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Saturday

LENSCRATCH: Mixtape by Aline Smithson

Photograph © Jerry Atnip

I've been L E N S C R A T C H E D by the remarkable ALINE SMITHSON. L E N S C R A T C H is considered one of the 10 Photography-related blogs you should be reading by Source Review, Wired.com, Rangefinder and InStyle Magazine. I'm honored to be included in Smithson's Mixtapes, profiling many distinguished professionals in the fine art photography world.

Aline writes: "Constructing today’s MIXTAPE was incredibly exciting–I learned in-depth about a friend and design icon who has traversed a remarkable photographic terrain, creating a legacy for excellence and creativity. Elizabeth Avedon's blog is a go-to destination for photographers, bringing her unique perspective to her observations and posts. I first met Elizabeth Avedon when she reviewed my work at Review Santa Fe. I had no idea what to expect, but it turned out that our twenty minutes was my favorite of the event. She was warm, funny, engaging, and encouraging. We kept in touch and several years later, when I was exhibiting in New York, she attended my opening. It was a reflection of the kind of person she is, someone who makes the extra effort to support, encourage, and educate. It was great to reunite with her in Chicago at the Filter Photo Festival this past fall."

"Elizabeth carries a lifetime of creative seeing, that combined with her exposure to the the greats of design and photography, add up to a remarkable ability to make her mark on all aspects of design that surround the photograph. Her down-to-earth generosity and unflagging enthusiasm for all things photographic make her a very special member of our community."

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THE ELIZABETH AVEDON MIXTAPE

L E N S C R A T C H

Wednesday

TOD PAPAGEORGE: Studio 54, 1978-1980

Studio 54, 1978-1980

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Studio 54, 1978-1980

Galerie Thomas Zander presents its first exhibition of works by the American photographer Tod Papageorge. On view is a series of seventy black and white photographs from the legendary New York night club Studio 54, that was frequented by the likes of Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, Mick Jagger and Grace Jones. Papageorge always had his camera at hand and between 1978 and 1980 he celebrated with the rich and beautiful, the artists and starlets; even today viewers can witness the eccentric and hedonistic party nights in his photographs. They revive the feeling of the disco era and express a profoundly urban spirit of directness, which condensed in New York at that time.

In the 1960s, Tod Papageorge had a close artistic exchange with Garry Winogrand. Both artists used to meet almost daily to take photographs in the streets of New York. During those days, some icons of photography history originated, which with their intuition and intensity exude a unique kind of lightness. As a recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships and a teaching professor at Yale University for many years, Papageorge’s influence on contemporary photography can hardly be overestimated.

Renowned photographers like Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Gregory Crewdson, or Anna Gaskell were among his students. All of Tod Papageorge’s works are based on an interest in people as social beings. Be it his images of sports stadiums, his photographs of everyday life in Central Park or the images from Studio 54, in all his photographs people are characterized through the group they belong to and their experience of the present moment. His works are intense portraits of America marked by a powerful authenticity. (text courtesy of Galerie Thomas Zander)

TOD PAPAGEORGE / STUDIO 54

January 25 – April 12, 2014

Galerie Thomas Zander
Schönhauser Str. 8, 50968 Köln, Germany

Monday

GARRY WINOGRAND: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Exhibition and Catalog

John F. Kennedy, Democratic National Convention, Los Angeles, 1960

Garry Winogrand, posthumous digital reproduction from original negative; Garry Winogrand Archive, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona; © The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Los Angeles, ca.1980–83

Garry Winogrand, gelatin silver print; Garry Winogrand Archive, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona; © The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Richard Nixon Campaign Rally, New York, 1960

Los Angeles, 1980–83

Garry Winogrand Exhibition Catalog

(SFMOMA/Yale University Press)

The exhibition catalog, Garry Winogrand, serves as the most comprehensive volume on Winogrand to date and the only compendium of the artist's work. Five new essays, and nearly 400 plates, trace the artist's working methods, major themes, and create a collective portrait of Winogrand.

Leo Rubinfien provides an extensive overview of Winogrand's life and career. Erin O'Toole, assistant curator of photography at SFMOMA, considers the Winogrand archive at the Center for Creative Photography and matters relating to the ethics of posthumous printing of the artist's work; she also writes introductions to each of the three main plate sections. Sarah Greenough, senior curator of photographs at the National Gallery of Art, considers the magazine culture that gave birth to Winogrand's early work and the emergence of the museum context that fostered his ideas in the 1960s. Sandra S. Phillips, senior curator of photography at SFMOMA, writes about Winogrand's relevance for contemporary photography. Susan Kismaric, former curator in the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, offers a selected bibliography, full chronology, and annotated checklist that enables the reader to tell who among Winogrand's various editors has been responsible for the selection of any photograph, and when.

Photographer Tod Papageorge, the Walker Evans Professor of Photography in the School of Art at Yale University, and Winogrand's intimate friend, protégé, and sometime editor, writes of his early years in New York when he met Garry Winogrand and became one of his closest friends. Papageorge curated Winogrand's 1977 exhibition, Public Relations, at the Museum of Modern Art. His own photographs have been exhibited and published widely, including Passing Through Eden (Steidl, 2007), American Sports, 1970: Or How We Spent the War in Vietnam (Aperture, 2007), OPERA Città. (Punctum Editions, Rome 2010) and Core Curriculum: Writings on Photography (Aperture, 2011).

In the exhibition catalog Papageorge writes, "Before long, Garry and I were photographing together....moving up and down Fifth Avenue between Forty-second and Fifty-seventh Street, picture scouts loosely spread along a block or two, the flow of office workers, shoppers, tourists, cops, would-be world-beaters, and les belles dames sans merci presenting whole schools of potential actor-subjects shifting, rushing, pushing, expressing incalculable, evanescent patterns of gesture and movement. We each found a place in it, and a reason. For me, the challenge was to stop and hold that streaming flood of movement in a clear, coherent picture. Garry, for his part, was more compelled by the exchanges and story lines of the human comedy he encountered (and, with his rapid eye and mind, intuited or imagined), bringing his camera so quickly to and from his eye that he appeared to be scratching his nose. Up and down, back and forth: we were all in it nearly every moment, but Garry Winogrand was in it and in his very element."

GARRY WINOGRAND

SF MOMA Exhibition

March 9 - June 2, 2013

Tod Papageorge Artist Talk filmed at SFMOMA March 7, 2013

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GARRY WINOGRAND

Exhibition Catalog

Edited by Leo Rubinfien; With contributions by Sarah Greenough, Susan Kismaric, Erin O'Toole, Tod Papageorge, and Sandra S. Phillips

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Garry Winogrand: Co-organized by SFMOMA and the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. San Francisco March 9–June 2, 2013 (Source: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art http://www.sfmoma.org)

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