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The Favorite Photo Shows of 2012

Posted on December 17th, 2012

Jerome Liebling

I suppose that we all look back at this point and try to remember the high points of the year. And so I asked around and these were the photo shows that people loved in 2012. The great thing about this list is that it spans the world. Enjoy!

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Just say “YES”

Posted on November 29th, 2012

How do you handle adversity?  Do you lie down and accept the bad turn of events or do you mobilize against it and try things you’ve been afraid of to reap possible benefits?  Your choice can be the difference between success and failure. In their APA presented talk, Recovery Act: The Restoration and Reinvention of a Photography Career, William and Susan Brinson give us a look at what can happen when you have nowhere to go but up. It was…

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Chasing Ice: The Memory of Landscape

Posted on November 19th, 2012

Chasing Ice glacier melt

  Until Hurricane Sandy came through New York, I always thought about climate change in a disassociated kind of way. It is obvious to me that it is a serious problem with catastrophic effects, but I don’t think I really grasped the full extent of what is happening to the planet until I saw “Chasing Ice,” Jeff Orlowski’s film about James Balog’s project recording the disappearing glaciers. I first came to photographer James Balog’s work when I saw his book, “Anima,”…

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Shenandoah

Posted on November 15th, 2012

Photo of Crystal Dillman by Jacqueline Dormer, The Republican Herald. In David Turnley’s “Shenandoah“, a small town in eastern Pennsylvania is forced to deal with the fallout of a murder committed by several of its HS football players.  In July 2008, Luis Ramirez, an undocumented immigrant from Iramurco, Mexico was chased, beaten, stomped and killed by a group of white teenage boys shouting racial slurs.  The local police in the tight-knit town covered up the crime, not even investigating it.…

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VII Uncomissioned

Posted on November 12th, 2012

On The Line

The DOCNYC festival is back, and this year there are more documentaries about and by photographers.  I’ve seen the first ones, VII Uncomissioned and Men At Lunch, one a selection of shorts by members of the photo agency, and the other dissecting the iconic photo of men sitting on a steel beam high above Manhattan in 1932. VII Uncomissioned begins with “On The Line,” a piece by Ashley Gilbertson about a suicide hotline for veterans.  Using still images and audio,…

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After the Hurricane

Posted on November 8th, 2012

I was going to post a PhotoPlus Expo wrap up last week, but I, like many other New Yorkers lost power for nearly five days (and we know so many others STILL don’t have power).  So it makes no sense now.  What I would like to talk about it how to keep going when things seem bleak. We all lost whatever momentum we had prior to the storm, and in dealing with basic survival needs it was easy to feel…

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Magic Hour Foundation

Posted on October 28th, 2012

Guest blogger Giovanni Savino writes: After binging for several hours in the photo-technological kaleidoscope of the PDN PhotoPlus Expo at the Javits Centre I was starting to feel a bit dizzy.  So I decided to head home to digest the great quantity of new gizmos I had the opportunity to admire, and to reflect on several evolutionary aspects of the business of photography I kept seeing all day long, while bouncing with the crowds, not being able to find the…

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Portrait Sales: Increasing the Revenue, Decreasing the Awkwardness

Posted on October 28th, 2012

By Sari Goodfriend, guest blogger: Ok, wow what a different mindset from the art world panel on portfolio reviews that I just went to. Tamara starts off by talking about Push vs. pull marketing. Use a combination: PUSH – reaching out very directly. Hand out cards, be a presence at a a charity where you do on-site portraits, and then have people to sign up for sessions. A good market is to get photos of couples together. They never usually have…

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How to Survive and Conquer at Portfolio Reviews

Posted on October 27th, 2012

This first post from Sari Goodfriend: Featuring Ariel Shanberg from Woodstock Center for Photography, Mary Virginia  Swanson, Independent Consultant, W.M. Hunt, Curator, Gallerist and Collector I wasn’t able to be at this panel from the beginning so when I walked in, Ariel was showing some work from Klea McKenna – unfolded paper airplanes that have been exposed to light. He told the audience that as  a reviewer, he wants to fall in love with a body of work and emphasized…

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