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The Electric Image in Windows on Main
pH Windows on Main
April 1st - 30th, 2008
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Chris Kitze's pictures, from his new book, The Electric Image, will be on display in powerHouse's Windows on Main for the month of April.
more info here!!!
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The Electric Image Exhibition
Scott Richards Contemporary Art
April 3rd - 26th, 2008
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Scott Richards Contemporary Art
251 Post Street suite 310 (btw Grant & Stockton)
San Francisco, Ca. 94108
T: 415-788-5588
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Dennis Balk Exhibition in Berlin
Galerie Neu, Berlin
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Dennis Balk's photographs from his powerHouse book, Colin De Land are showing in Berlin.
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Paola Gianturco Lecture & Signing
AAUW Conference Int'l Panel
April 6th, 2008
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Paola Gianturco is the author/photographer of Celebrating Women (powerHouse Books, 2004) and the coauthor/photographer of In Her Hands: Craftswomen Changing the World and ¡Viva Colores! A Salute to the Indomitable People of Guatemala (powerHouse Books, 2004 and 2006). Her work has been exhibited at the United States Senate, the United Nations, and the Field Museum, Chicago. Gianturco has served on the boards of International Nature & Cultural Adventures, the Association for Women’s Rights in Development, and the Crafts Center, which works with women artisans in 79 countries. She has co-taught Executive Institutes about Women and Leadership at Stanford University. Gianturco lives in Mill Valley, California.
AAUW Conference Int'l Panel
Doubletree Hotel
Sonoma, CA
11Am
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The Breaks Book Signing with Janette Beckman
Taschen, Beverly Hills
April 10, 2008
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In the fall of 1982, celebrated photographer of the British music scene Janette Beckman moved to New York City, where she found hip hop on the edge of explosion. After a decade underground, the DJs, MCs, b-boys, fly girls, and graff writers were finally getting their due from the downtown crowd. While trains were covered in graffiti and boomboxes were blasting on the corners, DJs were up in the clubs while the dancers rocked the floor. Artists were getting signed and local legends were born. And while others called hip hop a fad, Beckman knew better.
Signing at:
Taschen
354 N. Beverly Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
(310) 274-4300 |
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Flight Attendants Book Party
Mansion
April 10th, 2008
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Flying the friendly skies, Brian Finke began photographing flight attendants as he crisscrossed the country on Delta, JetBlue, Hawaiian, Hooters Air, Southwest, and Song airlines, before going abroad on Air France, Qantas, and British Airways. In London, he visited a flight attendant school, complete with emergency rafts and billowing smoke. Continuing east, Finke traveled Air Asia, Thai, Tiger, ANA, Japan, and Cathay Pacific. For the grand finale of his two-year trip, Finke traveled the illustrious Icelandair.
The result is Flight Attendants, a vibrant document of those adventurous souls who choose to work at 40,000 feet. Shot before, during, and after trips, at school and at home, Finke’s photographs capture the allure of this high-flying profession alongside the more quiet moments of the attendants’ daily lives. Like his previous collection of cheerleaders and football players, 2-4-6-8, Finke is drawn to the distinctive dynamics of team formation, focusing on uniformed individuals executing practiced actions—whether on the playing field or in the air. With an eye for the iconic as well as the absurd, Finke seamlessly blends the glamorous with the casual, offering a memorable look at the men and women of air travel.
Book party is at:
Mansion
530 W. 28th Street
New York NY
(212) 629-9000
Read more about the book.
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The Chelsea Hotel Book Signing
Barnes & Noble, NYC, 6th Ave. & 8th St.
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| Book signing and art installation for THE CHELSEA HOTEL at the Barnes & Noble on 6th Ave, 7:00 PM. |
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Shifting Landscapes Reception
at The powerHouse Arena
Tuesday, April 22, 2008, from 6–9pm
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Shifting Landscapes, timed with the release of Christopher LaMarca’s Forest Defenders: The Confrontational American Landscape and Earth Day 2008, features several prominent photographers’ perspectives on our environment and its natural and often unnatural states.
Addressing important environmental issues such as global warming, destruction of America’s old growth forests, waste, pollution, and the environmental effects of war on the landscape, Shifting Landscapes offers an opportunity to consider what nature and its magnitude evoke in us—some marvel, some destroy, some defend.
Shifting Landscapes features Olaf Otto Becker’s serene photographs of Greenland’s sprawling and rapidly melting glaciers; Edward Burtynsky’s vast and unimaginable mountainous landscape of discarded tires; Joshua Lutz’s intimate study of New Jersey’s dwindling natural wetlands and the landfills and poorly planned developments responsible for their destruction; Christopher LaMarca’s activist inspired documentary work with elusive forest defenders in majestic and vulnerable north western old growth forests; David Maisel’s bird’s eye perspective on a convergence of roadways in Los Angeles exposing abused desert terrain; and Simon Norfolk’s photographs of the detritus of decades of war in Afghanistan and Iraq as philosophical metaphors for the foolishness of pride, awe and the sublime, and the vanity of Empire.
View the exhibition online HERE.
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Maripolarama Exhibition
Deborah Colton Gallery, TX
Opens April 26, 2008
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Deborah Colton Gallery
500 Summer Street
Third Floor
Houston, Texas 77007 USA
Tel: 713 869 5151
Maripolarama
Photographs by: Maripol
During the early eighties New York’s Lower East Side was a hotbed of creative activity. Unknown artists were synthesizing the fertile ground at the legendary New York nightclubs Studio 54, the Mudd Club, Club 57, Palladium, and Danceteria while on their way to international fame and acclaim.
Among those emerging were Madonna (pictured above), Jean-Michel Basquiat, Grace Jones, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, Vincent Gallo, Anna Sui, Exene Cervenka, Kid Creole, and Diego Cortez, among many others. Maripol was part of a collective of artists, graffiti writers, street dancers, and performers who all thrived together in the explosive downtown eccentricity. As an image maker and stylist for Madonna during her “Like a Virgin” days, jewelry designer, art director, and producer Maripol relentlessly documented the movers and shakers of the early eighties scene through the lens of her instant Polaroid SX-70.
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Callas Kissed Me... Lenny Too!
Mansion New York
May 1, 2008, 8–9:30PM
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Book Launch: Callas Kissed Me... Lenny Too!
A critic's Memoir by John Gruen
Mansion New York
530 W. 28th Street (@10th Ave.), New York
RSVP: powerHouse@mansionnewyork.com |
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Norwegian Black Metal Exhibition/ Reception
Steven Kasher Gallery
May 9 — June 7
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Photographs by Peter Beste
Steven Kasher Gallery
521 W. 23rd St. (at 10th Ave.)
New York, NY
(212) 966-3978
“When we’re on the road, all we watch is VBS, and our favorite series is Norwegian Black Metal.”
—Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters
Documentary photographer Peter Beste has spent the last five years working in the milieu of the Norwegian black metal scene. This scene, with its notorious events of murder, church arson, and self-mythology, is absolutely sealed to outsiders. The international black metal fan base is one of the most devoted, fanatical, and proprietary in the world. Beste’s access and insight into this world is unprecedented and has yielded an amazing photographic journey, along with a very popular documentary series on VBS.tv, also available on YouTube. Beste, together with Johan Kugelberg, noted writer, editor, and collector of documentary photography, has brought the images into a hermeneutic narrative that makes for a compelling experience along the lines of Anders Petersen’s Café Lehmitz, Ed Van Der Elsken’s Love on the Left Bank, or William Klein’s Life Is Good and Good for You in New York.
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The New York Photo Festival
Comes to DUMBO & The powerHouse Arena
May 14 - 18
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powerHouse Books and VII Photo Agency have joined forces to launch the new, annual New York Photo Festival, the first international-level festival of photography to be based in the U.S.
The inaugural New York Photo Festival (May 14–May 18, 2008) promises to deliver a dynamic, high-quality event in what is arguably the photographic capital of the world. The festival will celebrate both contemporary photography and the creative, inspirational talents of the people who produce this work.
The New York Photo Festival will be headquartered in DUMBO, an off-the-beaten-track, but easily accessible neighborhood on the Brooklyn waterfront between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges.
World-Renowned Curators
The goal of the New York Photo Festival is to document the future of photography in all its forms. Our group of internationally-respected curators will deliver their personal vision of the newest and most important trends in contemporary photography, each exhibited in their own pavilion and promising to draw the attention of the entire photographic community.
Curators include Magnum photographer Martin Parr, The New York Times Magazine picture editor Kathy Ryan, Lesley A. Martin of the Aperture Foundation, and Tim Barber of tinyvices.com. |
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Ed Kashi Lecture
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
May 15
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George Eastman House
900 East Ave
Rochester, NY 14607
(585) 271-3361
Doors open: 5PM
Lecture: 6:06PM
Book signing: 7PM
Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta takes a graphic look at the profound cost of oil exploitation in West Africa. Featuring images by world-renowned photojournalist Ed Kashi and text by Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, prominent Nigerian journalists, human rights activists, and University of California at Berkeley professor Michael Watts, this book traces the 50-year history of Nigeria’s oil interests and the resulting environmental degradation and community conflicts that have plagued the region.
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