Category — Photography

Here are three shows opening tonight and tomorrow.

Visualizing Climate Change: The Work of GHG Photos, a show affiliated with the New York Photo Festival, opens tonight.  GHG is shorthand for greenhouse gases and this show intends to document the cause, effects and attempts at controlling climate change.  Check it out - I’m planning on going.

If you work in Times Square, you can also view the show at the Port Authority (42nd and 8th).  Wish I had know that since I walked by there last night coming from my friend Claudia’s MFA thesis exhibition.

Visualizing Climate Change: The Work of GHG Photos
The Henry Gregg Gallery
111 Front Street Suite 226
Dumbo, Brooklyn
http://henrygregggallery.com/

May 14 - June 21
Opening May 14 6-9p

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Secondly, and this one I’m really excited about, is the ICP show of my FAVE - Avedon.  Avedon Fashion opens to the public tomorrow.  And bonus - Fridays are “pay as you wish”.

Avedon Fashion: 1944 - 2000
ICP Museum
1133 Avenue of the Americas @43rd Street
NYC
www.icp.org
info on the show - here

May 15 - September 6

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Lastly, my friend and neighbor, Jim Moore’s show Up and Clown opens tomorrow night as well.  Jim and I used to work together at TREC when I first started working in photography around 6 years ago.  This show includes photographs taken at The New York Downtown Clown Revue as well as photographs from the past 30 years.  I’m a bit freaked out by clowns in general (thanks Poltergeist), but will push that fear down and go after Avedon tomorrow.

Oh yeah, Jim also worked with Phillipe Petit on the famous high-wire walk between the Twin Towers on August 7, 1974.  His images appear in the award-winning documentary Man on Wire.

Up and Clown
SB Digital Gallery
125 E4th St
Btwn 1st and 2nd Aves
NYC
www.sbdigitalgallery.com

May 15 - June 3
Opening reception May 15 6-9p

After Party @Phebe’s
(cash bar though!)
361 Bowery @4th St
May 15 9-11p

The 2nd annual New York Photo Festival opens tonight and runs through this weekend.  The opening party is tonight @8:30 @Powerhouse Arena.  You must RSVP - RSVP@NYPHOTOFESTIVAL.COM

Powerhouse Arena
37 Main St
Dumbo
Brooklyn

I can’t make it due to a prior engagement - my good friend Claudia’s MFA thesis exhibition which opens this evening too!

MFA Thesis Exhibition
May 13 - June 13, 2009
Opening Reception and Performance: Wednesday, May 13, 6 - 8pm

Hunter College / Times Square Gallery
450 West 41st Street (between 9th and 10th Avenues)
New York, NY 10036

And I just found out that Mark McAndrews, who’s a friend of a friend, is a nominee for the New York Photo Awards 2009!

Congrats Claudia and Mark!

©2005 Jocelyn Baun

Every Thursday night you can find my friend Jon Oliver DJing at Madame X spinning choice cuts from Gang Starr to Marvin Gaye to Radiohead.  During the day, he’s been shooting a portrait series of people on 110th Street, starting at 110th & Broadway and working his way east.   So far he’s covered 110th and Broadway, Amsterdam, Columbus, Manhattan Ave, Central Park West, Adam Clayton Powell Blvd and Lenox Ave.  All the images are shot wide open giving intense focus on his subjects.

I just thought this one was funny!

And this week he was profiled in the nyc the blog dot com

To find out when and where Jon’s playing, head over to his blog - Jon Oliver Music

You may remember I donated a couple prints for last Thurday’s Photo Auction fundraiser for the Obama/Biden Campaign.

Afternoon at the Louvre ©2008 Jocelyn Baun

Walking in the Marais ©2008 Jocelyn Baun

Walking in the Marais sold!  Yea!  I wasn’t at the auction (surprise, surprise, I was working) so I’m trying to find out how much it sold for.  I heard the fundraiser was a success and the event coordinator is gathering images from the night.  In the meantime, you can see some images at the Rogue Space blog.

And Photo Plus starts tomorrow.  Just opened my credentials like 5minutes ago and realized that doh!  I am working again starting tomorrow, with today my second day off in 14 days!  So if you go, get me some feedback.  Crap, gotta cancel my ASMP appointment for Friday now.  Bleh.

This season started full-on.  Since last Tuesday, we’ve been working 7 days straight, even one day finishing at 1a only to come back to Milk 6.5 hours later.  I was supposed to work today as well but the last couple days I’ve been sick and yesterday became really ill.  Thank you Emergen-C and Berocca for getting me through the day!  As I’m writing this I’m lying on the couch have been for the last, oh, since I woke up.  Outside of the painful cough and shivering, the worst is that I can’t eat.  I have no taste anymore.  Yesterday I took a bite of what appeared to be a yummy, full of brown sugar and butter chocolate chip cookie.  Now, I’m obsessed with chocolate chip cookies and am very discerning about them.  Nice dark color (similar to the color of City Bakery’s), studded with chips, not too crispy.  I put a bit in my mouth as I walked back to set and NOTHING.  I stopped in my tracks.  No sugar.  No butter flavor.  Just a gritty texture of what I assumed to be the sugar.  And it was downhill from there.  Hopefully I’m better tomorrow since I’m starting another week stretch.  Can’t complain though, I’d rather be swamped and all work is good, especially in this economy.

On Thursday I’ll have two photos in an auction benefitting the Obama/Biden campaign.  If you can, please do attend.

Cocktail Reception and Photography Benefit Auction
A fundraiser for the Obama/Biden campaign

Thursday, October 16th
Rogue Space
508 West 26th Street, Studio 9E
6pm-9pm
http://chelseagalleryspace.com

My Camden photos are in the new issue of King on newsstands October 14.  Adam wrote the story.

Camden
“THE REALITY OF HOPE”
Afternoon murders and sub-poverty-line living characterize the city of Camden, New Jersey. Could sloganeering presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s platform really save the hood?

New York Times profile of Fabien Baron, uber creative director, head of Baron & Baron, editorial director of the revamped Interview and a titan in fashion.

Fabien Baron: The Art Director as Star

By Cathy Horyn

Photo: Eric Johnson for The New York Times

PhotoShelter Collection, after only a year of making a go of it, is closing effective October 10, 2008.  The Personal Archive portion will remain.  While I was only with Collection a few months, I appreciated their efforts on behalf of the photographer such as stock photography education, a stance against microstock, fair pricing and commission (70/30 split). Allen Murabayashi, PhotoShelter CEO, gave the following reasons for closing the Collection:

1.    Stock photography is a slow growing market dominated by a single player.
(Thanks Getty!)
2.    Research Requests move too quickly for individuals to react in a timely fashion.
3.    Buyers desire more diversity, but convenience (aka subscription deals) triumphs this desire.
4.    A crowd-source model for stock will likely never work.

Check out Allen Murabayashi’s post here

Maybe I SHOULD look into microstock sites such as iStockphoto (part of Getty Images) since I’m not a full-time stock photographer, nor desire to be.  Sigh.  My buddy Clint is with them and has actually made a good amount of money.  I worked a couple years as a freelance photo editor for WireImage, which got bought out by Getty.  Man, I can’t escape them.  Well, at least all I have to do is reupload images…

Since this month’s arrival of the Atlantic, I’ve stared at the McCain cover (that’s sitting on the living room floor) thinking, hmmm, that’s pretty interesting.  And Jill Greenberg???  She makes babies cry.  Then I heard about yesterday’s revelations.  After the cover shot was done, she took some unflattering photos of McCain, ’shopped them up, and totally bragged about it on her site!  Ok, I’m full-on Obama, but OMG, what was she thinking!  I’m fed up with the dirty, GOP tactics and lies too, but how is this going to help the Dems?  Her career?  Will she have a career?  There’s been a lot of talk about it - links below.

The Atlantic Monthly’s cover + it’s editorial response

(screenshots from Jill Greenberg’s site)

The monkey poop is pretty funny though.  This image is from American Digest, who got it off Jill’s blog before she took it down.  Just checked, it’s still down.

Read more about the Greenberg/McCain/Atlantic fiasco:

PDN

A Photo Editor

NY Post

Mark Tucker

I’ve a renewed interest in film, particularly Polaroid. The last three years I’ve pretty much only shot digitally and of course, everyone I work with is shooting with Phase backs and the occasional Canon 1Ds MIII, so I’ve lost a bit of the magic/wonder/fun of photography. On a job this week, the Polaroid Big Shot came out.

image by Timmy Toucan

I’d never seen this one before, but it’s pretty cool. Manufactured from 1971 - 1973, it’s made specifically for portraits, uses pack film like 669 and magic cubes for flash! So cool. Apparently Warhol used this camera to get an image for his commissioned portraits.¹   I totally want one of them now along with a Land Camera 360. Ebay here I come!

BTW, if you haven’t heard, Polaroid is discontinuing it’s instant film and after 2009, that’s it.²  Check out Save Polaroid as well.

¹ Screen Tests: 1964 - 1966, Warhol Stars
² Polaroid Abandons Instant Photography by Patrick J. Lyons