Black and White to Color spans over different periods of Eggleston’s career. It includes a rare group of early silver gelatin prints that formed and shaped the foundation of his aesthetic, vintage color prints, a large collection of chromogenic prints from his Democratic Forest series, several iconic dye-transfers, as well as his most recent archival pigment prints.
Robert Frank - The Americans
The Unseen Robert Frank: Outtakes From ‘The Americans’. Only 83 of the nearly 28,000 photographs Mr. Frank made during his journeys appeared in the book, In 1978, Mr. Frank sold the rest of those photos to cover living expenses and fund his film-making. The NYT Lens Blog
Henri Cartier-Bresson
“To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart. It's a way of life.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Black and White Now opens at South x Southeast Photo Gallery
Here is the gallery of photographs selected by Mark Steinmetz to be included in the B+W Now exhibit. https://www.sxsephotogallery.com/
William Eggleston's Music, Much Like His Photography, Thrives Off Ambiguity
NPR reporter Rick Karr speaks with Eggleston and Memphis writer Robert Gordon about the parallels of Eggleston's inventive nature in both photography and music.
https://www.npr.org/2018/01/03/575352034/photographer-william-eggleston-first-musical-album
Atlanta Photography Group 'Where Are We' Exhibit opens May 11th
Alan Rothschild, juror for Where Are We, is the founder and president of The Do Good Fund, Inc., a non-profit organization that focuses on building a museum-quality collection of photographs taken in the American South by well-known and emerging photographers working in the region.
Arbus, Friedlander, Winogrand - the landmark 'New Documents' show at MOMA
Great story in the Photo Booth section of the New Yorker on this 1967 Museum of Modern Art exhibit put together by John Szarkowski. http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-exhibit-that-transformed-photography
Atlanta Photography Group Choice Exhibit open March 30th
Walker Evans
"The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.” ― Walker Evans
Southern Landscapes
The Southern Landscapes exhibit, juried by Elizabeth Avedon, opens on March 11th at the Brickworks Gallery in Atlanta. This photo of mine, taken at the Battle of Resaca Civil War reenactment, will be in the show.
Minor White
Minor White’s archive is now up-and-running at the Princeton University Art Museum. http://artmuseum.princeton.edu/minor-white-archive/about
William Christenberry, 1936-2016
"I find beauty in things that are old and changing, like we are all changing." William Christenberry, 1982
Black & White
My two photos selected for the February issue of Black & White magazine. #bnwphotography #blackandwhitephotography
William Eggleston
"Words and pictures don't - they're like two different animals. They don't particularly like each other." William Eggleston in William Eggleston, the Pioneer of Color Photography interviewed in the New York Times, October 2016.
Arnika Dawkins Selects at Atlanta Photography Group
This group exhibition of 29 photographers is curated from an open call for submissions by Arnika Dawkins, director of the Arnika Dawkins Gallery. Opening on Friday, Oct 21st. This is my image selected for the show. http://www.atlantaphotographygroup.org/events/2016/10/14/opening-reception-arnika-dawkins-selects
Elliott Erwitt’s Take on the Magic of Photography
I love reading or listening to great photographers talk about their favorite photographs - how and why they took them and what lessons they illustrate. Elliot Erwitt is always interesting and informative, as well as funny. He loves his job. Here he is in Time's Lightbox blog: http://time.com/4447552/first-take-elliott-erwitt/
William Eggleston at the National Portrait Gallery
John Wall writes about the William Eggleston exhibit in his blog The Southern Photographer.
Alcovy Trestle Bridge, Newton County, Georgia
The Alcovy Trestle Bridge, which carries a CSX rail line over the Alcovy River, has a long and bloody history. It is believed that the stone pilings are the remains of an earlier bridge that Sherman burned down during the Civil War. During the 1940's the bridge was the scene of several lynchings of young black men from the area. The bridge is rumored to be haunted by the ghost of one of the victims. A longer and more detailed story about these events is covered in this Covington News article.
Mary Ellen Mark
"I work in color sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white - I like the abstraction of it."
Flight
This photo, 'Contrails' was selected for the 'Flight' juried show at the PhotoPlace Gallery. http://photoplacegallery.com/flight/
