Conversations With Photographers

Two separate box collections of five small volumes contain conversations with highly regarded photographers of our time. Not yet available, they can be pre-ordered here at Photo-eye.

Artists include: Bernd & Hilla Becher, Andres Serrano, Perejaume, Stan Douglas, Zhang Huan, and Allan Sekula in one box. Paul Graham, Candida Höfer, Bleda y Rosa, Jürgen Klauke, Helena Almeida, and Vic Muniz in the other.

"The conversations published here offer insights into the thoughts and reflections of these master photographers in the context of their work and practice, aesthetics, biographical aspects and personal opinions."

Another two to add to the must own/must read books for all photographers.

Home Sweet Home II

© Tribble & Mancenido

Michael Kwiecinski and Raymond Weil

Golden Tove, from the series Withinnan
© Michael Kwiecinski

Our dear friend and fellow photographer is part of a photography competition with Raymond Weil Watches of Geneva, Switzerland. The winning photographer will receive an exhibition in the Raymond Weil Booth at the 2008 Basel World International Watch and Jewelry Show, a website to host his or her work, and a prize of fifteen thousand dollars.

You can vote for him and support an amazing young, up and coming photographer here.

He needs our support!!

The Westerns

We're back hoping everyone enjoyed the holidays and New Year! Now back to the grind...

To start off 2008, one of the most influential contemporary portrait photographers kicks off the gallery scene with her new anticipated series: The Westerns.


Gail and Dale, Pacifica
© Katy Grannan

"Grannan's large format color portraits depict the subjects the artist describes as "new pioneers," northern Californians who struggle to define themselves under the scrutiny of relentless sunlight. California serves as both a literal and metaphorical backdrop for Grannan's new photographs. It is a mythical destination and a real end-point where sunshine illuminates both the abject and the joyful.
In the Westerns, Grannan explores the uneasy relationships between fixed photographic portraiture and her subjects' mercurial identities. The photographs are replete with ambiguity and contradiction: they are evidence of an invented unknowable self, confronting inescapable photographic description."

Here is a list of her upcoming events:
The Westerns
3 Jan - 9 Feb
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Another Woman Who Died In Her Sleep
9 Jan - 16 Feb
Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, NYC, NY

Lady Into Fox
10 Jan - 23 Feb
Salon 94 Freemans, NYC, NY

See you there!