Saturday Events

Tomorrow, you might as well start the day off at photoLA from 11 am to 7 pm over at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium before checking out the following shows in Santa Monica then head eastward to Miracle Mile then finish up in Downtown LA.



Special reception at Duncan Miller Projects from 6-9 pm with queen of the groupies Pamela des Barres and photographer Baron Wolman @ 1716 Ocean Park, Santa Monica CA 90405. Baron Wolman was Rolling Stone's first photographer.


Yamamoto Masao "KAWA=Flow" opening reception 5-7 pm @ Craig Krull Gallery Bergamot Station 2525 Michigan Avenue, Building B-3 90404 in Santa Monica.


Ron Jude "emmett" opening reception 6-8 pm @ Gallery Luisotti Bergamot Station: Gallery A-2 90404 in Santa Monica.


Tad Beck "Channels" opening reception 5-8 pm @ Samuel Freeman Bergamot Station 2525 Michigan Ave, STE B7 90404



+ Olaf Heine's "I Love You But I've Chosen Rock" opening reception @ Clark | Oshin at ICON 6-9 pm. 5450 Wilshire Boulevard 90036 in Miracle Mile.



+ KNOWN GALLERY and RVCA present the first solo photo exhibition by Keegan Gibbs "Open Space" opening reception @ 8-11 pm.441 North Fairfax Ave 90036


+ Michael Grecco "Naked Ambition" opening reception @ Edgar Varela Fine Arts 727 S. Spring Street, LA 90014 in downtown Los Angeles. This goes on from 6-10 pm,



+ James Stiles "Sexhibitionist" opening reception 6-10 pm at the new drkrm gallery in downtown LA at 727 S. Spring St. 90014.

Yup, that's all I got for Sat. If you have a photography exhibition coming up, please let me know : pixfeed@gmail.com

ASMP Strictly Business 3 (1/21-1/23)

ASMP is bringing Strictly Business 3 conference to Los Angeles on January 21-23, 2011 over in downtown LA at Sheraton. Interesting part is instead of a set list of classes, you are free to choose 6 of the following :

+The Agile Photographer: A Multimedia Partner for Business w/ Jay Kinghorn
+The Artist Lost and Found with Sean Kernan
+The Basics of Copyright, Licensing and Pricing with Susan Carr
+Breaking Into the Biz with Judy Herrmann
+Choose and Use Your Catalog Software with Peter Krogh
+Copyright Registration Workshop with Kate Baldwin and Jim Cavanaugh
+Essential Business Basics with Susan Carr, Judy Herrmann and Richard Kelly
+Essential Pre-production for Video: How to Budget, Quote and Crew Video Projects w/Richard Harrington
+Finding The Right Gallery For You with Thomas Werner
+Microstock: End of the world or a new world of opportunity? w/Ellen Boughn
+Multimedia & Digital Video Primer with Jay Kinghorn
+Secrets to Driving Traffic to Your Blog with Rosh Sillars
+Shooting Video with the HDSLR Cameras with Gail Mooney
+Stock Recipes with Shannon Fagan
+Strategic Estimating with Jeff Sedlik
+Strategic Reinvention with Judy Herrmann
+Thinking and Shooting in Motion with Gail Mooney
+What Makes a Successful Portfolio? with Ellen Boughn
+Work for Hire and Other Video Practices — Understanding Your Rights as a Video Creator w/Richard Harrington
+Your Website — Your Essential Marketing Tool with Blake Discher

In essence, you put together your own seminar. Private consultation is also available. To find out more, click here . Pricing right here. By the way, this is open to the public so even if you are not an ASMP member, you can take advantage of this though at a higher price than members.

Jan 21-23, 2011

Sheraton Los Angeles Downtown Hotel
711 S Hope St
Los Angeles, CA 90017

live from photoLA twitter....

@photoLAfair has been keeping up a steady stream of images and gallery locations today as they ready themselves for the opening reception tonight. Tickets are already sold out I imagine as the ticket link has mysteriously disappeared.

Fair opens daily from 11 am to 7 pm from Friday to Sunday with hours of 11 am to 6 pm on Monday. I'll see y'all at photoLA :)

Michael Grecco "Naked Ambition"

I worked very hard to catch the unguarded moment in the short amount of time I had with them. I would try to bond with them and make them feel important as soon as they walked into the space. That's not an insincere comment; my subjects are important to me when I am shooting them. The other thing I did would be to start explaining to people that it was a portrait and I wanted their eye contact and attention. Most of my subjects did not get that though, so I just started saying, "Not sexy, I don't want you sexy, just look at me." - Michael Grecco

The opening reception is actually this Saturday 6-10 pm at Edgar Varela Fine Arts gallery but you can get a sneak peek at it today Thursday Jan 13 as part of the Downtown Art Walk.


Edgar Varela Fine Arts (EVFA)
727 S. Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA 90014

Fraction Magazine Meetup @ LACMA (1/13)

Davis + Davis "Dream Big"

“In Japan, female workers average 44 percent of what males earn, the widest gender pay gap not only in Asia, but also among the "developed" countries of the world. While women hold 46% of the professional and technical jobs, they make up just 10% of the legislators, senior officials and managers. Most of the jobs available to women are in the food, retail and service industries, traditionally the lowest paying jobs.

The majority of Japanese women work, but maternity leave policies are such that 70% of women are, in effect, forced to resign from work when they get pregnant. Health Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa, in January of 2009, publicly described women as "baby-making machines," who were not keeping up with production.

In June of 2010, Davis & Davis visited Japan and took candid photographs of the most visible of women workers as they made food, sold food, drove buses and commuted to work in their work uniforms.

Last fall, former Miss Universe Japan, Kurara Chibana, gave this advice to Japanese women: “Dream big, build self-confidence, although in Japan, that can sometimes work against you. Then, because you fear rejection, you hide your passion and eventually, it becomes difficult to hold onto your beliefs and dreams. Establish yourself around people you can trust, like friends and family, until you become self-assured.’”

Part of the monthly Downtown Art Walk, held over at L2K Contemporary over on 990 N. Hill 90012. Artwalk is held 2nd Thursday over every month. January's artwalk is tomorrow.

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Lucie Foundation Grant

The Lucie Foundation is proud to support professionals and emerging talent who progress the art form of still photography through original subject matter, content, or processes. The Lucie Scholarship provides grants for projects and photographers with an ambitious scope for their work. One grant of $5,000 will be awarded to a professional photographer beginning a new project idea, or for a work in progress of a specific series. Also, one $2,500 grant will go to an emerging professional (student, graduate, or beginning professional) working on a portfolio or specific body of work. Our support of photography is broad, from photojournalism to fashion photography, digital to medium format, including every other category and subcategory. Our concern isn't with genre, but rather to support innovative work and to aid in artist visibility through exhibition of new work in a metropolitan gallery setting, as well as publication of the work in book format for increased exposure.

The Lucie Foundation is currently accepting applications for two cash grants - $5,000 (Professional photographer) and $2,500 (emerging photographer) to help fund projects. There's no genre, open to any category. Click here to find out more.

The deadline is Feb 15, 2011 and final winners announced March 16, 2011.

I myself am submitting for a personal project I've been planning to work on this year. As many of you, I find it hard to fund my personal work during these times. Everything I make seems to go to bills leaving me the choice of using credit cards to fund my previous project. One of the goals of this year is to look more into grants to fund my work.

Brian Finke "Most Muscular"

I consider myself a documentary photographer. In my pictures, there is a combination of capturing moments and setting up and controlling situations, but I like the storytelling aspect of it. Also, my original interest in photography was very documentary-driven, from the photographers that I first started to hear about and the photographs that I was drawn to. - Brian Finke

iPhone Polaroid Decal

Okay, this is making me wish I still have my iPhone ! $6 here.

photoLA opening reception + after party (1/13)

Opening reception to the 20th anniversary of photoLA is this Thursday, January 13, 2011, 6:00-9:00 p.m over at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. This event besides being a preview night also benefit for the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at LACMA. Honorary hosts are William Eggleston + Steve Shore. The $80 ticket includes cocktails & refreshments. Tickets available here.



The party then heads over to the Monsoon Cafe (1212 3rd St Promenade Santa Monica, CA 90401) where The Equation presents: photo l.a. + artLA projects AFTERPARTY from 9 pm to 1 am rsvp@theequation.org .

Close Up: Photographers At Work

In this Ovation TV original special, acclaimed photographers Albert Maysles, Sylvia Plachy, Andrew Moore and Timothy Greenfield-Sanders discuss the impact their work has on their lives and on culture as a whole.

The program airs this Thursday Jan 13 at 6 am / 10 am / 2 pm as well as this Sat the 15th at midnight on Ovation TV. Details here.

Mary Ellen Mark on Street Photography

Daniel Lupercio

Daniel Lupercio shot these using a Canon AF 35 ML made in 1982.

Kodak 1922 Kodachrome Film Test

The Two-Color Kodachrome Process was an attempt to bring natural lifelike colors to the screen through the photochemical method in a subtractive color system. First tests on the Two-Color Kodachrome Process were begun in late 1914. Shot with a dual-lens camera, the process recorded filtered images on black/white negative stock, then made black/white separation positives. The final prints were actually produced by bleaching and tanning a double-coated duplicate negative (made from the positive separations), then dyeing the emulsion green/blue on one side and red on the other. Combined they created a rather ethereal palette of hues.

Read the Kodak blog post about this here.

BBC : The Genius of Photography - Episode 6

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Le Book Connections - Los Angeles (1/20)

I hesitate to call Le Book Connections a trade show by any definition but think of it as more of a curated gathering of creatives in the fine art and commercial industry - branding managers, art directors, photographers, reps and more. Connections started in 2006 and there's been events in New York, London, Paris, Germany and finally, this year, we have Los Angeles on the list over at MILK Studios in Hollywood. I understand it is selective event and invitational only. So can anyone get me in ? ^^

Check out Le Book's Vimeo page about their past events as well as panels and Stockland Martel blog interview with Le Book’s Michael Kazam.


Jan 20, 2011 - 11:30 am to 8:30 pm

Hanger @ MILK Studios
844 Cole Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90038






Photo :
Whitney Kidder (2010 New York Connections) (top)
Sarah Jacobs (2010 New York Connections) (bottom)

Mathieu Young

BBC : The Genius of Photography - Episode 5

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BBC : The Genius of Photography - Episode 4

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New Direction 2011 : Moment of Being (1/12)

In creating their work, these photographers took chances. While many gallery shows are purely profit driven and often too safe in both content and form, I feel I took chances in “Moments of Being” with work that pushes the boundaries of what is normally called a portrait. - David Bram

Wall Space Santa Barbara will be exhibiting "New Directions 2011 : Moment of Being" curated by Fraction Magazine's David Bram. Those who are checking out the First Thursday Art Walk on Jan 6

Artist in the show : Leon Alesi, Steven Alverez, Steven Beckly, Jonathan Blaustein, Nan Brown, Liz Clayman, Daniel W Coburn, Andy Cook, Kristen Fecker Peroni, Jon Feinstein, Elizabeth Fleming, Martha Fleming Ives, Alan Gastelum, Flavie Guerrand, Max Hirshfeld, Ann Conway Jennings, Eddie Lanieri, Ash LaRose, Winky Lewis, Elizabeth Clark Libert, Holly Lynton, Coco Martin, Meridith Miller, Heather Musto, Russ Osterweil, Kate Pollard, Shawn Robinson, Haley Jane Samuelson, Michael Sebastian, Larysa Sendich, Katie Shapiro, Meera Margaret Singh, Tabitha Soren, Agnieszka Sosnowska, Amber Terranova, Chikara Umihara, Vikky Wilkes, Antonio Ysursa

Jan 6, 2011 5-8 pm First Thursday Art Walk (that's tonight)
Jan 12, 2011 6-8 pm opening reception (w/David Bram)

wall space santa barbara
113 w ortega st
santa barbara, ca 93101


Photos : Alan Gastelum / Haley Jane Samuelson / Martha Fleming-Ives

Thursday Events

+ Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe "Daufuskie Island" opens today at CAAM, the California African American Museum located over in Exposition Park, USC. Exhibition runs till June 5, 2011



+ IRIS Nights photographer lecture series kicks off tonight with Mark Fisher from 6:30-8:00 pm at Annenberg Space for Photography. Passes are already gone but there is a stand-by line available.



+ Tonight is the opening reception of Maya Mercer's "Lady Killers" at Stephen Cohen Gallery over on Beverly Blvd. 6-9 pm.

BBC : The Genius of Photography - Episode 3

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Botanicals: The Photography of Imogen Cunningham (1/9)

I was brought up on art. You see, my father thought I had a great hand at art and he sent me to art school on Saturdays. That was because of my report card in the general public schools. I had one teacher who was so keen about art. For instance, she put me in the back row -- the very last seat -- so that I could draw all the people in the room, if I wanted to, and when I had my lessons done. And those things influenced my father who said, "You should go to art school." So, on Saturday mornings I went to art school. I was always connected with it in some way or other. But he did not want me to become a photographer. Not on account of the money, which he knew nothing about. But he said, "Why should you go to school so long and just turn out a photographer?"

Opening this Sunday, Jan 9, 2011 at the Oceanside Museum of Art, visitors will have a chance to become acquainted with the black & white images of Imogen Cunningham. At 2 pm there'll be a gallery talk by Arthur Ollman, Director of the School of Art, Design and Art History, SDSU. The exhibition runs till May 22, 2011.

Preview reception on Jan 8th from 5-7 pm. OMA members free, public $10.

Oceanside Museum of Art
704 Pier View Way
Oceanside, CA 92054

LAT

Clyde Butcher "The Everglades in Black-and-White" (1/13)

Clyde Butcher has spent the last 25 years of his photographic career capturing the unique, primeval environment of the Everglades on large format film. He will share the journey that brought his life from a career in architecture to that of landscape photographer. Butcher’s photographs explore his personal relationship with the environment. For more than 40 years, he has captured his images with 8"x 10" and 11"x 14" view cameras. The lecture will include his adventures photographing the wilds of the Everglades ecosystem.

Cycle Butcher will be here in Los Angeles next Thursday to talk of his work as part of Annenberg Space for Photography's IRIS Nights lecture series. Passes become available today at noon and tomorrow at 9:30 am. for his Jan 13th talk.

Wednesday Briefs

Photo : Bryan Regan

+ Brewery Arts Complex Accepting New Colonists

+ Wanna help out at photoLA ? They are looking for volunteers.

+ CURRENTLY : Richard Avedon "Fashion, Stage and Screen" @ Palm Springs Museum of Art until Jan 30, 2011

+ Follower of Fraction Magazine ? They're doing a meetup on Jan 13th 1 pm @ William Eggleston: Democratic Camera exhibition at LACMA.

+ DNJ Gallery which is just up the street from PIX is moving to the Westside over to Bergamot Station. This Sunday (Jan 9th) from noon to 4 pm will be a reception for their new space at J1

+ To celebrate the New year, Richard Photo Lab has a 15% off coupon.. Lasts only a week and will expire on ....wait for it .... 1 / 11 / 11 !

+ On a personal note, my book is now carried in the Bay Area, by the chain called Therapy . w00t !

BBC : The Genius of Photography - Episode 2

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photoLA (1/13-1/17)

Yup, new year means time once again for photoLA and this year it celebrates 20 years as the largest photo-based art fair in the country.



Check here for the listing.
Check here for the pricing

Some of the talks scheduled are free so I suggest you RSVP as soon as possible for those. photoLA runs Jan 13-17, 2011 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium with some of the lectures and talks held across the street at the DoubleTree Suites. See y'all there !


UPDATE : photoLA just posted there will be an afterparty over in Santa Monica after the opening reception on the 13th.

UPDATE 2 : The listing is now off their website. Assuming they are retooling.
UPDATE 3 : The listing is back up. The moved the description to the Eventbrite page.

Photo : Marcella Kligman

Manjari Sharma’s “Water" (1/8)

I was actually centering my showers around this light that came in through my bathroom window. For one hour, it turned my shower space into this glorious sun room, and then I invited my first subject to shower in that space for me. So, in essence, the project started in a very simple way—following the light, and my heart of course. But as I studied what happened to these people as they showered for me, I felt there was a ritualistic unveiling of the mind. The walls that somehow surround us and restrict us came down in the shower and made people say some very personal things about their life to me. In my artist statement, I attribute it to the intimacy of standing in the same bathtub, the washing down of the water, and the shower thereby transforming into a confessional.

Opening reception is this Saturday, Jan 8 at Kopeikin Gallery and according to her blog, she won't be able to make it to opening itself but will be here for the closing reception on Feb 12, 2011. You can read more about Manjari from her interview here.

The other photographer exhibiting at the same space will be Steve Fitch.

Kopeikin Gallery
2766 La Cienega Blvd (just north of Washington)
Los Angeles, California 90034

BBC : The Genius of Photography - Episode 1

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Monday Briefs

+ I am Los Angeles

+ LA Arts Month 2011 kicks off this Wed with David Hidalgo & Louie Perez of Los Lobos as well as performance by Cirque du Soleil at Music Center Plaza in downtown Los Angeles.

+ KPCC's Patt Morrison talks about the demise of Kodachrome with Los Angeles photographer Gary Leonard.

+ Vintage Van Nuys

+ Oh, PIX is back to regular schedule now - Mon-Fri open 6 AM to 10 PM and Sat/Sun for your photo rental needs. If you don't know who we are, we're do photography equipment rental here. Rent anything from lights to grip equipment, to generators to digital backs, digital bodies, lens, and so forth. We deliver too, starting at $5 bucks - just click on Delivery in the menu tab for more info.

Steve Fitch "1970-2010" (1/8)

Steve Fitch "1970-2010" Opening reception Jan 8, 2011 6-8 pm.

Kopeikin Gallery
2766 S La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90034
(310) 559-0800

Women in Creative Photography Annual Open House (San Diego) (1/4)

At our Annual Fine Art Gallery and Open House, members will present their fine art photography created during the past year’s WiCP meetings. Prospective members are invited and encouraged to share their work at our fun and friendly potluck brunch

RSVP -> lucidumas@aol.com

Jan 4, 2011 10 am to 1 pm

Luci Dumas Fine Photography
2045 Dale St.
San Diego, CA 92104

Early Years of the Rose Parade

While Time Square has New Year's Eve, New Year's Day belongs to Pasadena with their Rose Parade - a tradition that my family have watched on television since I was a wee lil' lad though I'm sorry to say that even though I live half a hour a way in Los Angeles, I've never ventured up to catch the event live in person myself. D'oh !

Today, the Los Angeles Times' photo blog Framework posted photos from the early years of the Rose Parade