Steven Benson: RED, WHITE & BLUE in Black and White
Dec.18, 2004 - Jan. 23, 2005

Galerie Lichtblick, Steinberger Str. 21, 50733 Köln, Germany
+49 (0)221-729149, lichtblick@web.de

also on view:
Steven Benson: 30 Years in Black and White
Through January 30, 2005

Centre des bords de Marne, 2, rue de la Prairie, 94170, Le Perreux-sur-Marne, France
01 43 24 54 28

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Nate Larson: Stories

Selections from Nate Larson's "Stories" series are featured this month on the Toronto-based Samplesize, an artist-run web magazine and project space. http://www.samplesize.ca/gallery.html

There are lots of other interesting projects and writing on the site as well. Peruse at your leisure.
Hope that all of you are well and keeping warm in the cold weather.

www.natelarson.com

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The Soho Photo Gallery presents

Jill Waterman: New Year's Eve Project
Dec. 7, 2004 - Jan. 01, 2005

Soho Photo Gallery, 15 White Street, New York, NY 10013.
212/226-8571, www.sohophoto.com

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En Foco's Touring Gallery presents

Greetings from Newark
Photographs by Pam Owens

Dec. 5, 2004 - Jan. 27, 2005

Seventh & 2nd Photo Gallery, Middle Collegiate Church, 50 E Seventh Street, New York, NY 10003
212/477-0666, En Foco 718/584-7718, www.enfoco.org

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On this Desert Island. Photographs by Samuel Davis.
Dec. 6 - 17, 2004

Grant Hall Gallery, The University of Nevada Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas. 702/810-0395.

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OMNIART: The Neighborhood as a Work of Art. A Large Scale Urban Intervention.
All Eyez on US, MIART Foundation

to take place during ART BASEL

Dec 3-5, 2004
Opening Dec 3, 9 pm - 2 am

Warehouse B, NE1 Ave and NE13 Street, Miami, FL, www.omniart-miami.com

also on view:

AFFINITAS: Exploration in Art and Architecture from the University of Miami
Opening Night, Dec 2, 8 pm - midnight.

3901 NE 2 Ave & NE 39 Street. Miami, FL.

Both exhibitions include work by SPE member Carola Dreidemie

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Charmed: Photographs by Susan Dunkerley
(winner of the 78th Annual International Competition: Photography)

Dec. 2, 2004 - Feb. 19, 2005

The Print Center, 1614 Latimer St., Philadelphia, PA 19103 (between spruce and Locust Streets)
215/735-6090, info@printcenter.org, www.printcenter.org

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En Foco presents

Umbra: Contemporary Photographs of Urban Africa
photographs by Kerry Stuart Coppin

Dec. 1, 2004 - Jan. 12, 2005

Location: Vantage Point Gallery, a partnership between the International Center of Photography and The Point CDC, 940 Garrison Avenue, Bronx, NY 10474, 718/542-4149, En Foco: 718/584-7718, Vantage Point: 718/542-4149
www.enfoco.org

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Spectra '04 National Photography Triennial
Nov. 21 - Dec. 22, 2004

Juror: Barbara Hitchcock, Director of Cultural Affairs at the Polaroid Collections.
The exhibition includes work by Susan Scafati.

Silvermine Guild Arts Center, 1037 Silvermine Rd., New Canaan, CT 06840
203/966-9700, www.silvermineart.org

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Tone Stockenström: Collaborative Projects
Nov. 16, 2004 -March 2005

"As a documentary photographer I am committed to working on socially conscious projects that actively involve collaboration between the subject and the photographer. It is an exchange of voices and points of view that most interests me and the process of transferring this powerful experience to an audience. It is the weaving together of many voices, experiences, and moments that challenges me to do this type of work." —Tone Stockenström.

Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Lyndhurst House, 1317 W. Pettigrew St, Durham, NC 27705
http://cds.aas.duke.edu/, http://cds.aas.duke.edu/exhibits/nowonview.html, www.stockenstrom.com

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Picture Taken
An exhibition of anonymous snapshots curated by Clare Goldsmith

November 18th - January 15th, 2004

Panopticon Gallery, 435 Moody St, Waltham, MA.
voice 781-647-0100, http://www.panopt.com/gallery/gallery.html

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Robert Mann Gallery
Nancy Rexroth: Iowa

Nov. 18 - Jan. 8, 2005

From 1970 to 1976 Nancy Rexroth completed Iowa , a series of images that evoke her memories and dreams of childhood in the Midwest. Working with a Diana camera, she embraced its defects - irregular exposures, bent perspective and blurred focus. Works on exhibit will be uniquely toned vintage prints from the Iowa series.

The journey through Iowa is one of empathy - as we travel deeper into the artist's past, we also retrieve our own memories of childhood. White wood-frame buildings shimmer; young boys seem suspended in air; sunlight is harnessed in the folds of a curtain; a picnic is shrouded with shadows at dusk. As Iowa progresses, people gradually disappear, the dream grows stronger and the images become more abstract, culminating in a luminous vision of pure white sky.

Robert Mann Gallery, 210 Eleventh Avenue, New York NY 10001, 212/989-7600
http://www.robertmann.com

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Swiss Camera Museum in Vevey, Switzerland
and Showalter Hughes Community Gallery at Crealdé School of Art

Small Stories from a Big Country
Peter Schreyer
Nov. 13, 2004 – March 6, 2005

The Showalter Hughes Community Gallery at Crealdé School of Art presents the work of documentary photographer and Crealdé Executive Director Peter Schreyer.The exhibition highlights a selections from his retrospective solo show entitled Small Stories from a Big Country, which will be held at the Swiss Camera Museum in Vevey, Switzerland from Nov. 13, 2004 – March 6, 2005. It encompasses 85 images by the Swiss born photographer spanning more than two decades of his American work. Over the past 25 years, Peter Schreyer has exhibited in more than 100 group and solo photography exhibitions in the United States and Switzerland.

Showalter Hughes Community Gallery at Crealdé School of Art. 600 St. Andrews Blvd., Winter Park, FL 32792
407-671-1886, www.crealde.org

Swiss Camera Museum in Vevey, Switzerland, http://www.cameramuseum.ch

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Michael Kenna: Ratcliffe Power Station, New Landscapes
Nov. 15 - Dec. 30, 2004

Catherine Edelman Gallery, 300 W Superior St, Chicago, IL, 312/266-2350.
www.edelmangallery.com

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Mostly Small Things: Mixed Media Works by Dick Lane
Nov. 8 - Dec. 9, 2004

Ida Green Gallery, 903/813-2188. website

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Ruth Adams + Kelli Connell
Two Points of View

Nov. 7 - Dec. 10, 2004

focuses on two nationally known photographers, Ruth Adams and Kelli Connell.

College of Mount St. Joseph, Studio San Giuseppe Art Gallery, 5701 Delhi Rd., Cincinnati, OH 452330, 513/244-4314

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Contemporary Vernacular
Nov. 5, 2004 - Jan. 23, 2005

This group show features contemporary responses to vernacular or everyday photographs, including artists who allude to or incorporate family, found, anonymous, and non-canonical imagery and themes into their work. Featured artists include Yolanda del Amo, Louise Bourque, Nancy Dudley, Susan E. Evans, Joseph Heidecker, Priya Kambli, and David Prifti.

In the Vernacular: Everyday Photographs
from the Rodger Kingston Collection
Nov. 5, 2004 - Jan. 23, 2005

This exhibition of over 150 vintage vernacular photographs and objects by primarily anonymous photographers will examine entire categories of photography that have remained overlooked. By highlighting this diverse and unique collection, the exhibition seeks to outline a model of photographic history that can account for the diverse totality of photographic creation and use.

Vernacular Reframed
Nov. 5-6, 2004
College of General Studies, Jacob Sleeper Auditorium, BUAG, and PRC

Vernacular Reframed , a two-day interdisciplinary conference, will reexamine definitions of vernacular photography by exploring the ways photographs have been produced and consumed.

Photographic Resource Center at Boston University
832 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215, 617/975-0600, prc@bu.edu
http://www.bu.edu

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Webster University presents
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew

Nov. 5 - 26, 2004

The May Gallery is located in the Sverdrup Building or Webster University at 8300 Big Bend Boulevard, St. Louis MO 63119. http://www.webster.edu/maygallery/

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Chan Chao: Echo
Nov. 5 – Dec. 18, 2004

Numark Gallery presents Echo, Chan Chao's newest body of work. Photographing his subjects at close range, front and center, Chao returns to a subject he dealt with earlier in his career - the female nude. Chao received wide critical acclaim for his previous body of work, Burma: Something Went Wrong, which was prominently featured in the 2002 Whitney Biennial. An artist book, Echo, accompanies the exhibition.

Numark Gallery, 625 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20004.
202/628-3810, numarkgall@aol.com. www.numarkgallery.com

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Gallery 1401. The University of the Arts presents

Phil Harris

211 S. Broad St., 14th fl., Philadelphia, PA 19102. 215/717-6300.
www.uarts.edu

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Permutations on the Picturesque
Photographs by Adam Bartos, Denis Dailleux, Tim Maul, Richard Misrach, John Pfahl, Jem Southam, Joni Sternbach

Nov. 4 – Jan. 8, 2005

Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, 21 East 26th Street, New York, NY 10010
www.seniorandshopmaker.com

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Sarah Hobbs: Small Problems in Living
November 4–December 23, 2004

In the ongoing series Small Problems in Living, Sarah Hobbs explores the psychological terrain of phobias and neuroses. Set in fabricated domestic spaces that are constructed in the artist's studio, the photographs are conceptual exaggerations of various pathological thought processes. Collectively, they function as metaphors for issues that plague the contemporary human psyche such as perfectionism, obsessive compulsiveness, social phobia and paranoia.

The end result are near life scale prints (48" x 60") whose sheer magnitude prompt the viewer to assume the subject role by placing them in the space both physically and psychologically. Visible strings and exposed tape foreground the materiality of the construction and serve as visual metaphors for the way in which phobias and neuroses construct the mental landscape of the human psyche.

Yossi Milo Gallery, 552 W 24th St, New York, NY 10011, 212/414-0370, www.yossimilogallery.com

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Morten Nilsson: Dance
Nov. 4 - Dec. 18, 2004

The exhibition "Dance," by young, Danish artist Morten Nilsson, is comprised of images of participants in ballroom dancing competitions. Nilsson attended a large number of such events and photographed contestants immediately upon their exit from the dance floor. Using a ring flash (commonly used in fashion work), the artist set his subjects against whatever backdrops he found available, from white brick walls and brown curtains to worn wood paneling and cement. The photographs produced are direct and unadorned with the subjects often situated frontally in the center of the frame looking directly into the camera's lens.

The second body of work also focuses upon young participants in dance competitions. However, these subjects move to decidedly more contemporary beat. The title of the series is "Discoqueen." Again, the subjects are photographed quite directly in a cool, detached, objective style. However, the discoqueens are all posed in front of a shockingly bright red background. The lighting is white neon--a soft and even, but bright and clear illumination. The dancers' wild, shiny costumes and theatrical make-up are set-off by the vivid, monochromatic backdrop.

ClampArt
531 West 25th St, Ground Floor, New York City 10001
646.230.0020, info@clampart.com
www.clampart.com

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The Clifford Art Gallery at Collgate University presents

Land of the Free: Landscape Photography
Deborah Bright | Peter Goin | Harry Littell

Nov. 3 - Dec. 10, 2004

The Clifford Art Gallery, Collgate University, 101 Little Hall, Hamilton, NY 13346.
315/228-7633, http://merz.colgate.edu/

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Parkland Art Gallery presents

Eclectic Visions. Photography Invitational
featuring Carol Golemboski, Dana Fritz, Ryan Davis Flathau, Davis Husom and Anna Tomczak

curated by Craig McMonigal

2400 W. Bradley Ave., Champaign, IL. 217/351-2485. www.parkland.edu/gallery

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Silver Eye Center for Photography proudly presents Unspoken Ground: Two Views of Japan , an exhibition that addresses the current impact of humans upon their environment in Japan. On view from Nov. 3, 2004 - Jan. 29, 2005, Unspoken Ground: Two Views of Japan combines the work of two mid-career photographers based in Tokyo, Japan: Shinichiro Kobayashi and Fumimasa Hosokawa.

Contemporary Japanese photographers Shinichiro Kobayashi and Fumimasa Hosokawa record the quiet evidence of human beings upon the Earth. In these images, no judgment was made, and people were not recorded; however, the images discretely reveal unspoken ground. Silver Eye is thrilled to share this Japanese photographic point of view with Pittsburgh.

1015 East Carson St, Pittsburgh, PA 15203, 412/431-1810
http://www.silvereye.org/Exhibitions.html

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The Colorado College Art Department presents the “Visiting Art Faculty Exhibit,” which will display photography, jewelry, prints, and an art installation by visiting faculty of the Colorado College Art Department. Featured artists include Monica Escalante, Frank Gohlke, Stuart Klipper, Andrea Modica, Jean Gumpper, Andrea Wallace, Eija Mustonen and Stokley Towles.

The exhibit runs from 11/2 - 12/21/04

Coburn Gallery at Colorado College in Colorado Springs
http://www.coloradocollege.edu

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Ellen Carey/MATRIX 153: Photography Degree Zero
Oct. 31, 2004 - April 24, 2005

Museum of Art, 600 Main St., Hartford, CT 06103, 860/278-2670
http://www.wadsworthatheneum.org/
Exhibition Details

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Vincent Cianni
We Skate Hardcore: Photographs From the Southside

Terry Gydesen and Diana Walker
Reds, Blues, and Others
Oct. 30 - Dec. 22, 2004

Vincent Cianni's project on Puerto Rican youth of Brooklyn, won an Alfred Eisenstaedt award for "Best Magazine Photography" in 1999. Selections from this exhibit are featured in the recently published New York University Press' "We Skate Hardcore". Complimenting Cianni's work, Terry Gydesen and Diana Walker direct our attention to the inner workings and the everyday lives of our chosen representatives, from the White House to the Minnesota House. Whether Red (the color used to represent Republicans on electoral maps), Blue (Democrats), Green, or some other shade in the political spectrum, all politics boils down to relations between people, to the activities beyond the filter of contrived media events. These two photographers have proven themselves experts at capturing such moments, and their images provide a clearer sense of the real personalities lying behind public political personae. Diana Walker has covered the White House and presidential activities for Time magazine since 1976. MCP will show a selection from her 2002 book Public and Private: Twenty Years Photographing the Presidency alongside images by Terry Gydesen of campaign and everyday politics in Minnesota.

Minnesota Center for Photography, 165 - 13th Avenue NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413
www.mncp.org

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The Carrie Secrist Gallery in Chicago, Illinois will exhibit Roaming, the work of Todd Hido from Oct. 29 - Dec. 24, 2004. Please visit www.artnet.com for more details.

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Horatio Hung-Yan Law
Mixed-media installation ”Sweet Countenances 2"

Oct. 28 - Nov. 8, 2004

This is the second part of an ongoing project with Portland families who have adopted children from China.
The installation is a projection of pixilated digital portraits of adopted children and parents onto a screen made of silk rose petals and red thread. Playing in the background is a recording of chanting by Buddhist nuns. This exhibition explores identity issues raised by trans-cultural adoptions: individuality and collectiveness, uniqueness and commonality, identification and belonging, connection and loss.

IMAG Gallery of the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Room 111, 1241 NW Johnson, Portland, OR

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Jill Greenberg: Monkey Portraits
Oct. 23 - Dec. 11, 2004

The Paul Kopeikin Gallery is proud to present “Monkey Portraits," a personal body of work by internationally acclaimed celebrity photographer Jill Greenberg. Greenberg uses her signature style to create a touching and powerful series of large-scale portraits of various species of monkeys. A catalogue of the exhibition will be available.

Paul Kopeikin Gallery, 6150 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90048, 323/937-0765. http://paulkopeikingallery.com

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Jane Alden Stevens
Tears of Stone: World War I Remembered

Oct. 23, 2004 – Jan. 2, 2005

This exhibition presents a moving examination of the haunting cemetery sites of World War I captured on film by photographer Jane Alden Stevens. Appropriately, as World War I was a war closely associated with the poetry of such important writers as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and Rupert Brooke, the installation allows viewers to participate in the process of remembrance by writing down their own thoughts and observations. During five trips to World War I battlegrounds and memorials in France, Belgium, England, Germany, and Alsace-Lorraine, Stevens recorded these plains and hillsides where nearly a century ago battles were fought and thousands of lives were lost. Almost a hundred years later, World War I provides a timely reminder of the sacrifices and the courage that accompany the reality of war.

Image: Chatham Naval Memorial , 2001, Silver print

Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY 14853-4001
607/255-6464, museum@cornell.edu
www.museum.cornell.edu

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Façade Projection: Asta Gröting's Parking
Oct. 22 – Nov.4, 2004

Parking by German artist Asta Gröting, the fourth in the Museum’s series of façade projections, represents her first museum show in the United States. Trained as a sculptor, Gröting turned to film in the early 1990s to escape the limitations of sculptural materials. Best known for her ongoing series of films of ventriloquists, Gröting is interested in fundamental psychological concepts. In the short, humorous Parking , she choreographs a number of cars fighting over the same parking spot. The viewer is afforded a view from above on how different psychologies play themselves out in this model world, recognizing him- or herself in the different drivers.

Image: Parking, 2001 (video still), DVD, 4:32 minutes

Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY 14853-4001
607/255-6464, museum@cornell.edu
www.museum.cornell.edu

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BRIAN MOSS

Oct. 21 - Nov. 27, 2004

Curated by Lisa Yuskavage
"...these photographs move me. I see them as profound and unfiltered expressions of sadness. It is rare that someone bares themselves so clearly." – Lisa Yuskavage

Artist Statement: Having lived through the slow and painful process of watching loved ones die prematurely, I have pursued existential issues around death and decay, memory, loss and history and their relation to photography and representation ever since. Reading Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida was a transformative experience for me in that it really solidified the peculiar relationship between death and photography. The work presented here fulfills my need to keep exploring this rich subject.

CUE Art Foundation, 511 West 21st Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues), New York, NY 10001  212/206-3583

http://www.cueartfoundation.org
http://www.mossprojects.net

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Phyllis Galembo's photographs remind us that Halloween is more than an occasion for children to dress up and go trick-or-treating. The pagan folk traditions associated with All Hallow's Eve were domesticated in the nineteenth century when they evolved into the American holiday of Halloween. Yet Halloween night has never quite lost its ghostly connotations of mutability and supernatural power. Halloween and masquerade costumes give us an opportunity to play roles and try on identities, transforming ourselves, if only for one evening, into witches, goblins or superheroes.

http://www.albanyinstitute.org/

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9x Smack Mellon: 2004 Studio Artists
Oct. 15 - Nov. 14, 2004

David Ellis, Valerie Hegarty, Shin il Kim, Andrea Loefke, Meridith Pingree, Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, Kwabena Slaughter, Austin Thomas, and Dana Kainalu Vierstra

Smack Mellon Gallery, 56 Water Street Dumbo Brooklyn, NY
718/834-8761, www.smackmellon.org

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Abelardo Morell: About Time

Bonni Benrubi Gallery is pleased to announce a show of new work by Abelardo Morell. This show will be the inaugural exhibition at the gallery’s new space in the Fuller building at 41 East 57th Street. The exhibition will feature recent additions to Abelardo Morell’s well-known series of camera obscuras as well as images of objects. Included will be new camera obscuras of Cuba, England, and the Whitney Museum. Based on an optical principle known for centuries, Morell blacks out the windows in a room, leaving a small aperture which, in effect, transforms the space into a camera and overlays the world outside on the inside. Like the camera obscura work, Morell’s pictures of objects share the curious feeling of being both odd and familiar. The mechanized working of a clock as well as laboratory test tubes become the spires and buildings of a futuristic metropolis. They are at once simple and intricate and full of details, transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary. Abelardo Morell attended Yale University and is a professor of photography at the Massachusetts College of Art. His pictures are owned by museums and collectors throughout the world, and he has had seven books of his photographs published including the recently released Camera Obscura.

http://www.bonnibenrubi.com

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Nate Larson and Jean Perkins
Oct. 14 - Nov. 14, 2004

The McLanahan and Sheetz Galleries of the Community Arts Center are exhibiting the works of two Chicago photographers, Nate Larson and Jean Perkins. The exhibition is the second of the 2005 Ivyside Juried Exhibition Series.

Sheetz and McLanahan Galleries, located in the Titelman Study of the Community Arts Center at Penn State Altoona. 3000 Ivyside Park, Altoona, PA 16601-3760, http://www.aa.psu.edu/

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IDENTITY AND IMAGE
Sept. 28 - Dec. 12, 2004

The Southeast Museum of Photography's Fall 2004 exhibition season will showcase the work of four internationally recognized photographers, drawing on significant photo-documentary work from Taiwan, the United States, Iran and Israel .

THE CHAIN – CHIEN-CHI CHANG
Be one of the first to behold these mesmerizing and disturbingly powerful life-sized black and white photographs. “The Chain” becomes a transforming metaphor as Chien-Chi Chang explores the complex and ambiguous relationships between the patients who are chained together in pairs at the Lung Fa Tang mental institution in Taiwan . This is the first showing of the complete Chain series in the United States.

GIRL CULTURE – LAUREN GREENFIELD
For over five years, award-winning photojournalist Lauren Greenfield photographed the daily lives and rituals of girls around the United States. “Girl Culture” investigates girls' relationship to their bodies and the ways the female body has become a template for the conflicting messages to girls within contemporary culture.

THE PERSIAN IMAGE – ANTOIN SEVRUGUIN
Antoin Sevruguin's striking photographic images of life in Iran from the 1870s to the 1930s reveal a land caught between the norms of traditional Islamic society and the complexities of the rapidly encroaching modern world. The Armenian-Iranian artist inhabited a cultural landscape where East met West and his unique perspective is now accessible to a modern audience.

OUR DAILY BREAD – MICHA BAR-AM
From the founding of the state of Israel in 1948 to the present day, conflict in the Middle East has centered on this tiny nation. From his days on a Kibbutz in the late 1940s and throughout the region's tumultuous history in the 1950s, 60s and 70s Micha Bar-Am photographed the life of his people and his country.

Daytona Beach Campus of DBCC, 1200 International Speedway Blvd, Building 100, Daytona Beach, FL
http://www.smponline.org/

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Contemporary Artists Gallery:

Jesseca Ferguson
Sept. 25 - Oct. 24, 2004

University Art Gallery, College of Visual and Performing Arts
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740
508/999-8555

http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa/universityartgallery/currentexhibitions.html

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Robert Mann Gallery
Wijnanda Deroo

Sept. 23 - Nov. 13, 2004

Ken Johnson of The New York Times suggests that Dutch artist Wijnanda Deroo's photographs have a "curious, searching quality... as though she were a detective." The absence of people in Deroo's images "points to a secret, to something hidden beyond what is visible." ( Perspektief #30 , Rudy Kousbroek) Yet each frame offers evidence about the missing inhabitants, even in sites that have been abandoned for decades. Her camera enters places we would not choose to go, probing private lives and forgotten spaces. A sense of geographical dislocation runs through her work; without examining the title of a piece, we cannot be sure where we are. Deroo intentionally elicits this reaction, offering no recognizable landmarks or signifiers. Deroo is well-versed in the vernacular of the commonplace - there is an echo of human presence in the unremarkable architecture and objects she photographs.

Robert Mann Gallery, 210 Eleventh Avenue, New York NY 10001, 212/989-7600
http://www.robertmann.com

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A Thousand Hounds: A Walk With the Dogs Through the History of Photography
Sept. 20 - Dec.11, 2004

The exhibition celebrates the endearing and enduring partnership between man and dog in over 150 photographs and 1 photographic sculpture, which date from 1840 to the current day and have been created by both masters of the medium and lesser-known practitioners. Among the noted artists included from the nineteenth century are Gustav Le Gray and William Henry Fox Talbot, and from the twentieth century, Margaret Bourke-White, Bill Brandt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, André Kertész, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Paul Strand, and Weegee. Also prominently featured are works by contemporary artists, including William Wegman, Elliott Erwitt, and Keith Carter, all renowned for their images of dogs, as well as by Larry Clark, Robert Frank, Ralph Gibson, Sally Mann, Vik Muniz, and Sandy Skoglund. The exhibition is serious and scholarly in its considered presentation of the dog’s place in momentous historical and cultural events of the past century and a half, ranging from polar expeditions to the Great Depression to the World Wars. It is also light-hearted and engaging in its celebration of photographers’ longstanding artistic interest in the canine as model, muse, and metaphor.

Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery . 1000 Hilltop Circle . Baltimore MD 21250 . 410/455-2232
Cynthia Wayne, Curator of Exhibits, 410/455-2270

http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/gallery

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Joyce and Edward Linde Gallery
Robert ParkeHarrison: The Architect’s Brother Exhausted Globe
Sept. 18, 2004 – Jan. 2, 2005

The Architect’s Brother considers the state—and possible fate—of the Earth.

Robert ParkeHarrison collaborates with his wife, Shana, on the conception and execution of complex images that combine performance, sculpture, photography, and painting. Their innovative approach to picture making draws upon their use of paper negatives and collage to construct stories of loss and struggle amid landscapes scarred by technology and over-use. At the heart of these pictorial tales is a lone individual—ParkeHarrison himself as “Everyman”—engaged in Herculean struggles with nature and artifice. The mythic world he creates mirrors our world, where nature is domesticated and controlled. In actions that are both humorously metaphorical and lyrically poetic, ParkeHarrison constructs beguiling stories that make us consider what we have done or are doing to our earth.

DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, 51 Sandy Pond Rd, Lincoln, MA 01773, 781/259-8355
http://www.decordova.org

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James and Audrey Foster Galleries, Fourth Floor Hallway Gallery
Luminous Forms: Abstractions in Color Photography

Sept. 18, 2004 – Jan. 2, 2005

In conjunction with the ParkeHarrison exhibition, Director of Curatorial Affairs Rachel Rosenfield Lafo has organized two additional photography exhibitions that focus on abstraction as a theme. The photographs in Luminous Forms — whether created for the camera by the artist, or abstracted from objects or places in the natural world—emphasize color, form, and light as subjects unto themselves. The six photographers selected for this exhibition explore different forms of abstraction, from pulsing mandala shapes to images of pure color created by gels. Artists include David Akiba, William Armstrong, Sandi Haber Fifield, Olivia Parker, Bonnie Porter and Laura Wulf.

The DeCordova Museum also presents "Abstract Photography in the Permanent Collection," in the Arcade Gallery. This exhibition accompanies "Luminous Forms" and includes works by SPE member, Calvin Kowal, and work by David Akiba, Len Gittleman, Gyorgy Kepes, Aaron Siskind, Bradford Washburn and others.

DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, 51 Sandy Pond Rd, Lincoln, MA 01773, 781/259-8355
http://www.decordova.org

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Few photographs in recent years have had the explosive impact of the images of detainees being abused by U.S. troops at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.  A selection of these pictures that shocked the world will be on view at the International Center of Photography (1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street) from September 17 through November 28, 2004, and will also be shown at the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh from October 3, 2004 through January 2, 2005.

1133 Avenue of the Americas @ 43rd St., New York, NY 10036, 212.857.0000
www.icp.org

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Camera/Action: Performance and Photography
Oct. 15 - Dec. 23, 2004

The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago will exhibit Camera/Action until December 23, 2004. The group exhibition includes work by Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Chris Burden, Patty Chang, Valie Export, Tehching Hsieh, Ma Liuming, Hayley Newman, Dennis Oppenheim, Barbara Probst, Charles Ray, Roman Signer, Jemima Stehli, Tseng Kwong Chi, Mathew Wilson, Erwin Wurm, Young Hay and Zhang Huan.

From artists who perform in public and record their actions, to those who perform specifically for their cameras, the legacy of performance art from the mid-20 th century has been richly mined and extended by contemporary artists, many of whom have made the limitations and special nature of photography a central concern. Intending to raise questions about the limits of art production and self-perception, issues of framing, and the nature of time, many artists have chosen to approach the enigma of photography by making it integral to the piece itself, creating what Vito Acconci aptly dubbed "photo-actions."

www.mocp.org

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Home, Sweet Home
A national photography exhibition juried by Hannah Neal

March 4 -April 24, 2004

33 artworks from 23 artists, including Brian Alesi, Karen Bucher, Dawn DeAno, Mitch Kern, Amie Luther, Denis Sivack, Amanda Stahl and Andrea Wallace.

studio2gallery
1700 S. Lamar Blvd. #318, Austin, TX 78704, 512-448-2622
www.studio2gallery.com, www.inthegalleriesaustin.com

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Common Places Photographs by Karen Bucher, Judy Gelles, David Husom.
March 13 to 27, 2004

This exhibition of three SPE members is offered during the 2004 National
Conference of the Society for Photographic Education. Arnold's Gallery is
within walking distance from the Newport Hyatt Regency Goat Island Hotel and
part of the gallery tour on Saturday March 26.

Arnold Art Gallery, 210 Thames Street, Newport, RI 02840
401-847-2273, info@commonplacesphoto.com
Gallery Hours: 9:30 to 5:30, Monday-Saturday, 12:00 to 5:00 Sunday
www.commonplacesphoto.com

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Rick Gerharter: Cuba Panorama, February 4-April 23, 2004

James Lerager: Mexico Portraits of Complexity/Retratos De La Complejidad, February 20-April 23, 2004, Council Gallery 2nd Floor. Rick Gerharter: Cuba Panorama, February 4-April 23, 2004, Council Library, 3rd Floor

Opening Receptions: March 4, 2204, 5:30-6:30 pm and March 9, 2004, 1:30-2:30pm

World Affairs Council of Northern Califormia
312 Sutter St, San Francisco, CA 94108
(415) 293-4600
www.itsyourworld.org

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International Center of Photography presents

The Art of Science Imaging the Future:
The Intersection of Science, Technology and Photography

Curated by Carol Squiers, March 12 - May 30, 2004

1133 Avenue of the Americas @ 43rd St., New York, NY 10036, 212.857.0000
www.icp.org

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International Center of Photography
New Histories of Photography.

Expanding Vision: László Moholy-Nagy’s Experiments of the 1920s
March 12 - May 30, 2004

Organized by ICP and the George Eastman House

1133 Avenue of the Americas @ 43rd St., New York, NY 10036, 212.857.0000
www.icp.org

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The International Center of Photography presents
Gustav Klutsis and Valentina Kulagina:Photography and Montage After Constructivism

Margarita Tupitsyn, Guest Curator
March 12- May 30, 2004

1133 Avenue of the Americas @ 43rd St., New York, NY 10036, 212.857.0000
www.icp.org

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Masala: Diversity and Democracy in South Asian Art
Contemporary photography section curated by Annu Palakunnathu Matthew

February 1-April 9, 2004
Gallery Talk April 3rd, 3pm

The William Benton Museum of Art,
245 Glenbrook Road, Unit 2140, Storrs, CT
(860) 486-4520, www.benton.unconn.edu

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Self-Evidence:Identity in Contemporary Art

February 7 - May 30, 2004
Opening Feb 6 5:30-8:30pm

Artists have long explored their identities through representing their likenesses in self-portraiture. Self-Evidence, however, focuses on contemporary artists who examine their identities by using themselves or aspects of themselves as a starting point for exploring larger issues and their relation to the self. Some of these issues include the effect of illness or trauma on one's body and mind, aging and identity, the individual's relationship to family, cultural or ethnic identity, genetic identity and identification, sexuality and gender, the lasting evidence of an individual's existence after he or she is absent, and the artist's identity in relation to his or her artistic predecessors.

Participating artists include Steve Aishman, Sachiko Akiyama, Karl Baden, Gerry Bergstein, Walead Beshty, Ambreen Butt, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons,