Minor Cropping May Occur (selected diaries 1961-2001)
Group Exhibition
Lombard Freid Projects
February 17 – March 18, 2011

Opening tonight at Lombard Freid Projects is a particularly ambitious photographic survey spanning five decades. Curated by Lea Freid and Nick Haymes, Minor Cropping May Occur (selected diaries 1961-2011) sports over 150 images from thirteen internationally scattered photographers. Our contribution? An odd mix of trimming, mounting and framing, all at breakneck speed … and I can tell you one thing for sure, the show title is accurate!

row 1: Nick Haymes
row 2: Diafu Motoyuki
row 3: Keizo Katajima
row 4: Walter Pfieffer

You can read more about Minor Cropping May Occur by clicking here.

Tags: Exhibitions, Framing, Lombard-Freid Projects, Mounting

This is worth a look:

Polaroid kills Polaroid – British Journal of Photography

Here’s a prototype of a new museum box that we’ve spec’d. The sides are finished with .080 anodized aluminum. The seaming is very clean (despite the crusty iPhone jpegs). These can be produced in nearly any size up to 40 x 60 or 40 x 50. The side depth is variable from 1/2″ to 3 1/4″. The photograph in this piece is mounted on 6mm sintra but we can use dibond or aluminum as the mounting substrate as well. It’s a beauty and the customer will be taking it away shortly . I hope to have additional protos in the shop soon. Don’t hesitate to check in directly with any questions if you’re interested.

Tags: Mounting, Museum Boxes, The nicest things ...

Just in time for the holiday season, the nice people at Slideluck Potshow are having a fancy fundraiser auction at Sandbox Studios. The auction includes some pretty nice photographs (we know because we helped print a few of them). There will be amazing food from a number of supper clubs, delicious wines poured by The Noble Rot, beer lovingly provided by Brooklyn Brewery, cocktails, deserts and some fun surprises. Plus (as you can see from the invite) DJ Spooky is one of the primary sponsors of the evening so I’m expecting the music to be over the top as well …
The point of the fundraiser is for Slideluck to expand their programming and reach more communities nationally and globally, bring in a development director, purchase needed cameras and supplies for the Slideluck Youth Initiative – as well as hire staff to continue empowering underprivileged kids through photography and multimedia storytelling. In addition to working with students in the Hudson Guild projects in Chelsea, Slideluck plans to build community between youth photography programs all over the world and create a centralized platform for sharing their insights and experiences through the language of images.

That’s the hard part … the easy part for you is to just purchase a ticket and come out for a night of fun … and maybe even go home with a new piece of art!

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are not easily explained.

Tags: David Sherry, Mitch Epstein, Some Days ...

So, this guy walks into the lab the other day …

photo courtesy of Becky Reeve

and he says: “Is it just me or does it smell like tarter sauce in here?” Dead silence on our end … I mean, how are you supposed to respond to that?

Anyway, turns out he was delivering Pedro Arieta’s 8 x 10 mag, Issue B. A joint publication of Pedro’s with Kareem Hamady. It’s a beautiful thing to behold: (7) portfolios with somewhere around (39) unbound 8 x 10 prints … all encased in a custom made shiny black & blue plexi slipcover. Most notably, 8 x 10 mag presents the work of these photographers uncluttered by text or advertising.

Aside from the publishers (Pedro and Kareem) 8 x 10 mag lists David Karwan as Design Director along with the website addresses for the contributors: Noritoshi Hirakawa, Stian Foss, Joe Hume, Todd Matarazzo, Sigurjon Guojonsson and Antonio Ibarra.

Best I can tell, there aren’t any pictures of fish sticks in the entire issue.

Visit www.8x10mag.com to find out how to get yours.

Tags: 8 x 10 mag, Pedro Arieta, Tarter Sauce, The nicest things ...

Tags: 8 x 10, Kodak

Maybe not everyday, but some …

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Burning Bridges
Tim Barber:
Nike Bowery Stadium
2010

Now that I’ve been to the Nike Bowery Stadium and having tried to describe the night to a bunch of different people I’ve found myself on the dumb end of the question: What exactly is the Nike Bowery Stadium? I say “dumb end” because I actually haven’t been able to answer. So like any smart guy would do, I looked them up online and checked the “about” link … here’s how Nike (I presume) calls it:

Nike Stadiums are new multi-purpose destinations in Berlin, London, Milan, New York, Paris and Tokyo. Stages for inspired performers, labs for innovative expressions, spaces where stories are told and others are written.

We are always open, always on.

I don’t know if “always open” translates into 24 hours … but there’s still a good bit of “Huh?” in there for me. For instance, they don’t mention anywhere that there’s a retail component to the whole thing and yet, I found myself purchasing a a pair of these?

Anyway, the real reason we were there was to revel in the fantastic display of b+w images shot by Tim Barber called Burning Bridges (again, don’t ask) … the important thing is, the work looks great!

Barber (left)

From Darkness to a Dream
Danny Clinch
Morrison Hotel Gallery
October – November, 2010

The Moment (The New York Times / T Magazine), recently caught up with photographer, harmonica player and filmmaker, Danny Clinch, whose images can be seen at the Morrison Hotel Gallery in SoHo from Thursday.

Read the interview by clicking here:

As mentioned above, it rained Thursday night … pretty hard, pretty much all night, in fact. Despite this, here’s what the Danny Clinch opening at Morrison Hotel looked like by the time I arrived:

Jammed, from one end …

to the other.

Clinch, mobbed.

Tags: B+W Silver Gelatin Printing, Danny Clinch, Digital-C Printing, Exhibitions, Film Processing, Morrison Hotel Gallery, Mounting, Scanning, The Morrison Hotel Gallery, Tim Barber

Invasoes Holandesas
Sebastiaan Bremer
Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo
September 16 – October 30, 2010

Sebastiaan Bremer: Invasos Holandesas no Rio de Janeiro, 2010
42 x 48 acrylic and ink on digital c-print

Sebastian Bremer’s first solo show in Sao Paulo reflects his interest in Dutch / Brazilian 17th century history. Entwined with references to early Dutch painters, politics and the passage of time; these multi-image digital c-prints are made all the more complex by Bremer’s meticulous surface renderings in acrylic and ink … a dense eyeful, to say the very least.

 Acqua Alta
Janaina Tschape:
Sikkema Jenkins & Co
September 10 – October 16, 2010

Janaina Tschape: Acqua Alta #1, 201040 x 50 optical c-print, non-glare plexi face mount

Tschape’s multi-disciplinary exhibition at Sikkema-Jenkins includes a series of 40 x 50 conventionally enlarged c-prints, face-mounted with P-99 non-glare plexi.

All Together Now
Tomaz Dozol
NP Contemporary Arts Center (formerly Envoy Gallery)
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

A one night show? Hell, we almost missed it ourselves … but that’s not to say that we didn’t spend a lot of time working out conventional darkroom solutions with Thomas for his new series All Together Now.

August Pross (foreground) sorts through it all with Thomas Dozol at LTI/Lightside

testing along the way

Tags: Conventional C-Printing, Digital-C Printing, Exhibitions, Janaina Tschape, Mounting, Scanning, Sebastiaan Bremer, Thomas Dozol