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Young Photographer's Alliance Benefit Auction

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Announcing a benefit auction for The Young Photographers Alliance, a new nonprofit that supports photography students with scholarships, mentoring programs and internships. The silent auction held during the award ceremony has now been extended through an online auction, which is open for bidding through October 28. Artists include Henry Horenstein, Amy Arbus and others. Please take a moment to view and bid on the photographs available here: http://www.youngphotographersalliance.org/auction

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Don't miss Zoe Leonard's Niagara Falls postcard piece at Dia

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Through January 9th, 2011, a 2008 installation piece by Zoe Leonard is on view at Dia: Beacon in the Hudson Valley. I spent a lot of time looking at her obsessive collection of postcards of Niagara Falls, which covered a long wall in the otherwise mostly Minimalist, abstract art mecca. It was nice for me, a photographer, to get sucked in by figurative representation, after room after room of solemn, thoughtful, quiet conceptual art. (The other area I was able to get sucked into in the same way was the Bernd and Hilla Becher exhibition, also a serial suite of images.) The Leonard work consists of thousands of vintage postcards depicting Niagara Falls, arranged in several groupings of cards that are printed with exactly the same image. The identical picture is repeated, over and over again, but with the subtle gradations of tone as a major subject: the ink is sometimes yellowed, due to age and wear and tear, or due to press differences. Now I know who was bidding against me on postcards of Niagara, a place I visited to make pictures a few years ago. I learned that the Falls are a man-made tourist destination, not really a true "natural wonder" at all anymore, due to our efforts in harnessing of the water's power for electricity. The Falls get turned "off" over the winter, and we were there when the flip got switched to get it flowing again, just in time for the thaw and upcoming tourist season. Read more about the manufactured sublime in Ginger Strand's book, "Inventing Niagara," and see some of her own postcard collection here: http://www.gingerstrand.com/niagara_lost.htm Leonard's work explores the idea of mass-market tourism and the shaping of a location for that purpose and the idea of the souvenir and the photographic landscape tradition. Her postcards span the half-century from 1900-1950, and, according to the exhibition's curator: "... there is little evidence in Leonard’s ensemble of the far-reaching physical changes that the site underwent during this same period: inter alia, the amount of water flowing over the falls was reduced and regulated daily; certain outcroppings of rock, deemed dangerous, were blasted away; and erosion radically redrew the profile of the Horseshoe Falls. While the icon requires constancy to maintain its status as icon, the suppression in these reproductions of the site’s physical permutations contributes to the elision of the icon into cliché." From:http://www.diaart.org/exhibitions/introduction/8 Don't just wish you were here, visit: Dia:Beacon 3 Beekman Street Beacon, NY 12508 T: 845.440.0100

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FotoFest Paris Portfolio Reviews

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Daylight founders, Michael Itkoff and Taj Forer, will be giving portfolio reviews at FotoFest Paris, November 15-17.

Lens Culture FotoFest Paris 2010 will be 3 days of meetings and portfolio reviews with 120 photographers from around the world and 40 international photography experts.

The event offers all participants tremendous opportunities to share knowledge, connections and insights.

Participating photographers will get expert feedback about their work and have the possibility of getting editorial assignments, book publication contracts, art gallery representation, and feature articles in magazines, online and in print.

The one-to-one meetings with influential decision-makers in the photography field offer photographers opportunities to advance their career development and connect them to people who can help them with artistic and business goals.

In turn, the invited reviewers — museum curators, gallery owners, festival directors, publishers, representatives from photo agencies — will have the chance to discover new talent as well as the latest work of photographers who are already established.

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Gregory Crewdson closing reception and book signing

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GREGORY CREWDSON: SANCTUARY Book Signing + Closing Reception Student discount available on bks, and if you cannot attend, please call Gagosian Shop at 212.744.9200 to reserve a signed copy. Thursday, October 28, 2010 6 to 8 pm Gagosian Gallery, Madison Avenue 980 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10075 T. 212.744.2313

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Walker Evans photos from collection of Jessica Lange on view in New Orleans

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Walker Evans' Louisiana: Walker Evans Photographs From the Collection of Jessica Lange Through January 2, 2011 at the Ogden Museum | 925 Camp | New Orleans | LA | 70130 These photographs of New Orleans and Louisiana by Walker Evans (1903-1975) were produced while he toured the South during 1935 and 1936, taking photographs for the U.S. Government documenting the Depression and its affect on Americans and the change it wrought on society. http://www.ogdenmuseum.org/

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