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This was the final exhibition in the trilogy and illustrated photographers’ keen observation of streets, walls, windows and billboards to send messages using words and symbols. Other images, more in the tradition of “street photography”, are included for perspective on an artist’s work. Including the photography of: Wolf Suschitzky, Aaron Siskind, Peter Sekaer, Arnold Newman, Thomas Neff, John Gutmann, Walker Evans, Berenice Abbott and Jules Aaron. It features the newly discovered work of Vivian Maier. Select to view the exhibition.
Lumière is pleased to announce the addition of a portfolio by photographer Al Weber, to the Collectors Edition Portfolios.
This portfolio, selected in consultation with the artist, represents work from a 2011 exhibition of his photographs at the Center for Photography Arts in Carmel California. Al Weber’s career in photography spans six decades. The subjects of his work run the gamut from aerial and architectural photography to portraits, abstracts, and imagery of the American Southwest.
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This exhibition featured works deploying the visual power of photography to communicate an understanding and appreciation of the great American wilderness.
These photographers have captured the beauty and form of nature…using pictorialism, abstraction and unusual lighting effect to communicate a story or to stimulate the viewer’s innate imagination. Their work has often provided the foundation for major conservation movements. Select to view the exhibition.
Including photography by: Philip Hyde, Ansel Adams, Edna Bullock, Peter Essick, Robert Glenn Ketchum, Tom Murphy, Bradford Washburn, Edward Weston & Brett Weston
Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935
29 October 2011—22 January 2012
London’s, Royal Academy of Arts – Sackler Wing of Galleries
Recently opened in London England, Richard Pare’s work from The Lost Vanguard is on view at the Royal Academy of Arts. For more specific information on the exhibition, SELECT HERE, a review from The Guardian can be SEEN HERE, (links open new windows).
Richard Pare comments on the Shabolovka Radio Tower
This exhibition explored one of the most exceptional periods in the history of architecture, from the years just prior to the October Revolution until the foundation of the U.S.S.R. First shown in 2007 at The Museum of Modern Art (NY), this work is an important contribution to the history of both photography and architecture. The flamboyant age of Russian modernity, in the 15 years following the October 1917 Revolution, was hardly recognized before it came to an abrupt end. After the fall of the communist experiment in 1991, structures employing modernist era design and construction methods were rapidly disappearing. In a short period of time nearly a quarter of the buildings that were to have been protected were razed or disfigured. Richard Pare, a master photographer and curator of architectural photography, developed this body of work to record these interior and exterior designs before they succumbed to redevelopment.
“Richard Pare’s (work) opens windows onto the substantially unknown architectural manifestations of a period characterized by unprecedented artistic, social and cultural flights of imagination.” – Phyllis Lambert, Founding Director, Canadian Centre for Architecture
Photographer Peter Essick was recently featured in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, (October 27, 2011). The article was in response to a photographic essay, on the Ansel Adams Wilderness, in the October issue of National Geographic Magazine. Adams was an early influence on Essick’s photographic career, follow this LINK to read the entire article.
Lumière featured Essick’s work in a one person exhibition, Depth Of Field: Compositions In Nature, (October 2010) and is proud to offer his work for sale, including a limited edition Collector’s Portfolio.
Below are links to many other resources on our site, that feature Peter’s work.
Our previous exhibition, Politics and the Utopian Dream, addressing the broader theme of Photography as Propaganda, was recently reviewed by Robert Stalker on the web site: ArtsCriticATL. Follow the link to read the entire review. (opens new browser window).
The exhibition was extended to Saturday November 5th, the second installment under the Photography as Propaganda theme: Messages from the Wilderness opened on Saturday November 12
September 21, 2011: Dr. Anthony Bannon, the Director of George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, discussed the use of photography throughout history to communicate powerful messages and create lasting cultural icons. The program, part of the Annual Lumiere Lecture Series, was offered in collaboration with the High Museum of Art and Atlanta Celebrates Photography.
The audio clip below is a small excerpt is from his closing remarks, as he discusses the nature of the single photographic image and speculates on future of the medium of photography…
Biographical Information:
Dr. Anthony Bannon is the Director of George Eastman House – International Museum of Photography and Film: the world’s oldest and largest independent museum dedicated to photography and film. He has held that position since 1996. Prior to his time at Eastman House, he served as director of Burchfield-Penney Art Center, director of cultural affairs on the campus of State University of New York, College at Buffalo and as an editor and art critic with The Buffalo News. He has also worked as a filmmaker.
Dr. Bannon has lectured at museums, colleges, and festivals worldwide. He currently serves as chairman of the Lucie Awards/International Photography Awards. In 2007, Bannon and was awarded the Golden Career Award by the FOTOfusion Festival of Photography & Digital Imaging for his “far-reaching leadership and scholarship in the cultural community.”
Bannon’s 15-year tenure at George Eastman House has resulted in major acquisitions, alliances with museums and universities, innovative conservation efforts, as well as the creation of three post-graduate preservation schools and collectors clubs in large American cities.
Follow the link to see the entire article and read the colorful account of Khaldei’s life. A more complete biography of Khaldei’s life can be found here in the Archive Section of our web site, and a gallery of additional images by Khaldei on his artist page.
Our new exhibition, Photography as Propaganda – Politics and the Utopian Dream, recently opened at Lumière and features eight photographs by Khaldei. The 70+ print exhibition includes 3 variation of his most famous image: Raising The Hammer & Sickle over the Reichstag, May of 1945.
The exhibition illustrates how artistic expression and creativity can coexist with photography’s ability to abstract time and space, providing a potent vehicle with which to communicate a point of view.
Whether migrating a nation to a utopian social and economic order or framing public policy debates, the power of the photographic image was used effectively in the 20th Century by both totalitarian and democratic leaders.
This exhibition illustrates its’ power to inform and influence. It reminds us of the future impact potential of imagery to amplify ideas using an array of new electronic technologies.
Including photography by: Boris Ignatovich, Dorothea Lange, Yevgeny Khaldei, Peter Sekaer, Ivan Shagin John Gutmann, Alexandr Ustinov, Rondal Partridge, Max Alpert & Georgi Zelma
Now on view, selections from 6 master photographers, images display a wide diversity of subject, process, and styles. View a Preview of the Exhibition.
Photography by Jon Kolkin, April 30 – June 25, 2011
Kolkin’s work explores the landscape, capturing the motion of water where it meets the earth. It utilizes camera movement, combined with the photographic element of time, to create evocative images. The photographs display a sense of graphic design and they speak to the universal theme of harmony and balance.
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Biographical Information: Kolkin received his undergraduate and doctor of medicine degrees from Emory University, and has been a practicing hand surgeon for over 29 years. Now retired from daily practice, he travels the world as a medical volunteer. Kolkin’s work is also included in corporate & museum collections as diverse as the Carter Center for International Peace, Emory University, the Maine Museum of Photographic Art, Bank of America and the Ritz Carlton Corporation. Most recently (July 2010) he was the recipient of Color Magazine’s Spotlight Award.
In his sixth book Glorious Days and Nights: A Jazz Memoir, Herb Snitzer looks back on a career of photographing jazz musicians, (University of Mississippi Press, 2011).
After graduation from the University of the Arts (Philadelphia College of Art, 1957), Snitzer, headed for New York. One of his first free lance assignments was to cover the legendary, tenor sax player, Lester Young, at the Five Spot Café, in 1958. Shooting at night with available light he created an enduring image of Young, holding his instrument case, wearing his signature porkpie hat. The scene is backlit by a storefront and there is a sign projecting from the building that reads “Newly Decorated Furnished Rooms.” The musician with arm outstretched is pointing to something while engaged in a conversation with an unidentified man.
With this earliest image Snitzer launched a career and also, in embryo, established a style that identifies many of the key works among the 84 photographs selected for the book. While there are many studies of musicians in performance he sought out access back stage, on buses, in bars and hotels. As much as possible he attempted to get close and personal. There are many intimate portraits that compellingly convey trust as well as proximity.
As the subtitle of the book conveys this reaches beyond a portfolio of beautiful images (84) of now mostly deceased masters of the art form. In the accompanying 42 page text Snitzer relates a life depicting the jazz world to which he had unique and often challenging access.
Note: the book can be ordered on Amazon, (the customer reviews are insightful). Please contact the gallery if you would like to set an appointment to see and discuss Snitzer’s photography.
Katrina Portraits currently at the Louisiana State Museum
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An exhibition of 14 photographs by Thomas Neff is on view until September 12, 2011 at the The Presbytere (751 Chartres Street, New Orleans). The images are from Neff’s work: Holding Out and Hanging On: Surviving Hurricane Katrina. These moving portraits, of individuals who rode out Hurricane Katrina in 2005, are traditional silver gelatin prints recorded with a large format (5×7) camera.
This work was featured in the Lumière exhibition: Southern Exposures in June of 2008.
The Louisiana State Museum is mounting a series of changing exhibitions, lectures and events as part of a permanent exhibition Living with Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond.
The Center for Photographic Art
June 4 – July 30, 2011
Carmel California
An Exhibition featuring Aerial Photography by Al Weber opened June 4th at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel California, published with this exhibition is a 56 page catalog. Weber’s work was featured in the 2010 Lumière exhibition Picturing the West.
Al Weber’s career in photography spans six decades and illustrates mastery of both black-and-white and color processes. The subjects of his commercial assignments and personal work run the gamut from aerial, industrial, architectural, portraiture, abstractions and imagery of the American West. His photographs have been shown in over 200 exhibitions, corporate clients include Dupont, Eastman Kodak, Polaroid and Hasselblad. Weber’s photographs are in the numerous permanent collections including The Art Institute of Chicago, M. H. de Young Museum, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
Sunday May 22, 2011 – You will find very entertaining article in the Sunday New York Times, Travel Section: On Virginia’s Crooked Road, Mountain Music Lights the Way. This subject is also the central theme of Tim Barnwell’s most recent book Hands in Harmony; Traditional Crafts and Music in Appalachia. It was released (October 2009) by W. W. Norton & Company, publisher of Barnwell’s previous two books: The Face of Appalachia (2003) and On Earth’s Furrowed Brow (2007). The book is a continuation of the artist’s 30+ year body of work documenting the people, places, musicians, and craftsmen of Appalachia. The book also includes an audio CD with performances by 22 musicians photographed for the project, and is already receiving critical success.
Reviewed in the New York Times, November 27, 2009, By Dwight Garner. Hands In Harmony: Traditional Crafts And Music In Appalachia, by Tim Barnwell (W. W. Norton & Company). “This excellent collection of black-and-white portraits and oral histories documents the lives of the makers of Appalachian music and traditional handicrafts, and arrives with a wickedly fine CD. There are photographs here of some well-known people (Doc Watson, Ralph Stanley, Bill Monroe), but the best are of unknown artists. Without Appalachian music, Jan Davidson writes in the forward, ”there would be no Joan Baez, no Bob Dylan the folk singer, and surely no Grateful Dead.”” Go to the NY Times review
Use the audio player below to hear an excerpt of Clyde Davenport’s fiddle.
The first of a two part series addressing pictures in motion, this exhibition of Stephen Lawson’s work is unique. The qualities conveyed by both subject matter and time frame incent the viewer’s engagement and interpretation.
“The photo-based works grow from my background as a sculptor. These are four dimensional in concept and execution, but only two in the presentation. The concept of space and time is reconstructed in the mind of the viewer, “ states Lawson.
The technical creativity involved in the concept, design, production and operation of the one-of-a-kind cameras required to produce these time based works has evolved over the years and relies on Lawson’s distinct talents.
The year and day-long works could be thought of as bringing a concentrated gaze; the brief, dynamic shots read as a glance, in the turn of the head, as the eye itself sees, before the mind edits this to a visual memory, often as a “still”. Indeed, all of the images could be thought of as movies presented as stills.
Below is a 12 minute video Produced and Directed by John Nakashima of West Virginia Public Broadcasting (2002), it provides an illuminating overview into Lawson’s work and his evolution as an artist.
This program was the second in the series. It complemented the Museum of Modern Art, (NY) major retrospective: Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Modern Century, exhibited at the High Museum of Art, Feb. – May 2011.
The images were selected from Lumière’s collection and featured master photographers of the twentieth century whose work overlapped that of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Including work by: André Kertész, Helen Levitt, Yevgeny Khaldei, John Gutmann, Marc Riboud, Bert Hardy, Dorothea Lange, Boris Ignatovich and Edward Weston.
Lumiere is please to post a Virtual Photography Fair, featuring 12 photographers. Follow this LINK to view the on-line exhibition, you can also see a deeper selection of images for each photographer on the “Artists” page of the web site. Additional photographers selected for the fair include, Richard Pare, John Gutmann, Al Weber, Douglas Keats, Stephen Lawson and Tim Barnwell
Lumière Collectors Edition™: a series of portfolios featuring the work of established artists, curated by Lumière. They represent exceptional, compatible examples of each artist’s work. The initial offering of six portfolios each contain five editioned photographs, matted and packaged in an attractive linen portfolio box with descriptive inset pages. Pricing for the portfolios range from $1,800 – $3,500.
Call the gallery (@ 404-261-6100) or E-MAIL for more information.
Al Weber
This portfolio, selected in consultation with the artist, represents work from a 2011 exhibition of his photographs at the Center for Photography Arts in Carmel California. Al Weber’s career in photography spans six decades. The subjects of his work run the gamut from aerial and architectural photography to portraits, abstracts, and imagery of the American Southwest.
Wynn Bullock (1902-1975) is viewed by history as one of the masters of photography. Selected for this portfolio are five classic Bullock images that span the breadth of his artistic career. Along with Frederick Sommer, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind and Ansel Adams, Bullock was one of the five founding photographers whose archives established the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, AZ in 1975.
Bullock is best known for his classic black & white photography. However, from late 1959 to early 1965, he explored the beauty and wonder of light itself through his Color Light Abstractions. Due to limitations in printing technology, he was never able to fully share this work before his death in 1975, and it is only recently that it is being brought to life by his heirs. Exhibited for the first time at Lumiere in June 2009, it has since been shown in Beijing, China; Carmel, CA, and Tucson, AZ.
These classic images by Kolbrener, four images from his work centered in Yosemite, a fifth from the rugged coast of California, all illustrate his command of traditional silver gelatin photographic processes. A student of Ansel Adams, Kolbrener carries on a tradition of his predecessors with a vital artistic vision uniquely his own.
Award winning photographer, Peter Essick’s remarkable color landscape photographs from landmark settings throughout the world reveal the stunning spiritual and artistic power of nature. The selection for this portfolio illustrate a broad spectrum of his work and collectively display his ability to reveal the beauty of the natural world.
Murphy’s photography illustrates his passionate love for our wild clean earth. Tom’s understanding of wildlife is apparent from the beginning. He photographs wildlife as they go about their daily lives, patiently waiting for each animal to share its life with him in the wild.
Abstractions – Featuring Tom Murphy & Peter Essick
This portfolio features abstractions drawn from the beauty of nature and framed by two world class photographers: Peter Essick and Tom Murphy. Essick who has traveled the globe contributes two images to the portfolio, one from Fraser Island off the East Coast of Australia, and a second from Finland near the Arctic Circle. Murphy’s contributions of three images are from the area he knows so well, Yellowstone National Park.
We hope you were able to view this exceptional exhibition.
Image Courtesy: Steve and Sue James, Eikon Gallery
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Showcasing more than 130 photographs by famed photographer Ansel Adams, including his most iconic images. The depth, breadth and quality of this exhibition was exceptional.
These photographs were considered by Adams to be some of his “best” prints, they were meticulously produced by the artist himself and given to The Friends of Photography. Adams was one of the founders of this organization, that began in 1967, with the aim of promoting creative photography and supporting its practitioners.
The newspaper clipping is from the Monterey Herald, December of 1970, courtesy of Steve and Sue James/Eikon Gallery. It illustrates Adams’ commitment and support of the Friends of Photography.
More information is available at:The Booth Western Art Museum web site. The Booth is located in Cartersville Georgia, (28 miles north on I-75, exit 288).
Bob Kolbrener was a student of Adams and taught along side him at the Ansel Adams workshops in Yosemite. His work is available to view on-line at his Lumière Artist Gallery, or by appointment.
Peter Essick was recently listed as one of the 40 Most Influential Nature Photographers by Outdoor Photography Magazine. They sited his work for National Geographic Magazine documenting the effects of global warming, placing him twelfth on this list of notable photographers worldwide.
His Lumière exhibition: Depth of Field: Compositions in Nature,
closes tomorrow Saturday December 5th, (10 am – 4 pm).
Below are comments and commentary by Peter Essick that reveal interesting background information on 21 of the images in the current exhibition: Depth of Field, Compositions in Nature. The first three images also have audio clips of Peter Essick providing voice over for the narrative behind these images.
Tracy Arm, Alaska, 1996
It was on a 17 degree March day that I hired a float plane to take me from Juneau, Alaska to Tracy Arm. Read more →
Peter Essick and the current Lumiere exhibition: Depth of Field: Compositions in Nature – photography by Peter Essick.
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Serenby Photography Workshop: November 6, 2010
Fall Colors in the Chattahoochee Hill Country – with Peter Essick
Peter led a seasonal photo tour of the beautiful Chattahoochee Hill countryside in and near the Serenbe Community. This was an SPC “Eye on the World” workshop, photographs from the workshop will be used to help protect and preserve the less-traveled beauty of the Chattahoochee River corridor landscape south of Atlanta. For a complete description of the workshop go the Serenby Photography Center web site.
News from The Nature Conservancy:
On September 29, 2010— Governor Sonny Perdue announced the acquisition of 6,911 acres in Long County as part of the Townsend Wildlife Management Area (WMA). The property is located in the lower Altamaha River floodplain, one of the most valuable ecological corridors in Georgia. The Altamaha River is one of The Nature Conservancy priorities and TNC played a key role in this acquisition. In the January 1998 issue of National Geographic magazine the work of Peter Essick’s provided visual support to these efforts with an article: “Altamaha River: The Easy Ways of the Altamaha.” For complete details visit The Nature Conservancy web site.
ArtsCriticATL: reviews, Compositions in Nature
ArtsCriticATL co-founder Catherine Fox provided an insightful review of our current exhibition. Her review closed with the following quote: “If you don’t leave Essick’s show with a renewed sense of wonder, you’re an awfully jaded cookie.” To read the entire review and to keep up on the Atlanta arts scene, go to ArtsCriticATL.
Lumière has assembled a special selection of photographs with holiday giving in mind. The on-line exhibition includes works from a diverse group of established photographers. Specific size and pricing information is included for your convenience.
To view the on-line exhibition SELECT, or E-MAIL for more information.
One of the highlights of The Lost Vanguard(Lumière exhibition, April – May 2009) were Richard Pare’s photographs of the Melnikov House, listen to his comments on this architectural treasure.
The Lost Vanguard: photography by Richard Pare – An exceptional photographic exhibition of Russian modernist architecture, first shown at The Museum of Modern Art (NY) in 2007. Richard Pare’s decade long project brilliantly records innovative interior and exterior designs. It carried him from Moscow and St. Petersburg to Kiev, the Ukraine and the Baltic Sea resort of Sochi. He created over 10,000 negatives that were the foundation for this exhibition and the accompanying book. The work is a tour de force of architectural innovation and artistic excellence- while providing a unique historical insight into one of the most important periods of the 20th century. View the on-line exhibition (62 images)
Local Related News: The Young Architects of Atlanta in association with AIA recently held a photography competition entitled Envisioning Breuer. This YAF competition aims to challenge photographers to creatively capture images of the Atlanta Central Library designed by Marcel Breuer. The library is a significant example of modernist architecture in Atlanta. For more information visit the YAF web site.
The work of photographer John Gutmann is currently featured in an exhibition at the BJE Jewish Community Library in San Francisco, the exhibition will remain on view until December 16, 2010.
Thursday October 21, 2010: An Evening Celebrating the Life and Work of John Gutmann, included the screening of Jane Levy Reed’s outstanding documentary entitled My Eyes Were Fresh, along with a talk and presentation by Sally Stein entitled A Gulliver in America.
An exhibition of sixty six photographs by John Gutmann’s was previously shown at Lumière, select to view the complete exhibition or to view additional images by Gutmann visit his artist page.
Lumière
425 Peachtree Hills Ave.
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Award winning photographer, Peter Essick’s remarkable color landscape photographs from landmark settings throughout the world reveal the stunning spiritual and artistic power of nature. Essick’s photography has been a key element in over 30 National Geographic articles, including the June, 2010 cover story on Greenland and a September 2010 feature on Fraser Island, Australia. The work has been exhibited in the United States and Europe.
Press Play to hear Peter Essick discuss this photograph
Opening the exhibition, Peter Essick commented on a number of images and his experiences photographing in various geographic regions. This provided a foundation for a candid discussion session.
High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree Street
Hill Auditorium – September 16, 2010
Below is an brief excerpt of Norman Seeff from September 16th. Press play to hear Norman describe the methodology and objective behind his legendary “sessions”.
Norman Seeff, photographer and filmmaker, discussed the results of over 35 years’ work with luminaries such as The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles, Miles Davis, Martin Scorcese, John Huston, Bob Fosse, Steve Jobs, Norman Mailer, Alicia Keys, will.i.am, Sir Francis Krick and many other Nobel winning scientists.
Through millions of feet of film and in person interviews with thousands of artists and innovators of all major creative disciplines, Seeff has explored the inner dynamics of, and documented a new paradigm for, the creative process.
In this program, Seeff showed film clips from The Sessions Project archives, revealing a process rather than goal oriented approach to creativity. This screening and a video of his photographic work included an engaging audience interaction.
Mark Maio stunning photography documenting grain scoopers in the Buffalo New York area is the subject of his series: “Against the Grain”.
This work is featured in current version of LensWork #90. An audio interview and 46 images from the project are included in the multimedia computer disc Extended Version of the magazine, while a one page overview is in the printed version. To preview the edition select this link to go to the LensWork site
Mark’s work was featured in the 2008 Lumière exhibition Southern Exposures. Mark is a master of the technical aspects of the recording and printing photographs that capture the subtlety and power of light, his work is in the permanent collection of the George Eastman House.
The exhibition entitled Ansel Adams: A Legacy showcases more than 100 photographs by Adams. Many of Adams’ most famous images are included and the prints were originally created by the artist himself and given to The Friends of Photography to represent his legacy.
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These comments were recorded at Lumière on May 22, 2010 prior to his artist talk. Murphy’s work was recently featured at an exhibition entitled The Seasons of Yellowstone in Cartersville GA, at the Booth Western Art Museum. His photography illustrates his passionate love for our wild clean earth. Tom’s understanding of wildlife is apparent from the beginning. He photographs wildlife as they go about their daily lives, patiently waiting for each animal to share its life with him in the wild.
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Lumière
The Galleries of Peachtree Hills
425 Peachtree Hills Ave. NE
Atlanta, GA 30309
Thursday August 26, 2010
6:00 – 7:30 PM
Lumière was pleased to host this event celebrating the publication of the new book: Oraien Catledge: Photographs. Oraien was on hand to sign copies, and was joined by Connie Lewis who served as co-editor of the book. Recently published by University Press of Mississippi, the book includes 70 of Oraien’s photographs. There are still several copies of the book available. Come by the gallery during regular gallery hours or e-mail to make arrangements.
Books are $35, payment by cash or check.
Additional photos from the evening by John Ramspott can be found on Flikr.
Additional Biographical Information:
Oraien Catledge was born in Sumner, Mississippi, in 1928, and came to his photographer’s vocation near the end of a long career as a social worker in the state of Mississippi, and as an advocate for the blind throughout the South.
Although principally a photographer of people, Catledge’s sensuous, fastidious black and white work documents the landscapes and cityscapes of Mississippi and New Orleans, as well as imagining and recording the insular, working-class lives of the Cabbagetown neighborhood in center-city Atlanta — the signal achievement upon which his considerable reputation rests.
Bob Kolbrener …noted photographer of the American West …launched an exhibition of his work with a talk at Lumière, Wednesday July 14th. This is the second in the series, Picturing the West.
Press Play to hear comments by Bob Kolbrener.
His subjects …from landscapes to portraits …from symbols of man encroaching on nature to humorous signage …are all carefully and thoughtfully executed.
A show with Brett Weston in Los Angeles over 35 years ago launched his work. Since then, it has been exhibited throughout the United States as well as in Austria, China, Indonesia and Japan.
With photographs in numerous private and corporate collections …including Texaco, Polaroid, Southwestern Bell and A. G. Edwards …his images are also in collections at institutions such as the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Monterey Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art and Washington University.
Kolbrener began conducting workshops with Ansel Adams at Yosemite. In the quarter of a century since, he has continued teaching at other workshop venues in addition to serving as a guest lecturer at a number of universities and museums.
“Kolbrener stands apart because his photographs have a rare technical perfection—every print is ideal and masterful in light, tone, cropping and consistency.” - James D. Burke, Director, Saint Louis Art Museum
Featuring the exceptional photography of Peter Sekaer in the context of other notable artists of the period.
Berenice Abbott Arnold Newman Alexander Rodchenko
Dorothea Lange John Gutmann Rondal Partridge
Sekaer, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1901, immigrated to the United States in 1918. After successfully operating a printing business in New York City producing posters, advertisements and window displays, he enrolled in the Art Students League in 1929 to study painting.
By 1934 Sekaer had left painting behind to study photography with Berenice Abbott. Through his friendship with Walker Evans he secured contracts from 1936 to 1943 to work on assignment as a photographer for various government agencies.
“Sekaer’s photographs show an outsider’s objectivity and detachment coupled with an insider’s commitment and concern for the subject.”
Julian Cox, Curator of Photography, High Museum of Art
June 19, 2010 – Oct. 15, 2010
The Galleries of Peachtree Hills
425 Peachtree Hills Ave., Bldg 5
The Galleries of Peachtree Hills
425 Peachtree Hills Ave.
Building Five
Al Weber joined us from his studio in Carmel, California to discuss lessons learned in six decades as a photographer and teacher.
After almost 20 years teaching with Ansel Adams at his workshops, he founded the Victor School of Creative Arts in Colorado. There, and in numerous programs since, he has shared his insights and perspectives on photography. 200 exhibitions of his photographic artwork, corporate clients from Dupont to Kodak and Hasselblad and major publishers uniquely qualify him to address a wide range of issues.
This program offered a discussion of his perspectives on the art of photography, talking points from images in the current Lumière exhibition …Picturing the West… and provided a lively question and answer session.
Wynn Bullock’s Color Light Abstractions were on view until June 26th at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel California. They were shown for the first time at Lumière in June of 2009, featured in The Color of Light.
Bullock (1902-1975), known for his
innovative, creative images was an explorer of the qualities of light… from light drawings to photograms to solarization. He was fascinated with the endless possibilities of light as a living form and force in its own right rather than simply as an illuminator representing objects as they are normally perceived. He executed this important color work in the early 60’s.
With the advent of modern color printing technologies we are now able to view these images created nearly 50 years ago. Bullock’s descendants are continuing to add to this innovative and captivating body of work. His gallery (on the Lumière web site) has been updated to include additional images not seen in 2009. Below are links to this gallery, and to a video of Dr. Britt Salvesen comments on the importance and historical context of this innovative work that was truly ahead of its time.
This past weekend the iconic actor and member of the counter culture Dennis Hopper passed away. In 2006, Robert Weingarten had the opportunity to work with Hopper. Weingarten, a California based photographer interested in the line between biography and portraiture asks his famous subjects, “What makes you who you are?” Weingarten proposes that “who we are,” is not the physical self that changes over time, but our passions, mottos we live by, memories, experiences, and contributions.
The resulting image, part of the Smithsonian, National Museum of American History, Photographic History Collection, is a translucent composite made with Weingarten’s digital photographs.
The images are based on the list Hopper made describing himself, which acknowledges his influence on American culture and his personal passions.
The director’s chair with his name on it as a reference to the movies he has directed.
The mural based on Hopper’s photograph, “Double Standard” and his camera indicate his work as a photographer.
The painting of the woman is one made by Hopper, the artist.
The Andy Warhol painting of Mao references his modern art collection. The two bullet holes in the painting were created when he “shot Mao” during a drug induced rage.
There are his golf clubs and a cigar.
And, of course, the iconic motorcycle, “Easy Rider.”
Over the next few weeks we will see many obituaries and remembrances written by others. Weingarten’s photograph gives us Hopper’s last word on how he defined himself.
Saturday May 22, 2010
11 am – 12 noon
Lumière
The Galleries of Peachtree Hills
425 Peachtree Hills Ave.
Atlanta, GA 30305
Building Five
Tom Murphy was in the gallery and discussed his exhibition that opened May 22nd at the Booth Western Art Museum, in Cartersville GA.
Murphy’s photography illustrates his passionate love for our wild clean earth. Tom’s understanding of wildlife is apparent from the beginning. He photographs wildlife as they go about their daily lives, patiently waiting for each animal to share its life with him in the wild.
Tom’s images reveal wildlife interacting with each other and with their environment: hunting, eating, drinking, running, plowing through deep snow, giving birth, nursing, playing, resting and sleeping, all in the beauty of the wildest places on earth. His landscapes reflect the natural beauty he finds and loves and works diligently to preserve.
Tom Murphy was raised on a 7500 acre cattle ranch in western South Dakota. This experience taught him more than he wanted to know about cattle and convinced him that he didn’t want to chase cows for the rest of his life, but it also provided him with invaluable lessons in animal behavior and a deep love for clean, wide open land.
Thank you to those who joined us in the gallery, it was fascinating to hear Tom discuss his prime motivation and desire to venture into the wilderness. Through his skill and excellence as a photographer we are able to join him on his exploration.
In March American Photo announced, Robert Glenn Ketchum was chosen as the fifth photographer to receive Master Series distinction, below is an excerpt from the issue and a link to read the entire article.
His activism has made him one of the most influential photographers of our time. By Russell Hart
His is not a household name, even in genteel households familiar with photography’s luminaries. He wouldn’t be counted in the firmament of Avedon, Leibovitz, Cartier-Bresson or Helmut Newton, the subjects of American Photo’s prior Master Series issues. Robert Glenn Ketchum, a champion of the modern environmental movement for more than 30 years, may well be the most influential photographer you’ve never heard of.
You probably know the photographers who blazed the trail for Ketchum’s unprecedented use of photography for environmental advocacy — William Henry Jackson, Ansel Adams and Eliot Porter. Just as Jackson’s 1871 photographs of Yellowstone were the argument that convinced legislators to preserve it as America’s first national park, Ketchum’s 1980s photographs of Alaska’s threatened Tongass rainforest were instrumental in leading Congress to set aside a million of its oldgrowth acres as America’s largest national forest — all off limits to logging.
Barnwell’s new work, “Hands in Harmony; Traditional Crafts and Music in Appalachia”
Opened Friday, May 14, 2010.
Asheville Art Museum in downtown Asheville.
The exhibition was on view through October 10, 2010 and consisted of 34 black and white images from the book (W.W. Norton, 2009) along with oral history text panels. There were also events planned each month including films and a music concert at Diana Wortham Theatre, check the Asheville Art Museum’s website for details.
Hands in Harmony; Traditional Crafts and Music in Appalachia, was released (October 2009) by W. W. Norton & Company, publisher of his previous two books: The Face of Appalachia (2003) and On Earth’s Furrowed Brow (2007). The book is a continuation of the artist’s 30+ year body of work documenting the people, places, musicians, and craftsmen of Appalachia. The book also includes an audio CD with performances by 22 musicians photographed for the project, and is already receiving critical success.
A separate exhibition from Tim’s earlier work:
“On Earth’s Furrowed Brow” On view at,
North Carolina Arboretum in Asheville through May 31st.
Dr. Britt Salvesen, is currently Department Head and Curator Wallis Annenberg Photography Department, Prints and Drawings Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Formerly she was the Director and Chief Curator of the University of Arizona’s Center for Creative Photography in Tucson Arizona, the Center holds the Wynn Bullock archive. Wynn Bullock’s Color Light Abstractions were photographed from 1960 – 1964 and were exhibited for the first time at Lumière in June 2009. Contact the gallery for more information on this fascinating body of work.
Lumière is pleased to pass along an excerpt of an interesting film on the life and work of Alexander Rodchenko.
Lumière has a very deep selection of photographs by Alexander Rodchenko, as well as many other photographs from this period by additional Soviet photographers. Below are links to view a portion of this work on our web site. Please contact the gallery for access to additional images or information.
Brief synopsis of the the film: Alexander Rodchenko abandoned painting in the early 1920s in favor of photography believing it to be the best means of expressing the new visual and social realities which appeared at the beginning of the 20th century, additional information about Micheal Craig and Copernicus Films can be found on YouTube.
Lumière is proud to participate in this, the 40th year of the Atlanta Symphony Associates Decorators’ Show House and Gardens. Working with Peace Design and Summerour Interiors, we are pleased to provide exceptional photography to enhance their extraordinary interior design. Yvonne McFadden of Summerour interiors has utilized two of Bob Kolbrener’s commanding landscapes in the “Young Gentleman’s Bedroom”.
Bill Peace and Hillary Linthicum of Peace Designs are working with the environmental portraiture of Arnold Newman and classic images from Alexander Rodchenko in the “Library”.
We encourage you to visit the Decorators’ Show House & Gardens before it closes on May 9, 2010. This year’s house showcases 28 of the finest interior and landscape designers in the Southeast at “Giverny” in a magnificent estate home with over four acres of spectacular gardens. It is one of the longest running show houses in the country. All proceeds benefit the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s Learning Community.
Weber will be the first featured photographer in Lumière’s upcoming exhibition: Picturing The West. (Scheduled to open Saturday April 24, 2010) The program will include his exceptional rock art, landscapes and aerial photography. His aerial photography is the cover story in the March/April issue of photo technique magazine.
Below is an excerpt of the article.
“When I photograph from the air, I feel I must have a sense of flight in the photograph. The birds eye view. The quickness required. The ever present wind. The gentle vibration of the plane. The presence of a pilot I like and trust. The wonderful sense of isolation. Everything it takes to make an aerial photograph.”
Al Weber’s photography has been exhibited in the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts in Kyoto, Japan, and in many regional museums. He has taught photography since 1963, as instructor for Ansel Adams in Yosemite, at his own Victor School, CO, and in workshops including those with David Vestal at the Photographers’ Formulary in Montana. He was Educational Chairman at Friends of Photography in Carmel, CA and spent many years in a varied career of commercial photography for national publications and major manufacturers. This article is a prelude to a book of Weber’s aerial photography scheduled to be published later this year.
We are pleased to add a virtual tour of the gallery to our web site. Below are four different views of the gallery’s interior; the vestibule, the front Collector’s Gallery and two views of the back Exhibition Gallery. The exhibition in the tour is the Lost Vanguard, Russian Modernist Architecture (1922-1932), photography by Richard Pare. The work debuted at MoMA, NY in 2008. View The Exhibition
Lumière is located in The Galleries of Peachtree Hills, on the second floor of Building 5. For detailed directions to the gallery select here: Directions
Note on Navigation: Once you select a view, after a pause the tour will self navigate. Use your browser’s back button to return to this page.
The Road Less Traveled currently on view at Lumière has been extended to March 27.
Digital portraiture, a departure from the traditional.
Exhibition Opens: January 23rd @ High Museum of Art
Robert Weingarten’s photography series The Portrait Unbound represents a bold departure from traditional portraiture. Using layers of imagery that allude to specific interests, achievements or moments within the subject’s life, Weingarten digitally creates large-scale composite images that describe his subjects through biographical rather than physical information. The exhibition at the High Museum, features twenty-one images that represent notable individuals from the worlds of art, science, politics and sports. Weingarten’s subjects include such icons as Hank Aaron, Buzz Aldrin, Chuck Close, Jane Goodall, Dennis Hopper and Colin Powell.
A short film by Neal Broffman that details Weingarten’s artistic background accompanies the exhibition and is available for viewing below (running time 9:16).
The Road Less Traveled currently on view at Lumière has been extended to March 27.
Below is an interview by John Lemley from WABE. On January 20th he spoke with Robert Weingarten about his new exhibition of portraiture at the High Museum, which opened to the public on Saturday January 23rd.
Saturday February 20, 2010
1 pm – 2 pm
Lumière
425 Peachtree Hills Ave.
Building 5, 2nd Floor
Bob Weingarten joined us via video conference from his studio in Los Angeles. He provided insight into his career and discussed his retrospective exhibition currently on view at the gallery. Bob also conducted a video tour of his studio and engaged in a lively question and answer session with the audience covering many aspects of his artistic journey through his diverse body of work.
Holding Out and Hanging On, Surviving Hurricane Katrina
Photographs and Narratives by Thomas Neff
Regis University
Department of Fine and Performing Arts
3333 Regis Boulevard, C-4
Denver, Colorado 80221
303-964-3634
Thomas Neff, Professor of Art at Louisiana State University, exhibited his project on the survivors of Hurricane Katrina, at Regis University in Denver Colorado. The work is a moving study of the people affected by this natural disaster. The exhibition opened January 19, 2010 and ran through February 19, 2010. Tom was in Denver for a reception on Tuesday February 2nd from 4:30 – 7 pm. He also presented a gallery talk, Thursday February 4th. The University of Missouri Press published the book Holding Out and Hanging On, Surviving Hurricane Katrina in December 2007. The work was also featured in the Lumière exhibition, Southern Exposures in 2008.
View Jeffery Brown’s interview of Linda Gordon about her recently published book Dorothea Lange, A Life Beyond Limits. Linda Gordon is the Florence Kelley Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of numerous books of history and has been the recipient of the Bancroft Prize. This segment originally aired on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on November 23, 2009
December 5, 2009
11 AM at Lumière
Gallery Opens at 10 AM
Spend a little time with Ron, as he explains his photographic process, from shooting to darkroom work. Working with 2 1/4 to 8×10 cameras, we see Rondal in his environment; shooting, developing, and finding photographic inspiration in the most ordinary objects. We will be joined by the filmmaker Meg Partridge, via phone from Seattle. Meg will introduce the film, and be available for Q&A following the screening.
September 17, 2009 – 7:00 PM
High Museum of Art, Hill Auditorium
Film Screening and Panel Discussion, featuring John Dixon (Dorothea Lange’s son), Filmmaker Tom Ropelewski, and Jennifer McFarland. The program features a “preview” from “Child of Giants,” a new documentary by Tom Ropelewski. The film centers on the life and family relationships of Dorothea Lange and her husband, noted painter, Maynard Dixon, as seen through the eyes of their son, Daniel Dixon. The preview includes commentary by Daniel and John Dixon. Segments also include observations with photographers Rondal Partridge and Christina Gardner, who worked intimately in the field with Lange. Lumière was pleased to host the event with the High Museum’s Curator of Photography, Julian Cox. The event was also a collaborative effort with Atlanta Celebrates Photography.
The lecture discussed the work of modernist architects in the Soviet Union during the years following the 1917 revolution and subsequent civil war. In little more than a decade some of the most radical buildings of the twentieth century were completed by a small group of architects who developed a new architectural language in support of new social goals of communal life.
Below is an excerpt of a review from the Creative Loafing.
To read the entire review please access the the Creative Loafing web site.
DATE: April 16, 2009
PUBLICATION: Creative Loafing
BYLINE: Jeremy Abernathy
TITLE: Photographer Contemplates a Lost Vanguard at Lumière
EXHIBITION : “Richard Pare – The Lost Vanguard”
Richard Pare became enamored with modernism at an early age. The son of an artist and teacher, Pare studied graphic design and photography in the U.K. before earning his MFA at the Art Institute of Chicago. During his 15 years at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Read more →
Imogen reveals how she carved out her professional career that spanned 75 years. Photographs are presented by Imogen herself, through informal interviews. Meg Partridge, a documentary filmmaker, whose credits include: Portrait of Imogen, and Dorothea Lange, A Visual Life. Meg will be available for questions and discussion after the film.
A film about a photographer and educator whose art and life forged a link between European modernism and the burgeoning artistic culture of the San Francisco in the mid 20th Century. Jane Levy Reed, a documentary filmmaker, whose credits include: Pirkle Jones – Seven Decades Photographed. Jane will be available for questions and discussion after the film.
Pirkle’s collaborations with Ansel Adams & Dorothea Lange helped define the San Francisco Bay’s dual photo traditions of elegant landscape and biting social commentary. Jane Levy Reed, a documentary filmmaker, whose credits include: My Eyes Were Fresh: The Life and Photographs of John Gutmann. Jane will be available for questions and discussion after the film.
Bringing to life five decades of American history, Dorothea Lange shares her photographs and her insight, revealing her passion and commitment to photograph the changing face of 20th century America. Meg Partridge, a documentary filmmaker, whose credits include: Portrait of Imogen, and Dorothea Lange, A Visual Life. Meg will be available for questions and discussion after the film.
November 5, 2008
High Museum of Art, Hill Auditorium
Presentations and Panel Discussions featuring: Naomi Rosenblum and Meg Partridge
Dr. Naomi Rosenblum: noted historian, curator, lecturer and author whose books include, “A History of Women Photographers”. The latest revision of the book includes segments on photographers from Asia and the Middle East. Her book, “A World History of Photography” has been translated into French, Japanese, Polish and Chinese. Critics have praised Dr. Rosenbaum’s work as insightful, authoritative, and indispensable to the field of photography. She has a doctorate degree in art history.
Meg Partridge pursued acting and photography in wide-ranging locales from Paris to Wisconsin, she completed a graduate degree in film making at San Francisco State University. She has worked in documentary film, as a cinematographer and as a producer. In addition teaching cinematography and film lighting at San Francisco State University, she directed her own documentary films. Her first film: Portrait of Imogen, (won a host of awards) and was nominated for an Academy Award. Her next film: Dorothea Lange, A Visual Life, was shown at festivals in America, Germany, New Zealand, France and Canada. Her film, Outta My Light, was about her father, noted photographer, Rondal Partridge.
October 1, 2008
High Museum of Art, Hill Auditorium
Gregory Heisler, former Newman assistant will share his insight to the photography of Arnold Newman. Heisler, is a New York-based photographer who is renowned for his technical mastery and thoughtful responsiveness. It has been said that he combines “the eye of an artist, the mind of a scientist, and the heart of a journalist.” He is perhaps best known for his more than seventy TIME magazine cover portraits. As a sought-after speaker and educator, Gregory has taught at the International Center of Photography, the New School for Social Research, The School of Visual Arts (Master of Fine Arts Program), Parsons School of Design, The Smithsonian Institution (Masters of Still Photography Series), and the National Geographic Society, as well as scores of workshops and seminars throughout the country and overseas.
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