Jonathan Alpeyrie
World War II Veterans

Anastasia Photo

166 Orchard St.
New York, NY 10002
212-677-9725

April 11–May 12, 2012

Anastasia Photo is pleased to present World War II Veterans, featuring photographs by Jonathan Alpeyrie.  The exhibition features 210 rich portraits of veterans from 61 nations.

Anastasia-Photo specializes in documentary photography and photojournalism. The gallery also serves as a center for discussion and portfolio review. To connect these photographic images and the events they depict, Anastasia Photo endows each exhibition with a related, on-site, philanthropic organization. This exhibition supports Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America <http://www.iava.org/>.

Gallery Hours:
Wednesday–Sunday, 11:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.

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LOST & FOUND: 3.11 Photographs from Tohoku

Monday, April 2–Friday, April 27, 2012
Aperture Foundation
547 W. 27th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10001

Aperture Foundation presents LOST & FOUND: 3.11 Photographs from Tohoku, a profoundly moving exhibition of photographs recovered from the devastation following the two epic natural disasters and the subsequent nuclear catastrophe that took place in the Tohoku region of Japan a year ago, last March.

This exhibition offers us an opportunity to think about the relationship people have with their photographs, and also to consider the significance of photographs themselves. LOST & FOUND: 3.11 Photographs from Tohuku reflects the transitive nature of existence, the power of nature over humankind, and the reconstruction of a hopeful future.

The Lost & Found Project began as a volunteer activity called “Salvage Memory,”  which aimed to recover the photographs that were damaged by the tsunami and return them to their owners, by sweeping the dirt off, rinsing them with water, and taking pictures of the photographs to create digital data. More than 500 people volunteered for this project, and 2,176 photo albums and 29,808 photographs were returned to their owners.

Unfortunately, more than 30,000 photos were too badly damaged and could not be returned. These are the photographs that comprise the exhibition, in order to give people an opportunity to see them, in the belief that they carry powerful messages. More information about Lost & Found is available here.

LOST & FOUND: 3.11 Photographs from Tohoku was previously shown at Hiroshi Watanabe’s Studio-Gallery in Los Angeles, and parts of it will travel to London, Paris, and Milan, with different installations in each location, making each exhibition a unique and personal experience.

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The In/Visibility of America’s 21st Century Wars

The 2012 Annual Cultural Studies Conference at Indiana University

Bloomington, Indiana, April 12-13, 2012

Thursday: Keynote by James Der Derian, “‘Up Close and Dirty’: Uncloaking the New War Machine,” Theatre Arts building, BLTH A201, 7:00 pm

Friday: Film Screening of Human Terrain, BLTH A201, 7:00 pm

Saturday: panel sessions by Robert Hariman, John Lucaites, Michael Shaw, Claudia Breger, Lara Kriegel, Valerie Wiesdamp, Jody Madeira, Jon Simons, and Jeremy Gordon; the University Club in the Indiana Memorial Union, 10:00 am – 5:15 pm.  The conference is free and open to the public.

A campus map is here.

Photograph by Nina Berman.

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Now! Visual Culture

A conference at New York University

May 31-June 2, 2012

Featuring:

One Dozen Lightning Talks on the future of the field
Workshops on multi-media software and film
Open discussions on debt, academic publishing, and interdisciplinarity
Graduate student forum and a general assembly
Practice, performance, and diasporic art

Participants include: Safet Ahmeti, Giuliana Bruno, Wafaa Bilal, Jill Casid, Patsy Chang, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Beth Coleman, Jennifer Gonzalez, Raiford Guins, Gary Hall, Max Liljefors, Mark Little, Tara McPherson, Nicholas Mirzoeff, W.J.T. Mitchell, Lisa Nakamura, Paul Pfeiffer, Amanda du Preez, Martha Rosler, Joan Saab, Marquard Smith, Sina Najafi, Øyvind Vågnes, McKenzie Wark, Jason Wing, Joanna Zylinska, and many more.

There can only be a relatively limited number of delegates both for space reasons (only certain spaces can be used cost-free at NYU) and to create a strongly interactive conference experience. These sessions will take place at 20 Cooper Square, New York, 10003 in the Humanities Initiative space, a beautifully designed space overlooking the architectural drama of the Bowery.

On the website you will find a registration form: please consider registering!

Full event details are at http://www.visualculturenow.org.

Photo by Michael Pierce.

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The London Festival of Photography has announced a new prize for photography on this year’s festival theme of “Insideout: Reflections of the Public and the Private.”

This theme intends to explore the changing boundaries between the public and the private, as both physical and metaphorical concepts, and the social consequences of these shifts. Considering the role of photography as a tool for documentation, expression and collaboration, the festival is looking for work responding to the theme in its broadest interpretation.  Possible topics include but are not limited to such issues as:

• photography as a means to reflect not only the external world but also the inner self of the image maker
• the social media revolution and how it has overturned our ideas of personal privacy
• the changing boundaries of public and private land, what this means for personal freedom and the ways in which people inhabit these opposing spaces
• the effects and ethics of putting a very private photographic image on public display
• censorship of images
• the democratisation of visual journalism and how the public have become mass purveyors of information

Categories, rules, and additional information is available here.  The deadline for entry is March 29, 2012.

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Matthew Frye Jacobson is a professor at Yale, which would be excuse enough to keep on writing books for other scholars.  Instead of staying in that comfort zone, he has created a website dedicated to enriching public discussion by gathering images and interviews that reflect history in the making.

As he says, “Beginning as a modest effort in early 2009 to capture the historic moment of our first black president’s inauguration in photographs and interviews, the “Our Better History” project and the Historian’s Eye website have evolved into an expansive collection of some 1000+ photographs and an audio archive addressing Obama’s first term in office, the ’08 economic collapse and its fallout, two wars, the raucous politics of healthcare reform, the emergence of a new right-wing formation in opposition to Obama, the politics of immigration, Wall Street reform, street protests of every stripe, the BP oil spill, and the seeming escalation of anti-Muslim sentiment nationwide.  Interviewees narrate and reflect upon their own personal histories as well, a dimension of the archive that now spans many decades and touches five continents.”

You can look, listen, and otherwise get inside the project here.  And don’t forget to check out the “Participate” link.

Photograph from Occupy Baltimore, October 22, 2011.

 

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Ruben Salvadori is a young Italian photographer with a BA in Anthropology from Hebrew University in Jerusalem.  While covering the ritualized clashes between Palestinian youth and Israeli security forces, he became interested in the gap between the practice of photojournalism and the images that were shown to the public.

His video, Photojournalism Behind the Scenes, turns an ethnographic eye on the photographers’ relationship with their subjects, and on how that part of the photographic encounter is edited out of the picture.

Salvadori does a fine job of exposing this tacit dimension of conflict photography.  Unlike some critics, the point is not simply to trash visual media on behalf of some supposedly innocent alternative.  In fact, none of us are innocent, and one might well ask how these and other representational conventions contribute to the stalemated catastrophe in Palestine.  Would that we could stand back a bit further and see, not only the photographers, but how many others are all too habituated to crafting illusions of dramatic conflict, rather than achieving an equitable resolution to a political tragedy.

For additional commentary, see the discussion at Planext.

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Occupy.

 

Fovea Exhibitions presents a slideshow on continuous loop from February 11-March 4, 2012.

143 Main Street, Beacon, New York

Opening reception: Saturday, February 11 from 5pm to 9 pm.

 Fovea is a volunteer-run 501(c)3 educational charity dedicated to promoting public understanding of world events and social issues through the medium of photojournalism.  You can donate and become a member here.  Their home page is www.FoveaExhibitions.org.

Photograph by Nina Berman/Noor.

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