Marine: 'We're Starting To Fall To The Wayside'

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/05/137480613/marine-were-starting-to-fall-to-the-wayside

The City of Levallois - Epson Photography Award is now calling for entries for its 2011 edition

Palestinians return to the site where Al Damun once stood. The village was destroyed in 1948. The "event" is organised by the Israeli association Zochrot. © Virginie Terrasse/Hans Lucas 2007-2009.

Read more: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2040949/eur10-grabs-photographic-award#ixzz1IkTFcW3y
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The annual prize rewards the work of a photographer, regardless of nationality, aged 35 or under. "Photographers must present their own new work, which has not been previously published or exhibited," say the organisers. "The selection panel will pay particular attention to the consistency of the artistic approach in its form and content."

The winner receives a €10,000 cash prize, as well as a monographic exhibition at the Photo Levallois festival in France.
Last year, the award went to Virginie Terrase for her work Palestine how?, which addresses the complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and explores the territorial issue at its heart.
To enter the competition, photographers must send a selection of at least 15 photographs with a supporting letter of 1000 words and a resume. For more information on how to enter, visit www.photo-levallois.org.

Jennifer Karady, At Denver University Myhren Gallery

Jennifer Karady: Soldier’s Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan
March 31 – May 1, 2011
Reception: Thursday, March 31, 5 – 8 pm
NEW TIME! Artist talk by Jennifer Karady in the gallery at 5 pm, at the beginning of the reception. Free

Inactive Duty Sergeant First Class Mike Sprouse, Virginia Army National Guard, veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, with wife Tammy and children, Peyton and Colin, Madison Heights, VA, August 2006
48”x 48” Chromogenic Color Print

Artist Jennifer Karady works with American veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to create images that tell their individual stories and address their difficulties in adjusting to civilian life.
In Country consists of twelve large-scale 48 x 48 inch color photographs accompanied by a short synopsis of the veteran’s story written in his or her own words. Each work is initiated by an extensive interview process with the soldier, followed by a collaboration in which the veteran reenacts a chosen moment from war within the safe space of his or her everyday environment, often surrounded by family and friends.
Unlike some photographers who use actors to stage narratives, Karady works with real veterans to dramatize their stories through metaphorical, narrative, and allegorical techniques. Through this process the artist makes visible the psychological impact of war—the nightmares and memories that soldiers continue to experience after returning home.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/06/arts/design/06veterans.html?ref=arts
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/07/02/128267052/jennifer-karady?print=1
http://jenniferkarady.com

REJECTED, at Wazee Union!

It’s official – there’s two Wazee Union locations open for this Second Saturday!
Wazee Union
3501 Wazee Street
Denver, CO 80216
Walnut Workshop
3525 Walnut Street
Denver CO 80205
Both locations will be filled with art, artists, music and good times! Check out the art of our new community members at the Walnut Workshop and the Month of Photography show, REJECTED, at Wazee Union!
Tons of free parking at both locations. No cover if you’re a student or if you’ve gotten your hands on one of the many free tix. If not, it’s $5 to get in and all proceeds go directly towards putting on bigger and better shows in the future!
The after party will be at Jake’s Food & Spirits with live music, awesome people and NO cover!
RSVP for the event on Facebook by clicking here.

“Double Diptych” Vertigo Art Space

Thursday, March 3, 6-9 pm: “Double Diptych” opens at Vertigo Art Space on Santa Fe Drive. The show, curated by yours truly, features eight of Denver’s very best artists, here working with photography in a diptych form. The show continues through April 15. Visit our blog or www.vertigoartspace.com for info.

SIGHT UNSEEN: International Photography by Blind Artists

SIGHT UNSEEN: International Photography by Blind Artists
March 3 – April 9, 2011
Opening reception: Thursday, March 3
Members and special guests 6-8pm
Public reception: 7-9pm

Live music by Eric Woods (guitar, mandolin, banjo) with Jeff Hooton (bass) from 6:30-8pm
Blind Photography Workshop
with Cinthea Fiss, MSCD Visiting Assistant Professor
Wednesday, March 23, 6pm
$20 ($15 MSCD students and CVA members)
Space is limited. Registration required.
DARK LIGHT: The Art of Blind Photographers
HBO Documentary
To be screened every First and Third Fridays during the exhibition at 4 and 6pm.
Sight Unseen, the first major exhibition of work by the world?s most accomplished blind photographers. The exhibition explores the idea that blind photographers can see in ways that sighted people cannot.

Many of us, with sight leading as our dominant sense, use images to build our world. Visual information is practical to our survival and yet it has become pervasive in our world. We respond to visual overload by shuttering and narrowing our perception, a form of self inflicted blindness, so as to rebalance our senses. But for the sight-impaired artists in this exhibition, making a photograph has provided new ways of
seeing.

These artists employ diverse strategies in their work. Some use the camera to
present their own inner visions. Some capture the outside world unfiltered with
a non-retinal photography of chance. And a number of the artists, legally blind
but retaining a limited, highly attenuated sight, photograph to capture the
outside world and bring it into their realm.

In his novel Blindness, José Saramago writes, "Perhaps only in a world of the
blind will things be what they truly are." Beethoven composed music without
the ability to hear, blind Milton and Homer conjured the landscapes of the
heavens and the underworld, and the artists of Sight Unseen further explore
our definitions of blindness and challenge us to reevaluate what it means to
see.

Artists:
Ralph Baker, New York, NY; Evgen Bavcar, Paris, France; Henry
Butler, New Orleans, LA; Pete Eckert, Sacramento, CA; Bruce Hall, Irvine, CA;
Annie Hesse, Paris, France; Rosita McKenzie, Edinburgh, Scotland; Gerardo
Nigenda, Oaxaca, México; Michael Richard, Los Angeles, CA; Seeing With
Photography Collective, New York, NY; Kurt Weston, Huntington Beach, CA;
Alice Wingwall, Berkeley, CA. Curated by Douglas McCulloh.

The CVA will be open until 8pm every First and Third Friday during the exhibition.
Exhibition Sponsor: Interstate Kitchen and Bar

Metro Now 2011

Metro Now Student exhibition 2011, curated by Bobby Walker and Laura Merage. 

The opening reception is at Emmanuel Gallery Feb 24th from 4-7pm with the award ceremony at 5pm

Emmanuel Gallery on the Auraria Campus Denver, CO 80217-3364

Gallery Info, Map and Directions

Chien-Chi Chang, Escape from north Korea

Chien-Chi Chang and Magnum In Motion Selected for 2011 Anthropographia Award for Human Rights in the Category of Multimedia.

http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essay/escape-north-korea

http://myhrengallery.wordpress.com/

Andy Warhol brought people together in ways that fueled their enthusiasm for art. His prowess at networking and finding commonalities inspired us to partner with Colorado organizations, artists, and collectors to create a show enriched by the enduring connections Warhol made when visiting Colorado in the late 70s and early 80s.
Warhol’s use of photography was the central tool that enabled both his art and social relations. Warhol in Colorado features the collection of Warhol Polaroids and silver prints gifted to the University of Denver by the Andy Warhol Foundation in 2008. Images by Colorado photographers (John Bonath, Valere Harris Shane, and Mark Sink) who photographed the artist in New York and Colorado in the 1980s, turn the camera on Warhol himself. Complimenting the photography are iconic hand-finished works by Warhol drawn from Colorado collections, such as complete sets of the 1972 Mao series and 1982 Myths series.
Warhol’s prolific output of works relating to music is represented in screen prints of Mick Jagger, record album covers, and magazines. Posters, works on video, and assorted ephemera add further context to Warhol’s Colorado connections.
Opening Event: “Warhol Happening” at the Cable Center, University of Denver campus. Thursday January 20, 6 – 11 pm. Visit Colorado Blacktie to book your tickets (event code “Warhol.”)

Month of Photography Denver 2011

http://monthofphotography.blogspot.com/

Picture this : a month of photography
MOP Denver

REDLINE and the Colorado photographic community invite you to celebrate photography for the Month of March, 2011.

MOP - Month of Photography Denver is a celebration of fine art photography through over 80 collaborative public events throughout Denver and the region for the month of March 2011. We are joining multiple museums galleries and schools surrounding fine art photography creating an exciting artistic and educational event for the city of Denver and the region.

The REDLINE art space will serve as the nerve center for the Month Photography, with exhibitions, lectures, workshops. For student and professional photographers there will be intensive portfolio reviews with galleries and museum directors, curators, photography collectors, teachers, critics, editors. Experts who can influence and advise on current marketing and offer image world knowledge.

Colorado Photographic Arts Center Exhibition at Edge Gallery

http://www.cpacphoto.org/
http://edgeart.org/

Opening night of CPAC Show, 7 Jan 2011

Metro State Art Faculty Exhibition January 7 - Febuary 19, 2011

http://www.metrostatecva.org/ 

Collective Nouns: MSCD Art Faculty Biennial
January 7 – February 19, 2011

Meet-the-Artists Friday, January 7
Members and special guest reception: 6-7pm
Public reception: 7-9pm

Faculty Lecture Series
February 1-3, 2011.
Click here for complete schedule.
The reception and lecture series are free and open to the public.

Representing the state’s largest art department, the MSCD art faculty is made up of a diverse group of regional artists, working in an eclectic range of media. This exhibition features an ensemble of recent works from the faculty; artists from each area of the art department will be represented. Most works in the exhibition will be for sale.

In conjunction with the faculty exhibition, there will be a retrospective of work by former Metro State art professor E.C. Cunningham, held in two locations.

E.C. Cunningham: From Wichita to Nighthawk - A Retrospective in Two Parts

On October 1, 2010 the Department of Art lost long-term professor and renowned artist E.C. Cunningham. Professor Cunningham was the coordinator for the printmaking department at Metro State for 27 years. He will be greatly missed.

Part I: 1979 - 2008
Emmanuel Gallery, Auraria Campus
January 27 - February 10, 2011
Opening Reception:
Thursday, Jan. 27, 4-7pm

Part II: 2008 - 2010
Center for Visual Art
January 7 - February 19, 2011
Opening Reception:
Friday, Jan. 7, 7-9pm

A Color-Saturated Sun Sets on Kodachrome

Frame 34 from the last role of Kodachrome, Steve McCurry 2009

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/29/a-color-saturated-sun-sets-on-kodachrome/

Impossible Project PX 600

Jake At Close Range

Blog 12

Metro Center For Visual Art, BFA Thesis show, Fall 2010

Social crowding has always been something that bothers me, however on this night it was somewhat fun, maybe its because I know many of the people at the show. I took this photo because I found the mass of people looking at the artwork in the gallery to be interesting, as well as the way groups of people would congregate to talk about the work. 

The Right to Bear Arms?  December,  2010

 I found this on a sidewalk on the way to a train station in Denver, many questions came to me, why was this here, was it a real gun, or a toy, and if it was a toy how did the trash for a toy gun wind up on the sidewalk in the middle of an industrial area on the way to a train station. The spectical of guns and the American attraction to violence is somewhat interesting and this photo seems to speak about the nature of that consumer appeal to something that otherwise seems so violent, and by all means is not something you would want a child thinking about.

Homecoming, From: Recollections of War,  2010

Homecoming, when you arrive back in “the normal world” from a deployment over seas the emotions of returning home can make the soldier terrified by  the reality of the home that was once so common to him, as if the world you left at war is somehow more normal to you now than the place you once know so well.  

Merry Christmas World From Bethlehem Ghetto

Tara Todras, Associated Press

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/

This is where JR the winner of the 2011 TED Prize had posted some of his photos, you can still faintly see the large photos on the wall that separates Palestine and Israel.  The wall now reads "Merry Christmas World From Bethlehem Ghetto"

Need-to-Know (Basics)

The link below is an Art 21 Blog on art education that expresses many of the frustrations I have Had during my education and its lack of contemporary art. (This is not the case in all my classes but most of them) 

Need-to-Know (Basics)

"To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart. It's a way of life."

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON

Blog 11

AES-F Group, The Feast of Trimalchio

The Feast of Trimalchio,triumph of america, 2009

The Feast of Trimalchio, triumph of asia, 2009

The Feast of Trimalchio, arrvl of gldn boat, 2009

http://www.aes-group.org

The Feast of Trimalchio,

Trimalchio is a character in the Roman novel the Satyricon by Petronius. From the Middle Ages, first published in 1664 CE.

Trimalchio on Wikipedia


The Subject as Object : 
The Feast of Trimalchio makes the viewer question the human condition, the subjects of the photos are placed within the roles of desire, to own and posses the life we are told to live. Each of the people within the photo are allowing for a critique of that notion, they allow for the viewer to see how the comercial world exploits people and their desires in order to make money. The use of social stereotypes within the photographs allows for a better understanding of forced social image, many of the white people within the work are dressed in all white clothing, a color of leisure and wealth, while black and asian's are in traditional clothing. In some of the photos the stereotypes are reversed drawing attention the the placement of stereotypes in commercial advertisement.  Many of the people look as if they were pulled straight from an Izod commercial.  This work is a direct critique of this style of advertisement, and allows for the viewer to create their own ideas about commercialism and advertising.

Spectacles and illusions, photography and commodity culture
The work shown in The Feast of Trimalchio, both through the title and the images found within the body of work are commenting on the notions of wealth and power, and the ways in which people choose to live their lives when they have more money than they would ever need. The photographs have many stereotypes found within them, commenting on commercial advertisements for sporting apparel like Izod as well as flipping and intermixing racial stereotypes.  The people are shown within the idealized world that is so often shown in advertisement, as well as celebrity culture. This work is a direct comment on that life style and the desire to make your own life fit into this hyper real existence.
 
Sweet it is to Scan, Kodak and an imposed social role:
The work shown in The Feast of Trimalchio is in some ways commenting on the way commercialism and social class create this desire to fit a role. Much in the same way that Kodak told people how to live there lives during their free time and that a Kodak camera can deliver that life.  Now consumerist advertisement is telling you how to live through the clothing you wear and the car you own as well as a million other things you are told about who and how you should live. The work in this series is commenting on that pressure that is placed on people and the feelings created when you fulfill the role they are telling you to play.


New Work By James, November 2010

Highway 34, Brush Colorado, 2010

What does it mean to document something that is no longer new? Can you learn something new about the world from something old? I chose this photo because I think you can, you can learn about your history, and maybe something about your future. The things you think are great and new may some day lay in ruins lost in time. That place shows where you may have been or the life of someone you know. I chose this photo because I feel it shows a glimpse of what the world was like before.

Turkey Day America, 2010

How is it that something so good can look so bad, this was a great dinner and lunch and dinner again and maybe even again, but this is not how I think of thanksgiving. This photo is so telling of so many things, its family and life, necessity and gluttony, it is this wonderful family holiday that in the end leaves me laying on the couch watching football and yelling at myself about why I just ate a weeks worth the food in two hours. 

Puppy in a antique Ford, Road G. Yorke NE. 2010

I chose this photo because this has become something of a comical challenge between myself and a good friend of mine. We have for about the last half a year been passing back and forth this small greeting card with a picture of a dog on it, trying to one up each other with every new photograph in the process. We have the intention of publishing the work as a coffee table book some day in the future most likely when we feel this project has come to an end, as of now there are no deadlines.

Picture Black Friday

http://www.pictureblackfriday.org/main.html

Every year, Black Friday rings in the yearly holiday shopping season, with hundreds of thousands of people getting up before sunrise to queue for bargains and deals; when the doors are unlocked, the stores being besieged by their own customers. During Black Friday 2008, security guard Jdimytai Damour, was trampled to death by crazed shoppers as he tried to hold back bargain seekers at a Walmart in Long Island . Unfortunately, the uproar in the media was mostly over by the end of the initial weekend.

Picture Black Friday is a photojournalism project that aims to revisit and analyze a combination of forces- a worsening economy, financial desperation, excitement, fear, and a distinctly American cultural tradition- that culminate the morning after Thanksgiving.

More specifically, Picture Black Friday is an open call for photographers throughout the U.S. to go out and produce images that document Black Friday- how you see it, on your terms. Imagine this project as an open assignment: you have freedom to approach this event from any angle you wish, returning with single images or even a mini-project that documents Black Friday like no other media outlet will. A selection of these images will be exhibited on this site.

This project is the brainchild of New York City photographer John Saponara. In 2009 John partnered with Jake Stangel, founder of the photo resource site too much chocolate, and Joerg Colberg, creator of the photoblog, Conscientious, to launch Picture Black Friday.

For 2010 the Picture Black Friday project will be accepting submissions for one week, beginning on Sunday, November 28th through December 5th. Photographers can submit up to 5 of their best images of and about Black Friday. Photographers may submit a short statement to go along with their images.

After the initial submission period ends, the Picture Black Friday judges will make a concise selection of work to be featured in a gallery on this site.
Our jurors will then choose from that selection the best image(s) and the chosen photographer(s) will be featured and promoted through PBF and a variety of outlets in our network.

Our goal is to give photographers around the country an outlet to share their images on consumerism, the turbulent economic times we live in, and the mass hysteria that retailers and large corporations feed the American buying public all in search of the almighty dollar, be it paper or plastic.