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| More than 100 galleries and publishers and some 40,000 visitors are converging on Paris November 13–16 for Paris Photo, which again coincides with the city’s monthlong celebration of photography. Some 38 percent of participants are first-time exhibitors this year, and organizers have taken notice of the growing interest in Japanese photography: Japan is the "guest of honor" at this year’s event. More than 130 artists from that country will be included, and curator and photography critic Mariko Takeuchi is organizing a special exhibition highlighting Japanese photography; films and videos are also being shown in a special project room. A few weeks later, Photo Miami opens its doors, December 3–7, with more than 50 galleries participating, many from Europe and South America. The fair, which is known for showing progressive work in new media, is making room for a bit more tradition this year. "We spent the first two years rebelling against the title of the fair, and working hard to get galleries who deal in new media," says Tim Fleming, director of Photo Miami. "This year, we’re going to be a little more of a well-rounded photo fair. We’ve even allowed a couple of galleries in to show work from the ’60s." Hard as it is to believe, politics is not the only game in Washington, D.C.: the first installment of FotoWeek DC opens November 15 (through November 22), with more than 50 galleries, museums, and alternative spaces participating. The festival is co-organized by the National Geographic Society, Hemphill Fine Arts, and other local photography organizations. On the Gulf Coast, meanwhile, New Orleans is hosting the third installment of PhotoNOLA, which returns to the city for a month, starting on December 4. Exhibitions by Sally Mann, Keith Carter, and Lisa Silvestri and lectures by Bruce Davidson and Jamel Shabazz are among the special events, which also include a workshop sponsored by Blurb, a self-publishing website and software company. In museum news, Katherine Ware is leaving her post as curator of photographs at the Alfred Stieglitz Center of the Philadelphia Museum of Art to become curator of photography at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe. Among the exhibitions she has organized are Street Smarts: Photographs by William Klein, and Dreaming in Black and White: Photography at the Julien Levy Gallery, which she co-curated with Peter D. Barberie, who is taking over as curator at the Philadelphia Museum. The Cincinnati Art Museum has appointed James Crump, the editor, curator, publisher, filmmaker, and critic as its first curator of photography. Crump had served as associate curator of photography at the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, where he organized the exhibition George Platt Lynes: Photographs from the Kinsey Institute. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art received a substantial gift from trustee Wallis Annenberg and the Annenberg Foundation that has enabled the acquisition of the Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, comprising more than 3,500 photographs covering the history of the medium. The gift also provides for a study room, scheduled to open in 2011, that will allow the public access to the entire photography collection. “The importance of the gift is profound,” says Charlotte Cotton, head of the newly named Wallis Annenberg Photography Department, “It’s really the first time LACMA has been able to mount a world-class exhibition from its own collection. It’s a real act of philanthropy.” Copyright ©2008 photograph. All rights reserved. No reproduction or republication without written permission. |
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