TBW Books

- Jörg posted a new interview today with Paul Schiek the owner of TBW Books. The interview is really great and after reading it Paul has become one of my favorite people in the photo world. The way he is able to keep his DIY ethic in this money hungry art world is something I really look up to. Read the interview here. The new subscription series has an amazing lineup featuring Todd Hido, Marianne Mueller, Abner Nolan, and Alec Soth. You get four books for $100, you can't beat that, I'll be placing my order tomorrow.

Love this quote:
"It would kill me to know that there is some kid out there searching for something real, and stumble across these books and have them priced so crazy they couldn't afford them. That would sort of crush me... I was and still am that kid." - Paul Schiek

Bond Street Gallery Closes Its Doors

© Justin James Reed
"Dear Friends,
I regret to inform you that effective Saturday, November 1, 2008, 6PM, BOND STREET GALLERY will close its doors. Though short lived, I had a great time working with so many talented photographers and curators. With that said, I would like thank you for supporting the gallery and its vision to promote new art photography.
On to the next opportunity,
a."

- Just got that email from Humble Arts. What a bummer the gallery basically just opened and had some really great shows during its short time. Be sure to go see the Revisiting America show before Satuday, it features the work of Timothy Briner, Jon Feinstein, Matthew Gamber, Justin James Reed, Angie Smith, Brian Ulrich and Michael Vahrenwald, I'm going to try and make it down on Friday.

Alana Celii

- Alana Celii's site has some really great work on it. She is a student at Parsons School of Design in New York and will be receiving her BFA this spring. Her projects Odd Sympathy and Untitled Landscapes are my favorite of her work, they both have a Stephen Shore quality to them. See more of her work here.



© Alana Celii

Santiago Mostyn

- Another Tiny Vices find, Santiago Mostyn's work is exceptional. Growing up in Trinidad & Tobago and Zimbabwe Santiago was a born traveler and his pictures really portray a nomadic life. I especially like his work from his travels down the Mississippi River, which he managed to do on a homemade raft he named Miss Rockaway Armada. See more of his work here, also you can see spreads and order his book All Most Heaven at TV Books here.



© Santiago Mostyn

Eric Copeland

Eric Copeland - Hermaphrodite
- Eric Copeland spends most of his time as a member of Black Dice. This is his first solo record it is just as interesting as the full outfit, but more minimal. He achieves the sounds on this record in the same way as he does with Black Dice; samples, loops, and lots of effects. I have been obsessed with this record lately and highly recommend it. Buy it over at Paw Tracks.

Dash Snow

- Dash Snow's photographs show the gritty, seedy, and taboo of the alternative side of society with an intimacy rarely shown. His polaroids of the perpetual "night before" show sex, drugs, and violence with complete honesty, creating a way of viewing his own life as purely an observer. His work could be compared to that of Nan Goldin and Larry Clark because of there uncomfortable subject matter but brings it to a new generation. See more of his work on Tiny Vices here.



© Dash Snow

Colin Kopp

- I found Colin Kopp's work on the Hey, Hot Shot! blog. He is one of Jen's "contenders" and my favorite of the work she has posted thus far. Kopp's photos of the working class in the midwest, as he describes them "mine the austere beauty and sensibility of "home"." His work is currently on view in a group show celebrating the 2007 winners of the Jerome Fellowships at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. If your not going to be in Minneapolis you can see more of his work on his site here.



© Colin Kopp

Thobias Fäldt

- Thobias Fäldt is a Swedish photographer, his photos are snapshots but he seems to be doing a lot more with the medium then the new crop of photographers shooting this way. The pictures all have this strange aura and are compositionally fantastic. His series Year One will be published by Steidl this winter and I can't wait to get a copy. He will also be featured in the first issue of Lay Flat, Shane Lavalette's new publication devoted to promoting the best in contemporary photography and writing on the medium(if you can, donate some money to get the publication of its feet). See more of his work here and read an interview with him from the I ♥ Photograph blog here.



© Thobias Fäldt

Malick Sidibe

- Malick Sidibe owns a photo studio in Mali, throughout the 60's and 70's he took pictures of the youth of the city, both in posed portraits and snapshots. Like many other African artists of the time, Sidibe didn't begin to get recognition out of his country until the '90s. While I was interning I picked up one of his prints from another gallery for a group show. I studied the little 5x7 picture in its brightly painted frame for a while not really understanding its importance. It wasn't until I saw that picture in the context of the rest of his work that I got it and understood why Malick Sidibe is one of the most important photographers from the African continent. See more of his work here and here and read an interview with him from Index Magazine here.



© Malick Sidibe

Lucky Dragons

Lucky Dragons - Hawks and Sparrows
"Having recorded five albums as limited edition CD-Rs, Fischbeck now divides his time between touring and posting music on his interactive website. The ongoing Hawks and Sparrows (2003– ), originally released as CD-Rs individually packaged with “the first flowers of spring,” has evolved into a free-download project. Its eighteen tracks are based on field recordings taken at four antiwar gatherings from which he removed all language-based rhetoric, leaving processed samples of “pauses, whistles and yells, drums, sirens, helicopters, electric hums, boom boxes” and more. The unexpectedly musical results range from meditational, harmonic loops of sound to crackling distortion that recalls music played through blown speakers." - The Whitney Museum of Art



- This is a 5 minute documentary of Luke Fishbeck(Lucky Dragons) describing his project "Make A Baby", quite an interesting watch. "Make A Baby is the generic term for an ongoing series of experiments into the possibilities of using skin contact between performers as a means of transmitting and controlling data and creating a positive social environment."

Jan Banning

- Jan Banning's Bureaucratics series is great as well as his Malawi series. He has published seven books and has won numerous awards such as the Dutch Icodo Award in 2003 for his series Traces of War and the World Press Photo 2004 Portrait Stories Award. The Bureaucratics series is going to be published soon by Nazraeli, the third project personally selected by Martin Parr. See more of his work here.



© Jan Banning

Poppy de Villeneuve

- I read about Poppy de Villeneuve's work last week courtesy of Jörg's blog. His photos are quite moody and beautiful. I especially like his series American Mornings, see that as well as his other great series The Strangers on his site here. Also here is an interview with him from Art Rabbit about his show opening in London.



© Poppy de Villeneuve

Christopher Picon

- I met Chris in San Francisco during my cross country trip this summer and we talked photo over amazing burritos in the Mission. He is a recent graduate of the California College of Arts and takes some beautifully awkward portraits. See more of his work here, both of his projects are great I just wish there was more work on his site.



© Chris Picon

Doug Dubois

- Doug Dubois' series of family photographs are really amazing and some of my favorite work that I have recently been exposed to. He started the Family Photos series in 1984 and shot the project until 1992, then in 1999 he picked the project up again and continued shooting for the next five years. The photos show the closeness and turmoils of a family growing over 20+ years in beautiful saturated colors. See more of his work here, I suggest looking through all of the photos from Family Photos and Avella but skipping the majority of his Portrait Series. Also here is an interview that Alec Soth did with Doug over on the Conscientious blog.



© Doug Dubois

Double Exposure: Alec Soth & Elliott Erwitt

© Alec Soth
Friday October 24th
6 - 7:30 pm
"Join two contemporary masters/acclaimed photographers Elliott Erwitt and Alec Soth of Magnum Photos as they share work from their archives and current projects. Erwitt and Soth will discuss their unique approaches to photojournalism, fine art and documentary work. Don¹t miss this memorable special event, brought to you by HP, which starts right after the exhibit hall and the afternoon seminars end."

- If your going to the PDN Photoplus International Conference and Expo in New York next week, this is surely something not to miss. I am going to try my hardest to make it to this one, but the fees are kind of steep. Find out more information here.


© Elliott Erwitt

Todd Hido

- Todd Hido is one of my favorite photographers right now, he has made a name for himself capturing unsettling images of the suburban landscape. In his work he uses only available natural light and takes long exposures. Although I love his landscapes, my favorite of his projects is his series of nude portraits. Here is a good interview with him from Seesaw Magazine and see more of his work here.



© Todd Hido

Johannes Twielemeier

- I heard about Johannes Twielemeier over on The Sonic Blog. His work shows abandoned and dilapidated buildings and are unbelievably beautiful. I especially like his series No Man's Land but all his work is exceptional. See more of it here.



© Johannes Twielemeier

Michal Chelbin

- While I was at Aperture the other night I was looking in the limited edition print room and was floored by the above Michal Chelbin print. The subject matter could easily be compared to Diane Arbus, from her artist statement "The images in this series are an attempt to capture human stories in everyday life, those that exist in the space between the odd and the ordinary. My images are almost always of people and they usually take the form of portraits. Most of the people I photograph have something in common; they are not the mainstream, and many of them are small town performers (For example, they could be dwarfs in a theatre play, ball room dancers or young contortionists)," but her beautiful color palette reminds me a lot of Alec Soth. She has a show up at Andrea Meislin Gallery until October 18th and urge you to go take a look. See more of her work here.



© Michal Chelbin

Wooden Wand

Wooden Wand - More From The Mountain 7"
- More From The Mountain features one of James Jackson Toth's final transmissions under the Wooden Wand moniker. Side A has been a live favorite for some time, while Side B's "Guru Femmes" is a home recording of a long-retired tune entirely exclusive to this release. - Woodsist

Sarah Kalagvano

- Sarah is a good friend of mine and someone who shares my passion for photography. She is a student at the School of Visual Arts in New York and finally has her website up and running. Her photos have a very cinematic feel and give off the sense of youth in transition. She also shot a beautiful body of work in Israel that she doesn't have up on her site for some reason(e-mail her and tell her to put it up!). I remember modeling for Sarah for one of her first photo classes and have seen her grow from her humble beginnings. She works so hard and just keeps getting better and better, I can't wait to see what she does next. See more of her work here.



© Sarah Kalagvano

Art For Obama

www.artforobama.net