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People, Places, Power: Reframing the American Landscape - show and lecture in NC

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On January 14th at 7pm, Mitch Epstein and Susan Bell will speak about their not-for-profit project "What is American Power?", a new billboard and website campaign launched in the spring of 2010 that encourages responsible energy production and consumption. The lecture is presented in conjunction with the opening exhibition "People, Places, Power: Reframing the American Landscape," which is open January 14 through February 25, 2011. Davidson College in North Carolina presents the exhibition, which "focuses on the complex interplay between personal, social, political, and economic forces in rural and urban America. Among the various themes within the exhibition, attention will be focused on the necessary yet uneasy relationship that exists between power utilities and the public they serve. This topic is important to the town of Davidson–in which Davidson College is located–because it borders Lake Norman, a man-made lake created by the Cowans Ford Dam. The hydroelectric facility is owned and operated by Duke Energy, a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Charlotte, just twenty miles south of Davidson. Several other hydroelectric, nuclear, and coal burning facilities are located in communities surrounding the city." The exhibition will feature works by contemporary photographers including Mitch Epstein, Victoria Sambunaris, David Hilliard, Andrew Moore, Ryan McGinley, Lisa Kereszi, David Maisel, and others. The galleries are open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and weekends from noon to 4 p.m. Davidson College, Davidson, NC (near Charlotte) 209 Ridge Rd Davidson NC http://davidsoncollegeartgalleries.org/Lecture info: http://events.gatewaync.com/davidson-nc/events/show/153686045-artist-lec...

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Lisa Kereszi

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La habitación de los Sueños

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The weekly supplement Semenal to the newspaper El Pais in Spain continues to advocate for children's right around the world (see earlier post) this week with a portfolio from photographer James Mollison. The diptychs presented in the article come from Mollison's newest monograph called Where Children Sleep, published by Chris Boot in 2010. About the work Mollison states, "My thinking was that the bedroom pictures would be inscribed with the children's material and cultural circumstances; the details that inevitably mark people apart from each other."

 

What impressed me, not only about the series itself, but also about the layout in Semenal, was the amount of information communicated in such a simple way. Each diptych allows for a thorough assessment of an individual circumstance, and an opportunity to to think about the lives of other in comparison to your own. Also impressive were the twelve full pages, completely free of advertisements and other distractions, that were dedicated to the feature. Nice job El Pais.

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Lalla Essaydi's "Harem" at Edwynn Houk Gallery

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Fifteen photographs from Lalla Essaydi’s series, Harem, are now on view at Edwynn Houk Gallery through January 15, 2011. Essaydi (b. 1956) uses her work to acknowledge — and challenge — the conservative principles that shape the identity of Muslim women. Her work, which is grounded in art history, references artists from painter Jean Auguste Dominque Ingres to photographer Shirin Neshat. Photographed in the Moroccan palace Dar al Basha, Essaydi’s henna-covered models wear fabrics identical to the kaleidoscope patterns on the tile walls and floors. Each subject metaphorically emerges from the architecture and resembles, as the artist puts it, “the dangerous frontier where sacred law and pleasure collide.” This “collision,” mixed with iconographical references, is what makes Essaydi’s richly colored photographs pleasingly convoluted.

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Harem is now on view at Edwynn Houk Gallery through January 15, 2011.

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Katerina Seda at the Mori Art Museum

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November 27, 2010 - February 27, 2011 

Work by Czech artist Katerina Seda (b. 1977) is currently on view at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. Seda is interested in small things in daily life that appear either problematic or obvious. She runs projects in which she proposes games involving members of her family or people from small villages. These humorous projects often serve to encourage communication between people and they can also result in real solutions to problems.

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Mama, Don't Take My Kodachrome Away

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December 30, 2010 marks the last day any Kodachrome film, which was retired last year, will be processed anywhere, ever. The last stand was at Dwayne's Photo in Parsons, Kansas. The facilities will be dismantled and sold for scrap. Who knows? Maybe a bit of it will end up as a screw in an M9 or a 5D someday... If you missed the developing deadline, it's not too late to get a commemorative t-shirt. Only $12.95! RIP Kodachrome: 1935-2010 http://www.dwaynesphoto.com/

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