LensWork Alumni News - January 2014

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January, 2014

New Work • Exhibitions • Workshops • Publications • Folios

In This Issue We like to think of LensWork as a family of fellow artists, bonded together by our love of photography as a way of life. It’s our honor and pleasure to work with so many wonderful photographers, and to keep you informed of their creative paths. Here are some recent news items from our alumni. — The Editors

New Book

Exhibition

Joint Exhibition

Patricia Lay-Dorsey

James Whitlow Delano

Michael Kenna

Exhibition

Publication

Group Exhibition

Wayne Norton

Dominic Rouse

Jo Whaley

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Patricia Lay-Dorsey — Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan www.patricialaydorsey.com

New Book Falling into Place Detroit-based artist Patricia Lay-Dorsey was diagnosed with chronic progressive Multiple Sclerosis in 1988. Twenty years later she turned her camera on herself and began taking self-portraits with the intention of showing from inside the day-to-day life of a person with a disability. The photographs chronicle the struggles and achievements of the artist as she learns to accept the limitations of her body and celebrate her abilities rather than her disability. Taken together, the images build a compelling narrative about the artist’s daily life over five years that is inspiring, deeply moving, and offers a fascinating insider perspective. The story highlights Lay-Dorsey’s energetic lifestyle, and unconventionally for a woman of her age, a love of Detroit electronic dance music which led its aficionados to bestow on her the nickname “Grandma Techno.” Published by Ffotogallery, edited by David Drake and designed by Victoria Forrest, the hardback publication includes 50 color images, an artist statement and biography, and texts by David Alan Harvey, Magnum photographer and Burn Magazine Editor, and David Drake, Director of Ffotogallery. To order this book email Becca Thomas at [email protected].

Lay-Dorsey in LensWork Extended #77 Dualities

The paired images in this portfolio highlight this sense of the sameness/differentness of real things, and as we view them we participate in the connection between those dualities. Back issues of LensWork Extended perpetually available here. Click to return to first page

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James Whitlow Delano — Tokyo, Japan www.jameswhitlowdelano.com

Exhibition Mangaland: A Tokyo Retrospective Marking photographer James Whitlow Delano’s 20 years working in Japan Sous Les Etoiles Gallery New York, New York Through January 31, 2014 James Whitlow Delano, born 1960, is an Americanborn photographer based in Tokyo, Japan. As one of today’s foremost photographers of Asia, Delano’s work  has appeared worldwide in numerous magazines and photo festivals, and is held in the permanent collections of  La Triennale di Milano Fine Arts Museum (Milano, Italy); Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, Texas); Museo Fotografia Contemporanea (Milano, Italy); Museum of Photographic Arts’ Dubois Library (San Diego, California); Noorderlicht Photography Festival (Groningen, Netherlands); and the Permanent Leica Book Archive (Solms, Germany).   

Since he visited the city of Tokyo in spring of 1993 at a friend’s urging, James Whitlow Delano has become one of the most informed photographic eyes on Japanese culture. His photographs of Japan – whether capturing intimate commuter moments or the devastation after the Fukushima meltdown – present a complex picture of a society at once jaded yet naive, resilient yet vulnerable.    Also presented are select images from the series Black Tsunami, recently published by FotoEvidence in the new book Black Tsunami: Japan 2011, depicting the aftermath of the 2011 tsunami and Fukushima meltdown. Together, the two series present not only the artistic merits of the photographer’s work, but also its journalistic imperative.

Delano in LensWork #54

China: Between Past and Future

Delano’s volume of cultural photographs, accompanied by amazing personal experience, lead us to find out more about this prolific photographer and his work. Back issues of LensWork perpetually available here. Click to return to first page

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Michael Kenna — Seattle, Washington www.michaelkenna.net

Joint Exhibition Peter Fetterman Gallery Santa Monica, California Through March 1, 2014

Peter Fetterman Gallery is pleased to present a joint exhibition by acclaimed photographers Michael Kenna and Pentti Sammallahti. Representing two of the leading international artists working in the traditional black-and-white photographic medium, showcasing over forty seminal works by each artist spanning their prolific careers. The exhibition will be the first for Michael Kenna at Peter Fetterman Gallery, and the second for Pentti Sammallahti. While the work of both artists conjure similar emotional and aesthetic themes of quiet contemplation, they achieve this from vastly different creative approaches. Pentti Sammallahti’s photographs are representative of the Classical Humanist genre, strict composition and practice of “The Decisive Moment,” even being featured at the opening of the Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson in 2004 among the French Master’s 100 Favorite Photographers. Kenna’s images, while vulnerable to the spontaneous compositions of the natural world, are the product of dedicated patience and sensitivity to the revealing effects of light and time on land. Their mutual ability to create stunningly poignant photographs is reinforced by the immaculate quality of their printing, both master craftsmen of the ever more endangered silver gelatin process.

Kenna in LensWork #50 Calais Lace With the publication of his book, Calais Lace, Kenna reflects on his artmaking life and the divergent interests that have pulled him through nearly thirty years in photography.

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Wayne Norton — Wickenburg, Arizona www.nortonphoto.com

Exhibition “The exhibit includes 43 desert landscape photos which were recently shown at the Desert Caballeros Western Museum in Wickenburg, Arizona (May 2013 - October 2013) and are currently on exhibit at the Tucson Desert Art Museum in Tucson, Arizona (November 2013 April 2014). “The photographs were all taken in the deserts of California and Arizona to express my views and concerns regarding Man’s relations to the desert and our impact upon it. This series of landscape photographs is my portrait of the American desert. I wish to question Man’s treatment of the desert and our existence there by exploring various themes

and issues through my art. My concerns for the desert are serious but my artistic vision is often symbolic, whimsical, and even ironic. While the crux of the series is the narrative theme of the images regarding Man’s relations to the desert, I am equally motivated by artistic values and personal expression. I try to create highly formal, graphic compositions, enhanced by working in black and white, without the distractions of color, yet avoiding a level of abstraction that would diminish the sense of realism in the depicted scenes. I value the final photograph as a work of art, striving for high-quality images by shooting with a 4x5 view camera, and then utilizing sophisticated digital equipment for scanning and printing.”

Norton in LensWork and LensWork Extended #66 Desert Relations

A Brooks Institute trained commercial photographer, Norton turns his attention to more personal and self-directed studio still life photography with this portfolio of objects he found in the desert. Back issues of LensWork Extended perpetually available here.

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Alumni News Dominic Rouse — Naimung, Thailand

www.dominicrouse.com

Publication 43mm Magazine Issue 2: Monochrome Featuring an extended interview with Dominic Rouse

You are invited to peruse the absorbing second issue of 43mm Magazine.  Monochrome is a special dedication to the artistry of blackand-white photography publishing insightful interviews with six striking artists whose works span an inspiring spectrum of black-and-white photography: “43mm is thrilled to showcase this provocative, enthralling, engaging, and award-winning work from these masters of blackand-white photography.” Click here to read the issue online. There are now over 70 Dominic Rouse print sales live on eBay! Visit ART + GRAFT Gallery Editions to see what’s in store.

Rouse in LensWork #36

Haunted By A Painter’s Ghost

Dominic Rouse began his photographic career at the age of sixteen as a photojournalist, working for local and national newspapers for a period of five years. Unsatisfied by the technical limitations of newspaper work, he returned to college in 1982 to study commercial and advertising photography. There, he developed a particular interest in multiple-exposure techniques using large format cameras. Back issues of LensWork perpetually available here. Click to return to first page

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Alumni News Jo Whaley — Santa Fe, New Mexico

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Group Exhibition Photo Objects & Small Prints Featuring the beginnings of a new body of work by Jo Whaley: Botanical Studies Through February 1, 2014  photo-eye Gallery Santa Fe, New Mexico  “photo-eye Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of photographic objects and small prints from a wide range of artists working with photography in a variety of ways. We are also pleased to partner with Mary Anne Redding to present REDD: a pop-up experience with two contemporary art jewelers engaging with the photographic medium.

Whaley in LensWork Extended #88 The Theater of Insects

Jo Whaley’s studio still life photographs bring us images that harken back to the days when insect collections were a form of entertainment as well as a way of exploring the world. She creates these detailed constructions in order to photograph them. Back issues of LensWork Extended perpetually available here. Click to return to first page

“The exhibit will include small prints from Ernie Button, Ronald Cowie, David H. Gibson, Kevin O’Connell, James Pitts, Pentti Sammallahti, Jo Whaley, and Zoë Zimmerman. David Emitt Adams, Linda Connor, Raymond Meeks, Chris McCaw, Julia Barello, Kate Breakey, Curtis Wehrfritz, Rachel Phillips, Chaco Terada, Laurie Tümer, Fritz Liedtke, Rachelle Thiewes, and Ryan Zoghlin will contribute a variety of photographic objects including photographs printed on rocks, silk, vintage envelopes and tin cans, as well as hand-made books, Daguerrotypes, jewelry, and more.”

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