Over the July 4th weekend Joseph Bellows Gallery was featured in the Union Tribune for our newest showing: RE:VIEW. The article describes the vision behind RE:VIEW as a chance to showcase some of our more obscure treasures.
Click here to read James Chute's article in The San Diego Union Tribune
We are honored to announce that The Yale Center for British Art has just acquired a special edition copy of Paul Caponigro, On Prior Lane: A Firefly's Light; a collaboration between Joseph Bellows Gallery and Lumiere Press. Housing approximately 30,000 titles, the Center's collection of rare books and manuscripts focuses on material relating to the visual arts and cultural life in the United Kingdom and former British Empire from the sixteenth century to the present. In addition to the Yale Center for British Art, Paul Caponigro's work is included in the collections of the Guggenheim, Whitney and Norton Simon Museums as well as the Museum of New Mexico and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
In 2008, Joseph Bellows Gallery partnered with Lumiere Press to publish the book Paul Caponigro, On Prior Lane: A Firefly's Light. We have just received word that the prestigious American Institute of Graphic Arts has selected the book as one of the "50 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR." Founded in 1914, the AIGA has been choosing the year's "50 BEST" since the award was established in 1941. This year's honorees were chosen from over 800 entrants and we're thrilled that On Prior Lane: A Firefly's Light is the recipient of such distinguished praise. Issued in a hand-printed edition of just 225, the book features previously unpublished images along with iconic masterworks, interwoven through a masterful narrative by Michael Torosian. A total of twenty-three photographs are meticulously reproduced in ten micron stochastic tritone lithography on Utopia Premium paper and varnished. A very small special collector's edition (in sequence from A to Z) has been also been issued, each with a bound individual print. All copies have been signed by Paul Caponigro.
Click here to see Joni Sternbach's images in The New York Times
Maggie Taylor will be giving a lecture on her work on February 21st at 2:00 pm at the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego. For more information, please click here or call the museum at 619-238-7559, extension 236.
Museum of Photographic Arts
1649 El Prado
San Diego, CA 92101
Gallery artist Joanne Leonard's work Sad Dreams on Cold Mornings (Winter Dreams) 1971, will be on view in The View from Here, one of a series of exhibitions organized in honor of SFMOMA's 75th Anniversary. The show will be on view from January 16 - June 27, 2010. Click here for more information about the exhibition.
Alex Webb wins the "Premio Internacional de Fotografia Alcobendas" in Spain. The award goes to a documentary photographer who illustrated the rights of childhood throughout his/her career, and whose work "encourages reflection on the different and fascinating questions that characterize the global situation of childhood." Please click here for more information.
Join photographer Joni Sternbach on Saturday October 3 for a Tintype Photography Workshop.
Please click here for for more information.
Don't miss the final weeks of MoPA's critically acclaimed exhibition, Jo Whaley: The Theater of Insects, closing Sunday, September 27.
"... Whaley wants to take what is small in nature and give it grandeur in the studio. Her work is a visionary strain of still life, which takes inspiration from Joseph Cornell's boxes and collages." ~ Robert Pincus, San Diego Union-Tribune, Night & Day, June 4, 2009.
The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) has announced that The AIPAD Photography Show New York, one of the most important international photography events, will be held March 18 – 21, 2010, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. The 30th edition of the Show will open with a Gala Preview on March 17. Joseph Bellows Gallery will be exhibiting. www.aipad.com
Founded in 1979, AIPAD represents more than 120 of the world's leading galleries in fine art photography. The organization is dedicated to creating and maintaining the highest standards of scholarship and ethical practice in the business of exhibiting, buying and selling fine art photography.
Beth Dow's photographs are included in the exhibition Decadence and Decay: The Mansion Project at the Paul Robeson Galleries at Rutgers. The exhibition will be on view from September 17 - October 29, and will involve contemporary artists focusing on the mansion as both a physical and metaphorical site. Issues addressed in the works will be drawn from the rich history of the site and may include: notions of memory, ruination & decay, decadence & excess, urban planning, architecture, socially defined ideas of beauty, African-American culture, and immigration.
Len Jenshel and Diane Cooks' photographs of New York City's waterfront will be included in an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York. The exhibition, "The Edge of New York: Waterfront Photographs" will be on view at the museum from September 5 - November 29. Please click here for more information.
The narrative of Lumiere Press and the making of limited-edition books was the subject of a lecture by Michael Torosian at The Photographic Historical Society of Canada. Torosian discusses the new award-winning Paul Caponigro book On Prior Lane: A Firefly's Light.
Please click here to view the video of the lecture.
"Surfland: Photographs by Joni Sternbach" is on view at the Peabody Essex Museum through October 4.
For more information about the exhibition visit www.pem.org. Click here read a review of the show in The Boston Globe
Joseph Bellows Gallery is pleased to announce the publication of Paul Caponigro - On Prior Lane:
A Firefly's Light: The Cushing Interviews.
Edited with an Introduction by Michael Torosian - Published in conjunction with Lumiere Press
An acclaimed master of the medium, for more than fifty years Paul Caponigro has cultivated an extraordinary artistic vision. His primary subject matter – landscapes and still lifes – are transformed into metaphysical "equivalents"; the real world, acutely seen and rendered, becomes a transcendental domain.
On Prior Lane: A Firefly's Light is a synthesis of conversation and pictures, a meditation on the source of personal meaning and spiritual discovery.
Please click here for more information.
A recent review in The New Yorker of Debbie Flemming Caffery's photographs states, "Caffery's black-and-white photographs have always had an otherworldly cast—a sense that she's looking beyond the physical to something more ethereal. "The Spirit & the Flesh," the title of her new book of pictures from Mexico, though applicable to all her work, is especially appropriate for this exhibition of pictures from the book, many of them taken in brothels. Caffery's prostitutes—earthy, voluptuous, naked—are sometimes masked, sometimes in shadow, but, no matter how gloomy the setting, they appear burnished, luminous. There are echoes here of Brassaï, Bellocq, and Bravo, but Caffery conjures her own dark mysteries, and the work is as seductive and elusive as her subjects.
We are pleased to announce the publication of, Odyssey: The Photographs of Linda Connor. The new monograph is published by Chronicle Books and is available now. Linda Connor's exhibition by the same name will be traveling to the following venues:
Norton Photography Gallery, Phoenix Art Museum, November 30, 2008 - March 8, 2009
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, March 27 - June 21, 2009
Palm Springs Art Museum, December 12, 2009 - April 4, 2010
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, July 2 - October 10, 2010
Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona, November 20, 2010 - February 11, 2011
The Museum of Modern Art in New York has included David T. Hanson's work in a major photography exhibition, Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West. Curated by Eva Respini, Associate Curator of Photography at MoMA, the exhibition takes an unprecedented look at more than a century of changing myths and cultural attitudes about the American West. The exhibition includes over 130 photographs, from 1850 to the present, by nearly seventy photographers, including Robert Adams, John Baldessari, Robert Frank, Dorothea Lange, Timothy O'Sullivan, Cindy Sherman, Edward Weston, and Carleton E. Watkins. The exhibition is on view to the public from March 29–June 8, and will travel to the Seattle Art Museum in February-June, 2010. MoMA has also published a fully illustrated catalogue of the exhibition with an expansive essay by Eva Respini. More information on the exhibition and catalogue are available at www.moma.org.
The Museum of Modern Art has been a strong supporter of David Hanson's work over the years, exhibiting his work and purchasing it for the Museum's permanent collection. This show is Hanson's fifth exhibition at MoMA.
Hanson's photographs are also currently included in another traveling exhibition, Landscape/Land Use (organized by the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York) and is scheduled to be exhibited at the University of Michigan Museum in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the Summer of 2009.
Mark your calendars! The AIPAD Photography Show New York will be held from March 26 - March 29, 2009. More than 75 of the world's leading fine art photography galleries will present a wide range of museum quality work by contemporary, modern and 19th century masters at the Park Avenue Armory at 67th Street and Park Avenue in New York City. The 29th edition of The AIPAD Photography Show New York will open with a Gala Preview on March 25 to benefit the John Szarkowski Fund, an endowment for photography acquisitions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The AIPAD Photography Show New York is the longest running and foremost exhibition of fine art photography. Please visit us at booth 111. For more information please visit www.aipad.com.
Joseph Bellows Gallery will be featuring Bruce Davidson: Central Park in Platinum at The AIPAD Photography Show New York. Published in 2009 by Verso Editions Bruce Davidson, Central Park in Platinum contains twelve original, hand printed platinum prints and two free-standing platinum prints. This special edition is limited to 50 numbered and signed books. Each handcrafted book is a work of art in itself. The text is handset and letterpressed on 100% cotton-rag paper. Bruce Davidson, Central Park in Platinum is individually hand-bound and encased in a custom clamshell and solid walnut box. The portfolio includes two signed and numbered unbound prints suitable for framing.
We will be featuring all fourteen images at The AIPAD Photography Show New York at Booth 111. One print of each image will be available for individual sale. Do not miss this unique opportunity.
We are pleased to announce the Lou Stoumen Awards at the Museum of Photographic Arts,
San Diego. Michael Subotzky is this year's recipient and will receive a $40,000 award to continue his work. The award was based on his images which reveal prison life in South Africa. The award was established in 1991 and this is the fifth award honoring mid-career photographers. Former recipients included: Debbie Fleming Caffery, Kenro Izu, James Nachwey and Gary Schneider. The museum will also be showing The Naked Truth, a solo exhibition of Stoumen's photographs.
We are happy to announce that gallery artist Beth Dow was recently nominated for the Santa Fe Prize for Photography. The Santa Fe Prize for Photography recognizes and rewards a gifted and committed photographer who has completed, or is near completion of, a meaningful body of work. This prize was initiated to bring new work to light, and international photographers are eligible.
We are pleased to announce the publication of, Odyssey: The Photographs of Linda Connor. The new monograph is published by Chronicle Books and is available now. Linda Connor's exhibition by the same name will be traveling to the following venues:
Norton Photography Gallery, Phoenix Art Museum, November 30, 2008 - March 8, 2009
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, March 27 - June 21, 2009
Palm Springs Art Museum, December 12, 2009 - April 4, 2010
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, July 2 - October 10, 2010
Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona, November 20, 2010 - February 11, 2011
"The Theater of Insects: Photographs by Jo Whaley" is now on view at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. It will be on view from 9.a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays from Jan.4 through March 1, 2009. There will be a book signing of Jo Whaley's book The Theater of Insects, published by Chronicle books and a reception for the artist on Sunday, Jan.18, from 1:30 pm to 3 p.m. Please click here for more information.
Beth Dow recently was named the Grand Prize Winner in a contest for self-published books for her book In the Garden. The gallery will open a show of Dow's work from her series by the same name on January 23, 2008.
We are pleased to announce the publication of Virginia Beahan's new book CUBA: singing with bright tears. This volume represents the culmination of the artist's seven-year project photographing the social and political landscape of Cuba. There will be a book signing in New York at the INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY on Wednesday, Dec. 10, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. ICP is located at 1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street. Advance copies will be available.
Debbie Fleming Caffery has recently published a new book titled The Spirit and the Flesh. "For several years during the mid-1990s, Debbie Fleming Caffery spent time photographing in a small village in northeastern Mexico, living on the grounds of the local Catholic church, and using the tortilla shack as her studio. In Mexico, the church is the center of village life, and she became accustomed to the flow of life surrounding it, replete with celebrations of religious feasts and the mysteries and secrets of community life."
John Banasiak is named Distinguished Professor at the University of South Dakota. A professor of photography at The University since 1980, Banasiak has received more than 20 Research Catalyst Grants from USD's Office of Research, eight South Dakota Arts Council Artist Fellowship Awards, and over 40 national and international Jurors Awards. He has also been a part of more than 250 juried exhibitions. In 2004, Banasiak was the recipient of the Belbas-Larson Award at USD, the highest teaching award at the University. In 1992, he received the Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award for work in creative research.
Gallery artist Stephen Salmieri is featured in the current exhibition "Goodbye Coney Island" at the Brooklyn Museum. The exhibition presents more than 50 photographs of life, landmarks and attractions of Coney Island from the 1870s to the present.
To read more about the exhibition please visit http://www.brooklynmuseum.org.
Gallery artist Jack D. Teemer, Jr. was recently featured in the exhibition "Where we Live: Photographs of America from the Berman Collection" at The Getty.
To read more about the artist and the exhibition please visit http://www.getty.edu
Photographs from Diane Cook's series "On Ice" can be seen in the current exhibition "Photographs from the Ends of the Earth" at the Milwaukee Art Museum. The exhibition presents 65 photographs, dating from 1860 to the present day, of the Earth's polar regions. The exhibition will be on view through December 24, 2007. http://www.mam.org
The December issue of ARTnews includes a review of Chip Hooper's recent show, "New Zealand's South Pacific and Tasman Sea. To read the full review, please click on the following link. http://www.josephbellows.com/
Picturing Eden opens at the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego on September 15. Curated by Deborah Klochko, the exhibition features work by gallery artists HAN NGUYEN, J. JOHN PRIOLA, CAMILLE SOLYAGUA, JAYNE HINDS BIDAUT, JO WHALEY and JOHN PFAHL. For more information please visit www.mopa.org.
Mark your calendars! The Photography Show Miami will be held December 5 - 9, 2007.
More than 45 of the world's leading photography art galleries will present a wide range of museum-quality work by 19th century, modern and contemporary masters. The new art fair will run concurrently with Art Basel Miami Beach, as well as numerous other art fairs. The Photography Show Miami will open with an invitational preview on Tuesday, December 4, 2007.
For more information please visit www.aipad.com.
LACMA names a new photography curator. Charlotte Cotton, a British photography curator and writer who plunged into edgy contemporary projects after 12 years of curatorial work at the venerable Victoria & Albert Museum in London, has been appointed department head and curator of photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She will join the museum's staff June 1, succeeding the late Robert A. Sobieszek and interim department head Tim B. Wride.
Alex Webb: Istanbul: City of A Hundred Names will be exhibited at Sepia International in New York from June 14 - July 27, 2007. Opening Reception: June 13, 6 - 8 pm. Gallery Talk with the Artist, June 26, 6:30 - 8:30. For more information visit www.sepia.org.
Stephanie Hanor has been promoted to senior curator and head of the curatorial department at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Hanor, who has been a curator at the museum since 2001, has been responsible for several major exhibitions including the current "TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latin Art" and Alex Webb's 2003 exhibition, "Crossings: Photographs from the U.S.-Mexico Border."
We are pleased to announce that Alex Webb has received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Alex Webb Talk and Book Signings: Alex Webb will give two talks about his new Aperture monograph, Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names. Webb will discuss his interest in this city and its complex cultural history, as well as the richly layered visual vocabulary and unique palette that has come to identify his images as groundbreaking in both style and content.
Aperture Gallery
New York, NY
Tue. April 24th, 6:30 pm
Fotovision
Westfield San Francisco Centre, CA
Fri. April 27th, 4:30- 9 pm
Mark your calendars! The AIPAD Photography Show 2007 will be held April 12 - April 15, 2007 at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. For more information please visit www.aipad.com.
We are pleased to announce that four works from Jem Southam's Upton Pyne series will be included in the upcoming exhibition "Tell Me A Story: Narrative Photography Now" at the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego. The show will run January 20 - May 13, 2007. Jem Southam's Upton Pyne series is also currently featured at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University. The show will run through January 14, 2007.
PHOTO LA 2007 will be held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium January 19th - 21st. Please visit us at Booth 28. For fair hours and ticket information go to www.artfairsinc.com. In addition to our vintage offerings, the gallery will feature the work of contemporary photographers Virginia Beahan, Linda Connor, John Priola, and Jem Southam as well as rare early work by Robert Heinecken.
The gallery is pleased to announce the representation of J. John Priola.
Gallery artist Debbie Caffery has been awarded a Katrina Media Fellowship. The Open Society Institute awarded 31 media grants to filmmakers, radio and print journalists, and photographers in order to deepen understanding of Hurricane Katrina and the social issues associated with the storm. Caffery is to document the journey of displaced residents and the destruction of the Ninth Ward. For more information please visit www.soros.org.
Deborah Klochko has been named the new director of The Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego. The past four years, Klochko has been director of Visual Literacy, a consulting firm designed to further the interpretation and understanding of photography. She also works with Washington D.C.'s Smithsonian Photography Initiative, and was previously director of the Friends of Photography in San Francisco (1992-2001) and director of education for the California Museum of Photography of the University of California Riverside (1985-1992). Most recently, Klochko curated "Picturing Eden," currently at the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY. She is co-author of "Moment of Seeing: Minor White at the California School of Fine Arts," which will be published in the fall.
Gallery artists HAN NGUYEN, JO WHALEY, and JOHN PFAHL are among the 37 contemporary photographers included in the exhibition, Picturing Eden, now at the George Eastman House. Picturing Eden is on view from Januay 28 - September 4, 2006. www.eastmanhouse.org