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Pacific Standard Light @ Artbook/PaperChase (11/29)

(Michael Light)

(Mike Slack)

Please join Book Soup and ARTBOOK | Paper Chase on Tuesday, November 29, from 7-9pm at the ARTBOOK | Paper Chase showroom for a spirited discussion about Southern California’s blasting and wondrous light with esteemed author and critic Lawrence Weschler and critically acclaimed photographers and bookmakers Mike Light and Mike Slack. Weschler will discuss his new book, Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative, in relation to Light and Slack’s Los Angeles imagery. Light will present aerial photographs of the city--in bright daylight and electrified darkness--from his new book, LA Day/LA Night. Slack will show his classic Polaroids of the west, along with a preview of some new digital work.

The event is free and open to the public, but you'll need to RSVP and will be accepted until capacity is reached at rsvp@dapinc.com.

Tuesday Nov. 29. 2011 7-9 pm

ARTBOOK | Paper Chase
7174 Sunset Boulevard
Hollywood.

Picture Black Friday

Well, once you get yourself full of turkey and settled in your sofa catching the game (my money is on Cowboys), you get a chance to catch your breath before Black Friday strikes. What does Black Friday have to do with photography ? The drama of thousands of people packing stores around the country is definitely a visual feast which is why there's a two year old photo competition called "Picture Black Friday". beginning this Friday Nov 26 and running to December 5th.

Picture Black Friday is a photojournalism project that aims to revisit and analyze a combination of forces- a worsening economy, financial desperation, excitement, fear, and a distinctly American cultural tradition- that culminate the morning after Thanksgiving.

More specifically, Picture Black Friday is an open call for photographers throughout the U.S. to go out and produce images that document Black Friday- how you see it, on your terms. Imagine this project as an open assignment: you have freedom to approach this event from any angle you wish, returning with single images or even a mini-project that documents Black Friday like no other media outlet will.

The judges are pretty impressive : Brian Ulrich, Ruben Natal San Miguel, Jon Feinstein, Shane Lavalette, Elizabeth Avedon and John Bennette. I've posted some of my favorites below.



Shawn Rocco


Sandy Carson

Christin Boggs

Fraction Magazine's Holiday Print Sale

Fraction Magazine's Holiday Print Sale just went live today and I already found three I love to get. Santa are you listening ???



Artist: Holly Lynton
Title: Drew Gardens, 2008
Edition: 100
Size: 11 x 14 inches
Media: c-print
Price: $100


Artist: Nadia Sablin
Title: Sisters Katie and Shelby
Edition: 50
Size: 8.5x11
Media: Archival Digital Print
Price: $77


Artist: Greer Muldowney
Title: Cheung Sha Wan, 2011
Edition: 50
Size: 8.5x11
Media: Archival inkjet print on Ilford Gold Fibre Silk
Price: $100.00

Giant Artist Book Release/Group Show (12/2)

Giant Artists invites you to come celebrate the release of their latest book "Collection" and a have a drink with us for the holidays. There will also be incredible art on the wall from all of the Giant roster including Aaron Ruell, Blake Marquis, David Black, David Calderly, Emily Shur, Glynis Selina Arban, Jeremy & Claire Weiss, Jess Holzworth, Keren Richter, Lauren Dukoff, Michael Scmelling, Peter Sutherland, RJ Shaugnessy, and Todd Cole.

Friday Dec 2, 2011 7-11 pm

This, Los Angeles
5906 N. Figueroa St.
Los Angeles, CA 90042.

Do Art Buyers Still Look at Direct Mail?

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Ana Serrano "Salon of Beauty"

Rice University Art Gallery's current exhibition "Salon of Beauty" features the beautiful handmade work of Los Angeles based Artist Ana Serrano. The film unveils the process required to bring Ana's previously small scale sculptures to nearly life size inside of Rice Gallery. The completed exhibition is a colorful landscape inspired by South L.A. neighborhoods where small and often overlooked details are playfully mixed together

"There are a lot of difficult things about the job–the business aspect is very challenging because our industry doesn’t really operate like a business. But what I think is hardest for me is how much is outside of my control. You need the right circumstances to take a good picture, and those don’t always align. I’m a perfectionist and I like to work hard to accomplish something, and photography is more devious than that. At the same time, this really pushes me to flexible, which I like."

- Peter Bohler (via)

TONIGHT : "Marilyn 12" exhibition @ Duncan Miller

If this reception seems familiar to you that is because there was already a reception back on Oct 21st. So if you happen to miss that one, no worries, there's another one tonight 7-9 pm. Also check out this recent Hollywood Reporter interview with photographer Lawrence Schiller who photographed Marilyn Monroe on set of her last film Somethings Gotta Give in 1962.

Duncan Miller Gallery
10959 Venice Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90034

A few photo competitions.....

Just a quick heads up that today is the last day to submit for Smashbox's Face/Off competition so you have till 11:59 pm tonight to get that in. $20 gets you up to 5 images and the judges range from photographers to creative directors. Check the fine print here. Top 50 selectied will be display at a bash at Smashbox Studios in WeHo as well as opportunity for your work to be display at photoLA as well as W Hotels in Westwood, Boston and New Orleans.



Speaking of photoLA, Nov. 25, 2011 is the deadline for the photoLA + Icon photo competition called Emerging Focus. $40 gets you submission of up to 5 images. Twenty of the finalists will have their work hung at photoLA 2012 and other prizes include Adobe products as well as from Icon.

Get to it !

ALL VISUAL LA Slideshow (11/19)

ALL VISUAL LA Slideshow!

Digital slideshow projection at The Forge - This Saturday, November 19, 2011. Come and enjoy sweet photos, videos, paintings, drawings, images...

Contributors:
Askew II, Mikey Baratta, A. Dola Baroni, Sven Barth, Eddie Chacon, Collins, Caitlin Dennis, Henry Diltz, Iuliana Ene, Stephanie Gonot, Emma Goo, Kathryna Hancock, Jon Walter Mocey-Hanton, Tyler Harrison, Skip Haswell II, Michael Hernandez, Kamil I, Mark King, Tattiya Kliengklom, Kaspar Felix Lerch, Kate Linthicum, Ashley Maclean, Michael McCraw, Stanley Moss, Jenny Rose Nuzzo, Lauren Randolph, Esteban Schimpf, Ryan Schude, Katie Shapiro, Cody Smith, Lloyd Stubber, Robert Tepiak, Alice Tomaselli, Sumeja Tulic, Nick Walker, Graham Walzer, James Whineray, Olivia Wright

ALL VISUAL LA is a digital slideshow projection of recent work from visual artists - curated and hosted by A. Dola Baroni & Henry Diltz

Oh, this looks pretty awesome ! The Forge, that studio rental spot over in Mt. Washington/Glassell Park is hosting a monthly slideshow event. I see a few photographers listed among the names so it be nice to see different visual mediums. There's a cash bar and they're asking for $5 donation. This Saturday 8 - 11 pm. By the way check out The Forge's website - it's been updated recently.

The Forge

2638 Huron

Los Angeles, CA 90065

What Buyer's Want: Michelle Stark of Men's Health

PhotoShelter CEO Allen Murabayashi chats with Michelle Stark, Senior Photo Editor from Men's Health Magazine, about how she hires photographers, emails that get her attention, websites she likes, and where they get all those sexy images from.

KC Ortiz “White Wash” (11/19)

On Saturday, November 19, graffiti artist POSE and photojournalist KC Ortiz will unveil Whitewash, their second exhibition at Known Gallery, and their most cohesive to date. For KC, Whitewash is about the people and places he photographs. “Much of the work I do covers those who have been ‘whitewashed,’ so to speak, by history and policy,” KC notes. “Specifically, the work I will be exhibiting is from West Papua and Burma. You won’t find either of those ‘nations’ on the map, as both have been essentially ‘whitewashed’ away. Burma has been renamed Myanmar by its ruling junta in order to establish the fantasy of a unified nation, and West Papua has been occupied by Indonesia since 1963 after a very controversial handover from the Dutch that was orchestrated by the United States.”

In the project room, KC will show 12 photographs of West Papua and Burma’s armed struggles. “The struggles are unified in their nature under the theme of resistance, the victimhood of whitewashing by the world at large, the beauty of their people, and the strength of the human spirit and dignity,” KC notes.

Opening reception
Saturday Nov. 19, 2011 8-11 pm

Known Gallery
441 North Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Closing this Weekend

Jocelyn Lee "Nowhere but Here" closing this Saturday Nov 19 @ Rose Gallery‎ 2525 Michigan Ave # G5 Santa Monica, CA 90404


Frida Kahlo: Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray closing this Sunday Nov 20 @ Fullerton Museum 301 N. Pomona Ave. Fullerton, CA 92832


Ira Meyer "The Poetry of Ice" closing this Sunday Nov 20 @ G2 Gallery 1503 Abbot Kinney Boulevard Venice, CA 90291

"I believe there are more people taking pictures now than before, but the big change is access. However, if you go through the shoeboxes of anyone who has passed away and left a legacy of prints and slides to be mulled over by their survivors, you realize that there have always been millions of images out there. All shot by different people of all the same things. What separates great photography now as it did then, was a unique vision. That will always stand out."

- Ivor Evans

Ugly Face Wednesday

... a series of Wednesday night guerilla art projects taking place every Wednesday in November: Ugly Face Wednesdays, curated by Stephanie Gonot. The first projection took place in the parking lot of Vons in Echo Park, Gonot’s home in Los Angeles – on a wall that she’s been interested in using for a while now. Using a projector attached to her car battery to display 10 foot faces, observers (many of whom had submitted their own uglies to be projected) lingered in the lot, giggling, chatting and munching on tacos from Taco Zone.

LADIG "An Evening with Peter Read Miller" (11/16)

Wednesday night, LADIG presents senior Sports Illustrated photographer Peter Read Miller, who will show images from his 30 years as a Sports Illustrated photographer and talk about the hows and whys of making a great sports photos. For non-members, this event is only $5 ! Register here.

Wed. Nov. 16, 2011 6-9 pm.

West Hollywood Park Auditorium
647 N San Vicente Blvd
West Hollywood, CA 90069

photoLA 2012 Seeking Volunteers

(photo via)

photo l.a. 2012 needs volunteers! Fill out this form and email it to wayne@photola.com or fax it to 323.937.5523. Here's an opportunity to help out at one of the largest photo-related art fairs in the country, now on their 21st year.

Wim Wenders discussion + book signing (11/18)

'When you travel a lot, and when you love to just wander around and get lost, you can end up in the strangest spots. I have a huge attraction to places. Already when I look at a map, the names of mountains, villages, rivers, lakes or landscape formations excite me, as long as I don't know them and have never been there ... I seem to have sharpened my sense of place for things that are out of place. Everybody turns right, because that's where it's interesting, I turn left where there is nothing! And sure enough, I soon stand in front of my sort of place. I don't know, it must be some sort of inbuilt radar that often directs me to places that are strangely quiet, or quietly strange"

Places, Strange and Quiet gathers photographs from 1983 to 2011 in a full panorama of Wenders' photography to date. He'll be at Book Soup this Friday to chat about his book as well as do a book signing.

November 18, 2011 4 pm

Book Soup
8818 West Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90069