A Photography Blog

Did you get a pile of residency rejections this month? Me too! Was your long term photo project (the one on which you had pinned many of your 2009 hopes and dreams) just canceled due to swine flu? Mine too!

Wow, what a coincidence.

Luckily, we have folks like Leah Oates around, who recently sent out a cheery mailing with a very useful roster of things to apply for (get back on el caballo).  Here are some of Leah’s easy breezy pictures; her list of info follows.

Transitory Space, Finland, 2006

Transitory Space, Finland, 2006

Transitory Space, Web 1, 2007

Transitory Space, Double House, 2007

Transitory Space, Newfoundland, 2008

Paradura 3, 2003

CONTEST/GRANTS/RESIDENCIES:

http://www.womenarts.org/fund/

http://www.artcalendar.com/adlisting/index.asp?EntryFee=0

http://www.pennymccallfoundation.org/resources.html

http://www.crt.state.la.us/arts/GrantOutline.shtml

http://www.pkf.org/grant.html

http://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/grant_programs/artists_grants.html

http://www.georgesugarman.com/framepage.html

http://www.calfund.org/receive/fellowships.php

http://www.creative-capital.org/application/

http://www.cciarts.org/funding.htm#

http://www.puffinfoundation.org/grants/prospectiveapplicant.html

http://www.skylarkfoundation.com/

http://www.remahortmannfoundation.org/visualarts.php

http://www.joanmitchellfoundation.org/mission.html

http://irvine.org/grants_program/howto/strong_proposal.shtml

http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/Public/GrantsProgram/BecomingaFellow/indexcfm

http://www.artadia.org/forartists.html

http://artmattersfoundation.org/contact.html

http://printedmatter.org/about/index.cfm?email=&cookie1=5257074.9&return=/index.cfm

http://www.creativetime.org/index.php

http://www.diacenter.org/

http://www.atoa.ws/

http://www.nationalcollage.com/

http://www.newamericanpaintings.com/

http://afonline.artistsspace.org/

http://www.drawingcenter.org/viewingprogram/submissions_guidelines.cfm

http://www.artpace.org/programs.php#travelGrant

http://www.kcai.edu/artspace/artist/

http://www.bemiscenter.org/residency/

http://www.chinati.org/information/artist-in-residence.php

http://artsusa.org/news/afta_news/default.asp#item1

ARTS ORGANIZATIONS (with free membership)

http://www.nyfa.org/login.asp?id=8

http://artistsregister.com/opportunities.phtml

http://www.artscams.com/

http://www.artisthelpnetwork.com/

http://www.iapaa.org/memberlist.html

http://www.artmotelradio.com/

http://art2102.org/pages/about.html

http://www.makcenter.org/MAK_General_Info.php

http://www.cca.rca.ac.uk/docs/application/index.html

http://losangeles.foryourart.com/

http://beautifuldecay.com/mission/

http://dailydujour.com/

http://www.artslant.com/

Here’s a link for some more stuff, if you’re bionic haven’t had your fill.

Friends! I need a little assistance and I thought I might ask you to help me out.  You see: I need help doing something I am not able to do myself (picture above is an allegory of sorts).

No- I do not need a close shave. But I DO need help with this here blog. Very succinctly- I need a clever developer/designer gal or gent to help me migrate my content from this Movable Type situation into a WordPress blog. I’ve got the template all ready to go, I’ll just need a few tweaks here and there in the ‘ole CSS.

My skills oh so varied (I am great with a rifle), but sometimes these web things leave me flailing about and looking for cover.

So! Can you help me out?

What’s in it for you:

1. I will pimp you out relentlessly on this blog. Believe it or not, this thing gets a fair amount of readers, and I will tell them all about you and your prowess.

2. Cash. But a reasonable amount. We’ll talk.

3. A print of mine (ooh la la).

4. Undying gratitude.

Anyone, anyone? Bueller, etc?

ps. picture above: Circa 1914. “National Guard Camp.” National Photo Co.

From Shorpy:

Washington, D.C., circa 1919. “Mrs. John Nolan, children’s party.” Agood if eerie example of what happens when the shutter opens before theflash goes off. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.

Click on the image to make it larger… if you dare….

Here is my requisite I’m-obsessed-with-Abe-Morell-did-I-tell-you post; I make one every couple of months, every time I see some more of his work. So here are the latest jaw-droppers:

Camera Obscura: 5:04 AM Sunrise Over the AtlanticOcean. Rockport, Massachusetts, June 17th, 2009

Camera Obscura: View of Florence Looking Northwest Inside Bedroom. Italy, 2009

Camera Obscura: View of Landscape Outside Florence in Room With Bookcase. Italy, 2009

Camera Obscura: View of Landscape Outside Florence Looking East Toward Where Galileo Died in Exile. Italy, 2009

Camera Obscura: Garden With Olive Tree Inside Room With Plants, Outside Florence. Italy, 2009

*These two aren’t as new but I hadn’t seen them yet, and Whoa.

Santa Maria della Salute in Palazzo Livingroom. Venice, Italy, 2006

The Philadelphia Museum of Art, East Entrance in Gallery #171 with a deChirico Painting, 2006

OK, moving on from Morell- I wanted to post some of Matthew Monteith‘s pictures from his project Czech Eden. It seems like several excellent folks have made pictures here, and they always turn out rather well (check out Marni Horwitz’s work a few posts down).

ALSO- It seems like this great nation attracts a lot of nudists. Or perhaps the weather is just balmy.

Have a pleasant Monday.

I paused last night, perplexed, while finishing the New York Magazine article about Jared Kushner and his power/money. Read this little ditty from the end of the piece:
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“Jared shows me around his sparely decorated office. His mood lifts when he points to a framed Garry Winogrand photograph of JFK that leans against the wall beside to his desk. ‘I saw this photo and was just obsessed with it,’ he says. ‘I had to buy it as part of a series. The rest are in a box.’ The photograph shows JFK from behind as he delivers his 1960 Democratic Convention speech. A television set in the foreground broadcasts JFK’s face from the front.

‘I love the juxtaposition of him looking that way and seeing him the other way. I love the glow in his face,’ Jared says with a smile. ‘I look at it all the time.”
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GAH!! Good lord, rich young sir- run your newspapers into the ground, but don’t put your Winogrands in a box! Therefore, Kush, I humbly ask that you rescue those Winogrands from the sad receptacle and send them my way. I can only wonder at which gems you have. The one with the monkeys?!

Central Park Zoo, 1967

Or this one? This one I love.

New York, 1970

I do wonder which dealer saw money rolling around in your irises and made you buy 12 for 1. MoMa‘s got these. And Fraenkel Gallery. Maybe one of them.

In any case- I’d take this old man off your hands.

Untitled, 1960

Or this one. He’s reminds me of Milton Waddams.

New York City, 1968

Kush, do you have the Texans?

Fort Worth, Texas, 1974

Or the scary Utah beast?

Utah, 1964

Or even the pretty iconic beast?

Marilyn Monroe on the set of  Seven Year Itch, 1960

Call me, JK.

ps. Ivanka’s a babe.

Wow, you folks just about burned me at the stake for that Dash post. You’re some tough customers- apparently you don’t like semen in your art, whaaa?

Anyway, today is breezy muggy breezy muggy, happy sad happy sad. It makes me feel like flowy curtains, deck chairs in the moonlight, impending Fall…

Good thing there are folks like Marni Horwitz and Jeff Jacobson making imagery to match my mood. Here are four from each. Enjoy.

Ms. Horwitz:

Mr Jacobson:

Just a quick ditty here on the passing of Dash Snow- despite all his critics, the man had some Polaroids that were just beautiful and raw. Here are a few, via Tiny Vices.