The aim of Photolucida’s Critical Mass program is to give exposure to emerging and mid-career photographers across the globe. In 2011, over 500 artists entered their work for the chance to be seen by over 200 professionals in the photography world. Curators, gallery directors, editors, and publishers juried the work of these artists, and through [...]
Leonard Zielaskiewicz At Smith Andersen
This exhibition of Leonard Zielaskiewicz’s rare vintage prints from the Golden Decade of the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute), are images that most of which have never been seen. Each silver gelatin contact print is unique, created while Zielaskiewicz attended CSFA from 1951 to 1954. Also on view for [...]
Luis Delgado-Qualtrough At Corden|Potts Gallery
Two of the images from Ojos Que Ven/Ojos Que No Ven appear in Hecho en Latino America, a seminal publication that resulted from the First Colloquium of Latin American Photography held in Mexico City in 1978. “This event and publication reflected an era Latin America and the rest of the world were going through,” Luis [...]
Susan Burnstine At Corden|Potts Gallery
Talking about her Absence of Being series, Susan says, “This ongoing series explores how the past remains with us, if only in shadows. These images capture fleeting memories, spotted from the corner of an eye-memories that vanish the moment we turn to really look. And yet they remain, for the imprint remains with us. We [...]
Passport Photo vs. My Vanity
My current passport photo sucks. It sucks so bad that I want to declare my passport stolen and get new one. The problem is that I’ve had my photo taken by more than one passport photographer who, when I reject the image they hand over to me, insist that I take it with a “What [...]
Photo Of The Day: Empty Beds
This week’s theme over in F-Stop is Empty Beds: Blankets, sheets, pillows tossed this way and that. The bed as a composition, a still life. When you get up in the morning and look back on your bed, is your impression still there? What does your bed say about you? Image at left: by Kimberly [...]
John Chiara At Haines Gallery
Crestmont at Coral presents recent photographic works emblematic of Chiara’s distinctive process. Working with hand-built cameras of various sizes, he diligently peruses his landscape, producing pictures that could not be made through traditional photographic methods. The exhibited works were primarily shot in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill, Excelsior, Diamond Heights and Mission districts using his 34 [...]
AIPAD Photography Show New York
The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) will hold the 32nd edition of The AIPAD Photography Show New York, one of the world’s most important annual photography events, March 29 – April 1, 2012, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. Seventy-five of the world’s leading fine art photography galleries will present [...]
Rebecca Goldfarb At Eli Ridgway Gallery
In the gallery project space, Rebecca Goldfarb presents Only ________., an exhibition of new photographic and installation work. Exploring the space between action and object, a series of intricately manipulated photographs and spatial interventions depict lines that create ephemeral thresholds, appear to unravel, and ultimately lead in unknown directions. Figures and boundless masses of string [...]
Yves Trémorin At Centre Photographique d’Île-de-France
The photographs of Yves Trémorin suggest a sensual, vibrant, but also raw and violent translation of the historical and contemporary myths of Mexican culture. In 2009, during a residency in Mexico, Yves Trémorin – a figure in the French art scene – began a collection of images, a form of surreal inventory that questions the [...]
