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LAY FLAT 02: META RELEASE PARTY AND SIGNINGAT ICP, NEW YORK

Lay Flat and the International Center of Photography invite you to celebrate the release of Lay Flat 02: Meta. Friday, March 26th from 6–7:30pmFREE and open to the public! ICP Museum Store

International Center of Photography

1133 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10036

t: 212-857-9725 The editors and various contributors will be in attendance and available to sign copies of the publication. For more information or to purchase visit www.layflat.org

FotoFest presents the Thirteenth International Biennial for Photography and Photo-Related Art in Houston, Texas. The Biennial is currently underway and will be up until April 25th.

For the 2010 Biennial’s four principal exhibitions dedicated to Contemporary U.S. Photography, FotoFest has invited five curators to put together the exhibitions.

“The 2010 Biennial is a platform to show the different perspectives of photographic art being created today and the perspectives of a new generation of curators,” says FotoFest Creative Director Wendy Watriss. A fifth non-thematic exhibition, Discoveries of the Meeting Place, showcases outstanding U.S. and international work discovered at the FotoFest portfolio review at the previous Biennial.

Antarctic Dreams: Photographs by Murray Brott
Where: photo-eye Bookstore, 370 Garcia Street, Santa Fe, NM
When: Opening Reception, Friday, April 2nd, 2010 from 5-7pm
Contact: Melanie McWhorter
Phone: 505.988.5152 x 112

Email: melanie@photoeye.com
photo-eye Bookstore is pleased to host an exhibition and artist's reception for Antarctic Dreams: Photographs by Murray Brott on Friday, April 2nd, 2010 from 5 to 7 pm at photo-eye Bookstore, 370 Garcia Street, Santa Fe, NM. The exhibition will continue through Saturday, May 15th, 2010. Brott will be signing copies of his exhibition catalogue, Antarctica.

In 2008, Murray Brott traveled through the wild and treacherous Drake Passage, the South Shetland Islands, Deception Island, Bailey Head Beach, the Lemaire Channel, and many other locales in the remote region of Antarctica.

This trip’s resulting visual archive is not only a physical experience for Brott, but a pure, awe-inspiring emotional and aesthetic journey. The photographs capture the light and shapes that so entranced Brott in the Antarctic.

The project, now called Antarctic Dreams, is about beauty— a beauty that is apparent on the surface, yet resonates at a much deeper, emotional level. Tranquil, majestic, timeless, magnificent, peaceful, ethereal: these words only begin to scratch the surface in describing earth’s last frontier.

Murray Brott Bio:

Murray Brott started tinkering with his Dad's old Voigtlander camera when he was 18. The Chicago native was fascinated by the confluence of light, texture, shape and building elements he observed as an architecture student at the University of Oklahoma. Little did he know that a dozen years later, he would settle in Santa Fe, where a wonderland of mountains and sky would feed what has become his lifetime passion for photography and travel. Brott moved from his first Voigtlander to SLR film to medium format and recently adopted digital for his photo journey to Antarctica.

Following his passion for fine-art photography, Brott has studied under many masters and has practiced the art of fine-art platinum and digital printing. He has photographed on six continents, and his work resides in collections in the U.S. and Austrailia. Brott's work will be on exhibit at photo-eye Bookstore in Santa Fe in April 2010. Brott happily continues to call Santa Fe home, where he lives with his wife, Cindy, their dogs, Dakota and Gracie, and their cat, Mina.

The photo-eye Bookstore is located at 370 Garcia Street, Santa Fe, NM and is open Monday through Saturday, 10am to 6pm.

The AIPAD Photography Show New York.

March 18 - 21, 2010.

Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Ave 67th Street
New York, NY 10065

March 17, 2010
Gala Preview to benefit the John Szarkowski Fund, an endowment for photography acquisitions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
(To purchase Gala tickets, please visit www.moma.org/aipad2010.)

One of the most important international photography events, The AIPAD Photography Show New York, will be presented by the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) from March 18 through 21, 2010.

More than 70 of the world's leading fine art photography galleries will present a wide range of museum-quality work including contemporary, modern and 19th century photographs, as well as photo-based art, video and new media, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City.

The 30th edition of The AIPAD Photography Show New York will open with a Gala Preview on March 17 to benefit the John Szarkowski Fund, an endowment for photography acquisitions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

The AIPAD Photography Show New York is the longest running and foremost exhibition of fine art photography.

In The State of Ata artists Mike Mandel and Chantal Zakari examine the contemporary imagery of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkey’s revolutionary leader after World War I. From 1923 until his death in 1938, by the sheer force of his personality and his command of the military, he fashioned Turkish culture through the prism of his vision for a secular state. He created a new sense of nationalism, exiled the Sultan and diminished the power of religion by abolishing the Sunni Muslim Caliphate. The wearing of religious clothing was banned in public. In an effort to identify Turkey as a modern and Western state, Mustafa Kemal dropped the Arabic alphabet in favor of Latin characters, expanded secular public education, and new rights for women. He required that everyone adopt a last name and his became “Atatürk,” ancestor of all Turks.

Between 1997 and 2009, Mandel and Zakari, one American, the other Turkish, have employed the imagery of Atatürk to create a portrait of all sides of the body politic: the symbol of the secular revolutionary hero, the power of the state that resides with the military, and in opposition, the demands for renewed religious political expression symbolized by the Islamist scarf. The State of Ata weaves together the artists’ photographs of Turkish society, the public imagery and sculptural presence of Atatürk, documentation of their own interventions and performances, interviews, and a collection of archival and popular imagery. The book is conceived as a collection of books within books: a photo book, a schoolbook, a diary, and a fantasy album of military portraits.