Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Wed Briefs (5/5/10)

+ If you're down in OC, “15 Minutes of Fame: Portraits from Ansel Adams to Andy Warhol” open this past weekend over at the Orange County Museum of Art. Exhibition goes till Sept 19, 2010.
This spring, the Orange County Museum of Art showcases more than 175 works primarily from the museum’s significant collection of photography, including many that have never before been exhibited. 15 Minutes of Fame: Portraits from Ansel Adams to Andy Warhol explores a diverse range of photographic portraits from early modernism, to photographs of celebrities from the 1930s to 1960s, photojournalistic street photography from the 1960s, and contemporary portraiture.

Other photographers include Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, William Claxton, Andre Kertesz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Catherine Opie, and Edward Weston.

+ Interview with Andrew Eccles. Good read !

+ NPR Picture Show on The Art of Food Photography (which btw "Tasteful Pictures" is an exhibition currently @ the Getty)

+ Lomography Gallery Store LA is going on a their first LomoJourney to Farmer's Market over on Fairfax on may 23, 2010 11 am - 1 pm.

+ Jonas Lara Legal Defense Fund has a Facebook page. Discarted has an interview with Los Angeles photographer Jonas Lara and PDN reported about his incident with the LAPD last week.

+ 48 Hour Magazine . On May 7th, they'll announce an theme. Creators (writers, photographers, designers, etc) will have 24 hours to submit work. Then they spend 24 hours to put it together and in the end, there'll be a website as well as a magazine. Oh, this should be interesting ! Plus, they're streaming live for on Ustream.com too !
Writers and artists from some of your favorite publications like Rolling Stone, Wired, Dwell, Gizmodo, GOOD, Lapham's Quarterly, HiLoBrow, Fray, Paleofuture, and The Rumpus have already signed up. Mainly because we promise that this thing will be fun. No long commitments. No pitches. No grinding editing process. You make good stuff fast; we publish it with other good stuff.

+ Wanna win $200 gift certificate from Aperture ? Click here !

+ Oh, another photo competition - APA/NY 2010

+ Photoshelter's latest "Top 13 Ways To Piss Off A Photo Editor"

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