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Studio Visit with Mary Teresa Giancoli
They work away like bees in a hive, quietly and industriously, in old manufacturing buildings in off-beat sections of the city. Artists, writers, designers, photographers. It’s always fascinating to visit and see work in progress. Recently I caught up with Mary Teresa Giancoli about her photographic exploration of Spanish culture in New York City and Mexico.
It’s not surprising to learn that Giancoli has a BA in Italian Culture from Wellesley College and an MFA in photography from Hunter. Her work combines a lush visual style with a deep interest in the customs of distinct Spanish communities. Her grandfather was born in Mexico, and many traditions were passed down through her mother’s side of the family. So it is not surprising that in the late 1990′s, Giancoli was drawn to photograph the Mexican communities in New York. 
She began the project on December 12, 1997 in Our Lady of Guadalupe, a small church on West 14th Street where the mass is said in Spanish. She established a connection through a guitarist who was willing to serve as her guide into the community. She relied on natural light and asked permission before taking pictures. She worked on her Spanish. Still, it took a long time for her to “break in,” and she attended many events all over the city, slowly accumulating a body of work.
After the opening of a solo show at the UAM (universidad autónoma metropolitana) in México City, Giancoli visited the small town of Cuetzalan, halfway between Puebla and Veracruz. It is rural and lush, struggling to improve itself economically while trying to hold onto traditional ways.
Children walking down the hill, San Miguel Tzinacapan, © Mary Teresa Giancoli
She was drawn to the Maseualsiuamej, a cooperative of women who banded together in 1985 to gain independence. They broke economic ties with men, got a micro loan to manage an eco-hotel, established a tortilla factory, and began to sell their beautiful needlework in the markets to gringos.
Joaquina Diego displaying her weavings from home, ©Mary Teresa Giancoli
Which strikes a note because the organization I am writing for, Professional Women Photographers, was founded by women photographers banding together to help other women photographers because at the time, no one else would. It was 1975, and there were few opportunities for women in the field. All of those who forged ahead have stories, some funny, some sad, about discrimination, and most struggled fiercely to survive.
Esperanza Contreras, Tortilleria, ©Mary Teresa Giancoli
Giancoli’s photographs capture the rhythm and texture of the Cuetzalan women’s lives, from their brightly colored home interiors to the beautiful blouses they make, which incorporate symbolically local flora and fauna–wild turkeys, lush vegetation, and exotic fruit like maracuya.
Maracuya fruit, ©Mary Teresa Giancoli
Giancoli also photographed a festival in which young women compete to represent their area and customs. As she describes it: “The festival of the Huipil (from Nahuatl, an Aztec language, meaning blouse or dress) revives indigenous customs in music, dance as a response to people who were displaced from their land and beliefs.”
Huipil beauties, ©Mary Teresa Giancoli
“The Huipil contest is held in October to honor a young woman. Contestants are fourteen to twenty years old, fluent in their native tongue, Nahuatl and Spanish, know how to weave and perform domestic work in rural communities. The young women are judged on their beauty and purity of their customs. The Tatiaxas, a council of men, delivers the vote of the winner in a hat to the lead Tatiaxa. The Huipil Queen is carried through town, and dancing breaks out in the Plaza of San Francisco.”
Huipil contestants and Tatiaxas, ©Mary Teresa Giancoli
When she came, the people of Cuetzalan told Giancoli they had been photographed before, but never seen any pictures. Not only did she win their trust, but gave them back beautiful and sincere images of themselves.
To see more, visit her website. All the photographs are archival digital prints on solid bamboo, 15″ x 15.” She will open her studio during the Long Island City Festival of the Arts on Saturday, May 17th 3-6 pm, and Sunday May 18th 3-6 pm, and by appointment. She will also lead a photo tour along the waterfront on May 17th.
Biography, Myth & Time-A Peek at Claudia Kunin
If you attend a Claudia Kunin exhibit, you’ll be given a pair of those funny glasses. Wait a minute, you say, aren’t they for movies? From the 50′s? Isn’t that technology… kind of old?
Actually, it’s ancient. The concept of stereoscopy, the presentation of two very similar pictures, side by side, for combination in the mind, was around long before photography was invented. Principles of depth perception were known to Euclid, and surfaced in the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. Other Renaissance artists produced side by side “stereoscopic” drawings, but it wasn’t until 1838 when British Professor Charles Wheatstone invented the stereoscope that people were able to see the dual images as one, with the illusion of depth.
Eleven years later, David Brewster described a binocular camera, and the first stereoscopic pictures were produced. But when he presented Queen Victoria with a stereoscope at the 1851 World’s Fair, the technology exploded into the popular realm. We may associate 3D with 1950′s movies, but by the 1850′s half a million households had a viewer, and until the 1920′s, stereo picture viewing remained a major source of home entertainment.
Back to those glasses. 3D can also be produced by printing two slightly offset negatives, one with the blue/green color info, the other with the red color info into a single image called an anaglyph. Then the red lens/cyan lens glasses recombine the color information, and the slight discrepancy in the placement of the two negatives provides the illusion of depth, like a peek into another world. Which is one effect Claudia Kunin seeks to achieve. But if the technology is old, so are myths and dream, and that really is what her work is all about.
Attachment (from 3D Theoretical Ghost Stories) ©Claudia Kunin
Kunin graduated from the University of Oregon in 1976 with a B.S. in Psychology, and worked for many years as a commercial photographer. But entering her fifties and faced with a serious illness, she took stock and decided she wanted to succeed as a fine artist.
She has. Her work is in the Getty Museum, the Smithsonian, and the Museum of Photographic Arts. Images from her series Family Ghost Stories recently appeared in Sunstruck at the Wall Space Gallery in Santa Barara, a show that also included the work of Robert Heinecken, Edmund Teske, James Fee, Stephen Berkman and Dean Brierly.
The road to this very personal imagery has been long and winding. Kunin always enjoyed photographing old things-haunted places, historic re-eactments. She always loved daguerreotypes, and enjoyed combining antique pictures with pictures of her own. Then there’s that liberation of the 2D surface which she arrived at after various trials: printing images on fabric, then layering them to simulate depth; outsourcing images to make them 3D; then finally learning the 3D process herself, which enabled her to make many other subtle manipulations along the way in Photoshop.
As a child, Kunin loved picture books. “I would go into them, projecting myself into that illustrated space.” As an artist, she speaks of the “natural desire we have to be transported,” ”to walk into the image….3D art makes that possible.”
At earlier points in her work, she incorporated daguerrotypes (3D Ghost Stories) and icons from the tales and myths of Western civilization (3D Holy Ghost Stories). Then a curator confronted her and suggested that she develop a more subtle, personal imagery.
A Strange Moment (from Family Ghost Stories) ©Claudia Kunin
Inspiring images were on hand. When her father died in 2007, Kunin inherited the collection of family photos, many of them stereo views taken with a Stereo Realist camera. She went through them carefully, selecting images that recalled vivid moments from her childhood. Mixing them with images of her own, she felt like she was “collaborating” with her father, “creating personal, familial, mythical tales.” The result was Family Ghost Stories.
A Strange Moment, one piece from this series, includes a picture of Kunin taken by her father when she was three years old.
“I always was VERY interested in what was going on around me…and would stare with a gaping mouth in wonder. My father would warn me that I would catch flies if I kept my mouth open that way.”
Though the snapshot of Kunin was taken on the Redondo Beach pier in California, the grounds in the finished piece are from Hatfield House where Queen Elizabeth the First spent early years, and the floating glass-like orb was fashioned from the image of a horse’s eye. Taken less than twenty-four hours after Kunin survived a near-fatal car accident, this mysterious translucent shape recalls a day that was especially vivid and much appreciated. ”Everything was beautiful, and magical that day,” she said, “as if seen for the very first time. I felt that I had been given another chance at life. A strange moment indeed.”
Probabilities © Claudia Kunin
Chance and fate are also contemplated in a darker light. Probabilities is an homage to her mother and the life she led as a young Jewish woman in Austria after the Anschluss. She worked in a bank and was protected by the bank’s president, who came from a wealthy background and used his influence with a Hitler henchman to keep her safe.
“There was a “Rassen-Amt” or race office where she had to check in every day….it was manned by a Nazi officer….just for her. She was not allowed into the bomb shelters….and had horrific memories of walking around during the bombs, and not being able to help people trapped inside bombed buildings. She also performed slave labor in a factory, making clothing out of burlap for Russian prisoners. But she never had to go to a camp.”
“The coin is an Austrian pfennig….She is watching the coin fall to see what her destiny might be…death in the camps, or meeting my father, and coming to America and having 2 children….either way she will let it be….”
In a world overrun with pictures, where graphics, photos, blaring signage and bright gui icons leap from the sides of buildings, from phones and e-mails, and flash in gaudy ads across our computer screens; where photographs have become so common and pervasive and easy to make that many photographers are not paid, Claudia Kunin’s images remain unique. While they are best appreciated through 3D glasses, they are strong enough to stand on their own. Hovering in a strange shadowland, a place with realistic depth, yet suggestive of some chamber of the human mind where dreams and memories mix with a dash of California sun, they utilize technology, but rise above it. These images are Claudia Kunin’s alone; they belong to nobody else, and you will find them nowhere else in the world.
- Catherine Kirkpatrick, Archives Director
Name, Place, Show
A Tradition of Honoring Women Photographers
This isn’t about Shoshana. There have been e-mails with tears and testimonials. This is not the place for that. This blog is about the experience of women in photography from the 1970′s on, when PWP was founded. But the history of woman in photography is not just about cameras and film and working against whatever social restrictions exist at whatever time. It’s also about the quest for recognition. Are you a singer if no one hears your song? Are you a photographer if no one ever sees your work? This is not about Shoshana. This is about what she did.
For those who don’t know, Shoshana Rothaizer compiled the accomplishments of the individual members of Professional Women Photographers into a list known as Kudos. In the early days (the 1980′s and 90′s) the entries were typed and pasted together, added to the newsletter (then on paper), Xeroxed and passed around or read out loud. As the internet entered our lives, they were published on the PWP website, I believe in html. When I joined PWP in 2004, I figured out pretty fast that if you got listed in Kudos, your name got a boost in the search engine rankings. This was before the world went blog-crazy and SEO became the coin of the realm.
In 2010, when PWP started a blog section on its new website, Kudos was published in WordPress. This can be a little tricky, because WordPress is kind of like Microsoft Word, but a little different. It offers the excitement of real time publishing, but without the fine-tuned layout control a program like Adobe InDesign ensures. Working in it, adding pictures and links for the first time, can be confusing. I’d begun writing the Archives Blog, and Shoshana, well-versed in all things PWP, knew about it. One Saturday as I was rushing out the door, the phone rang. It was Shoshana demanding help creating links in WordPress.
We talked for a bit, seemingly at cross purposes, then, after our respective blood pressures had gone way too high, realized we were actually working in different programs. Suddenly she announced she was heading off to work, then to Pennsylvania and hung up. Two days later I got an e-mail reproaching me for not writing to her with more info on formatting and links. Like PWP, she was quirky and yes, she could give you a workout.
But when she got down to business, she was very precise, and with her precision, she made you precise too. She reminded you that each and every thing you accomplished mattered. Every show you were in, every publication or website that featured a sample of your work, was one more step forward.
PWP Event Honoring Pioneering Women Photographers Ruth Gruber, Rebecca Lepkoff, Nancy Rudolph & Erika Stone ©Roseann Needlemann & Linda Sandow
She was also a link in the chain. It’s easy to forget today how hard it once was for women in photography. How they couldn’t get jobs or have their work taken seriously. Dianora Niccolini, PWP’s first president, started out sweeping up after the male photographers at Cornell Medical College. Marilyn Stern wrote about helping a boyfriend brush up on his printing technique so he could get a job with a famous portrait photographer, who at the time would not hire women. Shoshana took us seriously, and in doing so, respected and honored our vision. She made us take our own photographic work seriously. She made us keep track.
She was also a bit of a detective. Once, a long time ago, a new member sent her Kudos info on a solo show she was having at St. Peter’s Church at Citicorp. Something must have struck Shoshana as odd, because she went over to check it out. There was a show there, but it didn’t contain any work by that particular photographer. Shoshana let the woman know that she knew what was going on, because truth mattered to her.
In our last e-mails Shoshana was funny and offered encouragement. She also gave me a little kick in the pants to get my work moving out the door again. It was appreciated, like a little tough love from mom.
Photography is not the kindest art. Interesting, even great work can slip through the cracks as shown by the recent case of the nanny/street photographer Vivian Maier in Chicago, and the great French master, Eugene Atget, whose oeuvre was saved and championed by Berenice Abbott.
In PWP, Shoshana was forever acknowledging and keeping track, and that process, she honored our tradition of honoring women photographers. She also honored us. All our members appreciated her work, and I hope, in our own small, individual ways, we do her proud and honor her with each and every step forward that we take.
PWP Kudos From 2002 (Paper Version) by Shoshana Rothaizer
- Catherine Kirkpatrick, Archives Director
January 2011 Kudos
January 2011 Kudos, by Shoshana Rothaizer
Openings, Receptions and Special Events
(Note: All exhibitions are group shows except where indicated as solo shows. Details are in the following paragraph.)
Wed. 1/5, 8 p.m. - Roz Rosenblum, photo competition at Sacred Heart School, Castleton Avenue, Staten Island
Thurs. 1/6, 6-8:30 p.m. - Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin, opening reception at A.I.R. Gallery, 111 Front Street, #228, Brooklyn. 212-255-6651. http://www.airgallery.org/ There will also be a curatorial talk at 5 p.m.
Fri. 1/7, 5-7:30 p.m. - Lynn Saville, opening reception for solo exhibition at Schneider Gallery, 230 West Superior Street, Chicago, IL 60654. 312-988-4033.
http://www.schneidergallerychicago.com
Thurs. 1/13, 7:30 p.m. - Barbara Freedman, opening reception and artist’s talk for solo show, Koslowe Judaica Gallery, Westchester Jewish Center, Rockland and Palmer Avenues, Mamaroneck, NY 10543. 914-698-2960
Fri. 1/14, 7-10 p.m. - Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin, opening reception at Mpls Photo Center, Second Floor Galleries, 2400 North Second Street, Minneapolis, MN 55411. 612-643-3511
Wed. 1/19, 8 p.m. - Roz Rosenblum, presentation at Sacred Heart School, Castleton Avenue, Staten Island
Fri. 1/21, 6-8 p.m. - Susan Falzone, opening reception at Rita K. Hillman Education Gallery, International Center of Photography, 1114 Avenue of the Americas (at 43rd Street), NYC. 212-857-0001. http://www.icp.org/school/education-gallery
Sat. 1/29, 2:30-5:30 p.m. - Janice Wood Wetzel and Deena Weintraub, opening reception at Broadway Mall Community Center, Broadway at West 96th Street, traffic island
Sat. 2/12, 2-5 p.m. - Sandy Alpert, opening reception at Project Basho Gallery, 1305 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19122. 215-238-0928
Sun. 2/13, 2:30-5:30 p.m. - Janice Wood Wetzel and Deena Weintraub, opening reception at Broadway Mall Community Center, Broadway at West 96th Street, traffic island
An image by Sandy Alpert was selected for the ONWARD ’11 exhibition at Project Basho Gallery in Philadelphia, PA from 2/12-3/27. Six hundred and fourteen photographers from twenty-two countries submitted 2,240 photographs, and the final selection included the work of sixty-three photographers. == Susan Falzone has work in Moment of Recognition, at ICP’s Education Gallery, NYC from 1/21-3/20. == Barbara Freedman has a solo exhibition, From Ancient to Modern: Mixed Media on Paper, at the Koslowe Judaica Gallery at the Westchester Jewish Center in Mamaroneck, NY from 1/13-3/31. == Work by Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin is featured in A woman’s work is never done, at A.I.R. Gallery in DUMBO, Brooklyn from 1/5-30. Also, one image by Ann was selected for Urban View – Rural Sight: Documenting a Sense of Place, at the Mpls Photo Center in Minneapolis, MN from 1/14-2/21. == On 1/5, Roz Rosenblum will judge a photo competition for Gateway Photographers in Staten Island, and on 1/19, she will present a lecture, “What Judges Look For,€ at the same location. == Lynn Saville has a solo exhibition, Lynn Saville Photographs, at Schneider Gallery in Chicago from 1/7-2/26. == Janice Wood Wetzel and Deena Weintraub co-curated Memory Lingers On, a photography show at the West Side Arts Coalition from 1/26-2/13.
Current Exhibitions
Sheila Bernard has work at ACL Gallery, 1170 Town Center Way, Livingston, NJ from 9/15-1/4. == Photographs by Irma Bohórquez-Geisler have been in an on-going exhibition since 9/1 at ArtHaus NY, 143 Beach Street, Staten Island, NY 10304. == Katherine Criss is in a four-person invitational exhibition, Breaking Ground, at Omni Gallery, 333 Earle Ovington Boulevard, Uniondale, NY 11553 (opposite Nassau Coliseum), from 9/19-1/9. Call 631-589-3093. == Susan Falzone has work in HumanKind, part of the New York Photo Festival, at PowerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn 11201, from 12/17-1/20. Call 718-666-3049, or 1-866-99-ARENA, or go to: http://humankind.newyorkphotofestival.com/index.php == Myrna Harrison-Changar has work in the Winter Wonderland Art Exhibition at United Hebrew Home, 391 Pelham Road, New Rochelle, NY 10805 from 12/1-2/28. Please call 914-632-2804 or go to: http://www.uhgc.org == Catherine Kirkpatrick has two pieces in Gentrification, at Brooklyn Artists Gym, 168 7th Street #3, Brooklyn, NY 11215-3153 from 12/18-1/8. Call 718-858-9069. == Debbie Miracolo has a solo exhibition, The Change Agents, at Arrojo Studio, 180 Varick Street, NYC from 11/17-1/26. Call 212-242-7786 or go to: http://www.arrojostudio.com == Several images by Dianora Nicollini are in the permanent collection at Harn Museum, at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Currently, her work is displayed at the Harn in Figures and Faces, from 12/2010 through 6/2011, alongside nudes by Andy Warhol, Edward Weston and Sally Mann. == Shari Romar‘s solo show, Birds, Bugs and Blooms of the Queens Botanical Garden, is displayed in the gallery space at QBG, on Main Street in Flushing, from 11/27-2/27. Shari is on staff at QBG. Please visit the website at http://www.queenstotanical.org/ for more information, or contact Shari directly at 718-886-3800, ext. 213, or sromar@queensbotanical.org. Winter is a peaceful time to stroll the Garden and photograph this season’s quiet beauty, while inside, the gift shop is full of treasures. == Janice Wood Wetzel and Patricia Gilman are in Seasonings, a show with West Side Arts Coalition at the Rockville Centre Library, 221 North Village Avenue, Rockville Centre, NY from 12/4-1/3. == Pat Yancovitz has work in the Invitational exhibition, at Broome Street Gallery, 498 Broome Street (off West Broadway), NYC from 12/22-1/9. Call 212-941-0130.
Current PWP Group Exhibition
New Visions is at the Show Walls Gallery of The Durst Organization, 1133 Avenue of the Americas (at West 43rd Street), NYC from 12/6-1/15. The show was organized by Sindi Schorr, Trish Mayo, Nyla, PM Simmons, Sheila Smith, Janice Wood Wetzel and Pat Yancovitz. The PWP members in the show are: Gloria Aks, Sandy Alpert, Sheila Archer, Babs Armour, Madeleine Barbara, Kelly Barbieri, Monica Barnes, Terry Berenson, Miriam Berkley, Sheila Bernard, Susan Bowen, Susanna Briselli, Lynne R. Cashman, Giselle Chamma, Sarah Corbin, Karen Corrigan, Fabienne Cuter, Elisa Decker, Adele Epstein, Noel Farese, Carol Fassler, Barbara Freedman, Patricia Garbarini, Jill Gewirtz, Patricia Gilman, Ruth Gitto, Leslie Granda-Hill, Pamela Greene, Linda Katsoulos, Linda Kessler, Catherine Kirkpatrick, Susan Kuhlman, Susan Ledwith, Barbara E. Leven, Andy Mars, Alyce Mayo, Trish Mayo, Mo McDougall, Marina Misiti, Joyce Morrill, Nyla, Shirley Pasternak, Helen Bohmart Pine, Ginger Propper, Laurie Rhodes, Maddi Ring, Linda Roche, Roz Rosenblum, Robin Glasser Sacknoff, Anne Sager, Linda Sandow, Loredana Sangiuliano, Sindi Schorr, Beth Portnoi Shaw, PM Simmons, Nancy Sirkis, Sheila Smith, Diane Smook, Catherine Steinmann, Janice Wood Wetzel, Ilona Willliamson, Ellen Stockdale Wolfe, Pat Yancovitz and Susan Zigman.
Recent Exhibitions
Sandy Alpert showed five images in Black & White Art, at K.A.S. Gallery, in Louisville, KY from 10/29-12/10. == Lore Behrendt and Myrna Harrison-Changer had work in Women in the Arts Comes to Broadway, at the West Side Arts Coalition, NYC from 12/15-1/2. == Gail Gregg had a solo exhibition, The Album Series, at Luise Ross Gallery, NYC from 10/14-11/13. It was a drawing project in which Gail used old photo albums to address the subject of memory and loss. == Marilyn Kaggen had a solo exhibition, City: Black and White photographs by Marilyn Kaggen, at the Hope and Anchor Diner, Red Hook, Brooklyn from 10/25-11/27. == Alyce Mayo, Barbara Leven, Pat Garbarini and Ruth Gitto had photographs in Inspired by Nature, an exhibit comprising over one hundred images by fifty members of the New York City Sierra Club Photography Committee, at Calumet Photo Gallery, NYC from 11/2-26. The show was juried and curated by Barbara Koppelman. == Trish Mayo had work in Nature’s Palatte, at Wave Hill House, the Bronx, from 11/15-12/31. == Meryl Meisler had an installation, “Unlocked,€ in collaboration with Patricia O’Brien, in Art from Detritus: Recycling with Imagination, a group show at Viridian Gallery, NYC from 11/16-12/4. == Linda Sandow had work in Body Image, a two-part multi-media exhibition at Pen and Brush, NYC from 11/11-12/5. == Ann Tracy was in Small but Mighty, a group show at Sacramento Temporary Contemporary Gallery in Sacramento, CA from 11/11-12/11. == Pat Yancovitz had her first solo show, New Work, at Hampton Bays Library, in Hampton Bays, NY from 10/30-11/27.
Recent PWP Group Exhibition
Art of Commerce, organized by Sindi Schorr, Trish Mayo, PM Simmons and Susan Zigman, was at the Office of the Borough President of Manhattan, NYC from 10/4-29. The members in the show were: Asha Agnish, Terry Berenson, Nancy Campbell, Karen Corrigan, Elisa Decker, Adele Epstein, Carol Fassler Marilyn Kaggen, Linda Katsoulos, Catherine Kirkpatrick, Susan Kuhlman, Susan Ledwith, Barbara Leven, Andy Mars, Trish Mayo, Marina Misiti, Joyce Morrill, Maddi Ring, Robin Glasser Sacknoff, Linda Sandow, Sindi Schorr, PM Simmons, Nancy Sirkis, Sheila Smith, Janice Wood Wetzel, Ilona Williamson, Pat Yancovitz and Susan Zigman.
Other News
Paula Berg was a winner of the Unnoticed Beauty photography competition, celebrating the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Clinton Hill, and Fort Greene. Her photo was displayed at an exhibition on 11/12 at Launchpad, a gallery in Crown Heights, and it was also included in a book and digital map. == During two weekends in December, Irma Bohórquez-Geisler sold her images at holiday fairs in Brooklyn and Manhattan. == Images from Sandra Gottlieb‘s 2009 summer series won First Place in the Nature-Water category of the PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2010 competition. The photos will appear in an up-coming exhibition in Paris, and will also be published in the 2010 PX3 Annual Book of competition winners. == Barbara Leven won a great prize, a 24″ x 36″ print and gallery plexi mount, in Baboo Color Labs Haiku Contest. The poems had to be about photography, and here is what Barbara wrote: “Life painted by sun, brushed with light and shadow, recorded by man.€ Also, Barbara received four Honorable Mentions in three categories of the Professional Division of the 2010 International Photography Awards. IPA is a sister-effort of the Lucie Foundation. == On 11/17, Andy Mars presented a Mixed Media Photography Workshop for the members of PWP. == A photo by Elizabeth Niesuchouski was chosen to illustrate a Jones Soda bottle label. == On 12/6, Roz Rosenblum judged the Manhattan Miniature Photo competition at the Community Church, NYC. == On 10/8, Shoshana Rothaizer presented a PowerPoint display of photographs at an academic conference at the CUNY graduate school, NYC. Shoshana is grateful to Monica Barnes, the tireless professional wizard who provided many hours of scanning, retouching and creative intelligence, to bring this project to life. == Ann Marie Rousseau won a $2500 award from the HARC Foundation for her photography project, “Surveillance Frameworks,€ and as part of the award, a solo exhibition of her work was the centerpiece of a gala event at Highways Gallery in Santa Monica, CA on 10/30. == A photo exhibit by Deborah Terry was part of the International Lifeline Fund 2010 Fund Raiser at Longview Gallery in Washington, D.C. on 10/26. == Two PWP members won Julia Margaret Cameron Awards. Jackie Weisberg received an Honorable Mention for a portfolio, and Joan Katz won a Second Place in the portrait category. This juried show was sponsored by WPGA (the World Photography Gala Awards). A book of all the awardees, The Julia Cameron Awards 2010, was published in November, and an exhibition is planned in Buenos Aires, Argentina in August 2011. Additionally, the overall winners will appear in ZOOM magazine.
Publications
Six photos by Sandy Alpert, from her series “Ghosts Who Now Dance,€ were featured in PHOTOBOOK NYC, a new project by Photo District News in conjunction with Blurb, which includes thirty-five New York City photographers. Publication of this special edition book coincided with PhotoPlus Expo, at the Javits Center, NYC from 10/28-30. == Monica Barnes has been scanning, studying, and annotating a collection of approximately 5,000 negatives taken during the 1960s at the large Inca site of Huánuco Pampa in central Peru . These are housed at the American Museum of Natural History. A short article incorporating two of these photos was posted on the Antiquity website and is part of the December 2010 issue of that journal. To read Monica’s article and see the photographs go to: http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/barnes326/ == Two photographs by Ardith Bondi appeared in The New York Times. They were first published online on the City Room blog on Sunday, 10/31, and again in the printed version, on Page A24, on 11/1. To view the image, go to: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/library-warbler-barron/?hp == The October 2010 issue of Art in America has a review by Elisa Decker of 99-year-old Will Barnet’s show of recent abstract paintings that were shown at Alexandre Gallery on 57th Street. == A black and white landscape photograph by Nancy Dowling was a finalist in the Worldwide Photo Gala Awards, and it will be published in a book, Urban and Country Landscapes, in January. == Four images by Sandra Gottlieb accompany the text in a newly released book, ONE: The Mind Aware, copyright 2010 by New Momentum for Human Unity Productions. A sample, including Sandra’s image, “Horizontal #20, can be viewed at: http://www.newmomentumforhumanunity.org/pictsUSERS/One_Book_Sample.pdf == An image by Ethel Kambourian won the Bronze Award in a special February 2011 issue of Black and White Magazine. Ethel also won Hot Shots Awards in the Spring and Summer 2011 issues of Digital Camera and Better Photos Now magazines. == Marina Misiti, who is based in Rome, had an image in PWP’s Art of Commerce exhibition. An article in Elifestyle magazine mentions Marina and Professional Women Photographers. Go to: http://issuu.com/elifestyle/docs/autumn10/119 == Two images by Dianora Nicollini are included in, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at Twenty Years: The Collection Catalog, 2010, newly released in December. == Shoshana Rothaizer‘s photographs and writing were published in the anthology, In the Spirit of We’Moon: Celebrating 30 Years, released by Mother Tongue Ink in December. For more information, please go to: http://www.wemoon.ws/anth.html == In October, Hirmer Verlag (Munich) published New York City Gardens, photographed by Betsy Pinover Schiff, in English, French and German, with a U.S. launch at Rizzoli Bookshop on 57th Street in Manhattan. It is being distributed in major bookstores throughout Europe as well as at numerous bookshops in the New York metropolitan area and on Amazon.com. A review in The New York Times on 10/31 described the book as “an ambrosial paean to public and private spaces.€ == A review by Carson Ferri-Grant of PWP‘s group show, Objects of Affection, appeared on Newsblaze.com. Check it out at: http://newsblaze.com/story/20100801163552zzzz.nb/topstory.html
Self-Published Books
Janice Wood Wetzel recently self-published a photo book called Faces of Morocco.
On the Web
Monica Barnes has been scanning, studying, and annotating a collection of approximately 5,000 negatives taken during the 1960s at a large Inca site in Peru. Please see “Publications€ for a complete write-up. To view a short article posted on the Antiquity website, which is part of the December 2010 issue of that journal, go to: http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/barnes326/ == A series of photographs Paula Berg, entitled “The Resurrection,€ is in Telling A Story, an exhibit sponsored by the Worldwide Photography Awards (WPGA). Beginning on 2/1, the images will appear for one year in Wonderpick, the online gallery of WPGA, and subsequently will be considered for second screening prizes and inclusion in a hard cover book. Go to: http://www.wonderpick.com == Two photographs by Ardith Bondi appeared in The New York Times on 10/31 and 11/1. (Detailed information is listed in “Publications.€) To view the images, go to: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/library-warbler-barron/?hp == An image by Karen Corrigan received an Honorable Mention in Single Image in the Worldwide Photo Gala Awards (WPGA) Black and White Competition. All the winners can be viewed at:
http://www.thegalaawards.net/announcements/black-a-white == Leslie Granda-Hill was interviewed by Paul Giguere for the podcast “Thoughts on Photography.€ Posted on 10/24, the interview can be found at: http://www.thoughtsonphotography.com/. Also, an image from Leslie Granda-Hill‘s “Coming Home€ photo documentary project on wounded soldiers, was used by Geoffrey Beene in an national ad campaign promoting their contribution to Project Heal. The ads appeared throughout the U.S. through December. Go to: http://www.lghphoto.com/updates-page1.html == Barbara Leven has ten images for sale in the store of the Museum of Modern Photography, an online museum. Go to: http://www.mmpca.org/catalog/9?page=3 == Open House New York (OHNY) selected one photo by Trish Mayo for their 2010 Focus on Architecture photography competition in the Exterior category. Go to: http://ohny.wordpress.com/2010/11/22/focus-on-architecture-competition-winners-2/ == London International Photography, a large photography-based online magazine, has spotlighted an image by our Italian-based member Marina Misiti. Go to: http://www.londonphotography.org.uk/exhibitions/2010/12/07/marina-misiti-in-new-visions-new-york/ Another article, in Italian, can be found at: http://donneconlavaligia.wordpress.com/2010/12/10/marina-misiti-con-new-visions-espone-di-nuovo-a-new-york/ == An article about Debbie Miracolo and the project “The Change Agents,€ is on the PDN PhotoServe website. Titled “Louisa J. Cursis of ChatterCorner with Debbie Miracolo,€ the link for the article is: http:www.pdnonline.com/pdn/photoserve/Louisa-J-Curtis-of–1099.shtml == Lynn Saville was interviewed on BOMBSITE, the website for Bomb Magazine. Go to:
http://bombsite.com/issues/999/articles/3668 == Three images by Jackie Weisberg won Honorable Mention at the Women in Photography International contest FACES 2010. To see Jackie’s photos, go to: http://tinyurl.com/27jkaw4, http://tinyurl.com/26qczhd and http://tinyurl.com/2fhghtu. == The online exhibition is now open for PWP‘s 35th Anniversary International Women’s Call for Entry, including thirteen award-winning images. Also included are twenty Juror’s Selections and thirty-five Honorable Mentions. The physical exhibition will open on 6/1 at Soho Photo Gallery. The online exhibition will be displayed through 5/14/11. To view it, please go to: http://www.pwponline.org/display_exhibition_winners.php?s=16. Also, please see additional information in “Up-Coming Exhibitions€ just below!
Up-Coming Exhibitions
Four PWP members received recognition in PWP’s 35th Anniversary International Open Call for Entry, which will open on 6/1. Fran Dickson won a Jurors’ Selection, and Honorable Mentions went to Sandy Alpert, Leslie Granda-Hill, and Tequila Minsky. All award-winning images and Jurors’ Selections will be in a group show at Soho Photo Gallery from 6/1-14, and award-winning images, Jurors’ Selections and Honorable Mentions are currently in an online exhibition on the PWP website from 11/15-5/14. Terry Berenson, Adele Epstein, Patricia Gilman, Catherine Kirkpatrick and Maddi Ring helped with this fund-raising project.
Perspectives on Time, organized by Janice Wood Wetzel, Pat Yancovitz and Trish Mayo, will be at the Callahan Gallery at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights from 3/2-31.
A Woman’s World, organized by Sindi Schorr, will be at Macy’s Herald Square from 3/2-23.
Kudos is open to general, student and lifetime members, and is updated the first of each month. For future PWP newsletters and inclusion online, please send information to Shoshana via the U.S. mail or cyberspace. The printed version is distributed at PWP’s monthly meetings, and the online version is at our website. Go to: http://pwponline.org/blog, and then click on Kudos.
e-mail: shoshanaphoto@yahoo.com
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