The Capa Cache/ New York Times

By Randy Kennedy

Photograph by Tony Cenicola/The New York Times

Thousands of negatives of photographs taken by Robert Capa during the Spanish Civil War, long thought to be lost forever, have resurfaced.

RICHARD MISRACH: On the Beach/ National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. May 25 to September 1, 2008

Richard Misrach
Untitled 1132-04 [Flippers], 2004
chromogenic print
Collection of the Artist

For more than thirty years, the American photographer Richard Misrach (b. 1949) has made provocative work that addresses contemporary society's relationship to nature, especially the American West. Since 2001, he has made a series of large scale (five by eight or ten feet), lushly colored photographs of swimmers and sunbathers in Hawaii. Looking down from a hotel room directly adjacent to the beach, he has eliminated all references to the horizon and sky to record people immersed in the idyllic environment. Yet, despite the beauty of the scene, a strange sense of disquietude pervades these photographs. Made in the days immediately after September 11, 2001, these photographs speak of the unease and sense of foreboding that pervaded the country after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The title of the series, On the Beach, is drawn from Nevil Shute's cold war novel about nuclear holocaust. This exhibition will present 19 of these photographs.

REDNECK CHIC/ art ltd.

REDNECK CHIC by Matthew Kangas

With the complete assimilation of photographic equipment and processes into contemporary art over the past two decades, artists who privilege a documentary, darkroom-based print approach are increasingly overlooked or disdained. Mark Barnes, Jesse Burke, Steve Davis and Glenn Rudolph are four artists exhibiting in Seattle and Portland galleries and museums who vary time-honored fine-print techniques and cameras with large-format digital means, in search of the vanishing working-class white males of the American Northwest. The results are stylish, somewhat comical and also somewhat tragic.

New York Times Art Review

The Exhalted, Captured but Not Bowed
by Karen Rosenberg












Colette, Paris, 1951
Close Encounters: Irving Penn Portraits of Artists and Writers
at the Morgan Library
Photograph taken from the New York Times

Last spring, in its first foray into modern photography, the Morgan Library & Museum acquired 67 of Penn’s portraits of artists, writers and musicians. (Thirty-five were donated by Mr. Penn.) The entire group is temporarily on view in “Close Encounters: Irving Penn Portraits of Artists and Writers,” which complements the library’s collection of 20th-century drawings, manuscripts, books and musical scores.

New York Times Art Review

Well, It Looks Like Truth
By HOLLAND COTTER









"Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art." Haji
Qiamuddin holding a photograph of his brother, Asamuddin, in
Fazal Sheikh’s series "The Victor Weeps: Afghanistan," at the
International Center of Photography
Photograph taken from the New York Times

Spring Schedule 2008

January 29
ICA Boston

February 5
Visiting artist Jeannie Simms

February 12
Talk with John Goodman Howard Yezerski Gallery

February 19
Bill Arning List Visual Arts Center
MIT

February 26
War Stories Bakalar Gallery
Massachusetts College of Art and Design

March 4
Visiting artist Claire Beckett

March 8 to 9
NEW YORK CITY visit contemporary art exhibits

March 22
Jenny Holzer PROJECTIONS
Anselm Kiefer Sculpture and Paintings
MASS MOCA North Adams

March 25
Visiting artist Nick Nixon

April 1
Patrick Murphy Department of Prints and Photographs
Museum of Fine Arts Boston

April 12
OPEN

April 15
Emily Henckel Department of Photographs
Fogg Art Museum/ Harvard University

April 22
Visiting artist Denise Marika

April 29
Final Presentations

Museum of Fine Arts Boston Lecture

A Day Exploring Contemporary Photography
10 am — 4:30 pm
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Remis Auditorium



Laura McPhee
Mattie with Bourbon Red Turkey, Laverty
Ranch, Custer County, Idaho, November 2004
C-print

Large-Format Color Photography in Today’s Art Market
Learn about large-format photography from an artist, a printer/fabricator, and a gallery owner: Boston photographer Laura McPhee recently exhibited forty large-scale photographs at the MFA; Marc Elliott, partner in Boston-based Color Services Company made them; and Bernard Toale sells them. Participate in a lively discussion of scale in today's art market


A Photographer Speaks
Gain insight into Lalla Essaydi’s creative process, from her childhood experiences in Morocco to her return there to document her home. She explains how she uses the female body, the veil, and Arabic calligraphy in her work as a way to represent Arab culture to the West.



Lalla Essaydi (Moroccan)
Duty Free, 2005
oil on canvas
Courtesy of the artist

Looking with Curators
Curators Karen Haas, William Stover, and Anne Havinga lead an exploration of German and Japanese photography in the exhibitions "Contemporary Outlook: German Photography: and "Contemporary Outlook: Japan," as well as an up-close look at photographs from the MFA collection.

The Inside Story of Elton John's Photography Collection
Featuring works from 1916 to the present, Sir Elton John's collection of 5,000 photographs includes work by Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, and Horst P. Horst. Curator Jane Jackson reviews the methodology, themes, and history of Elton’s collecting, as well as his recent acquisitions.

COURSE IS LIMITED TO 75 PARTICIPANTS