FACING SOUTH : If you are in Alabama this summer : GO + SEE

GO + SEE 


as Art Director for the online photography magazine South X Southeast, I had the joy of working with a number of photographers. One of my sources for information and images was Jerry Siegel. Over time Jerry has built solid relationships with a host of leading artists and just folks from the region.

His images have also been in my curatorial projects including one of an courtly William  Eggelston standing in a garden which is here.I  can imagine Eggelston has just gotten up from playing the piano and is now listening to the music of a warm southern evening .

If you are near Auburn Alabama this summer please go and see this exhibition if not please order the beautiful catalog it is wonderful to see people you only hear about.

Facing South: Portraits of Southern Artists by Jerry Siegel  June 2–August 18, 2012
Bill L. Harbert Gallery and Gallery C

Opening reception and book signing
    Jerry Siegel and Dennis Harper will present an informal discussion - June 1, 2012  6:00pm

Jerry Siegel's photographic portraits of southern visual artists compose a highly personal survey of some of  the most interesting inhabitants of our region. An Alabama native, Siegel has spent the last 17 years traveling the area to capture the likenesses of artists in their familiar settings. 

Facing South assembles 100 black-and-white and color portraits of Siegel's subjects, including Benny Andrews, Radcliffe Bailey, William Christenberry, Lamar Dodd, Ida Kohlmeyer, Charlie Lucas, Charles Shannon, and Kathryn Windham. 

Expressive, intimate, and evocative, Siegel's body of work offers sensitive insights into the region's creative soul.

WILLIAM EGGELSTON , TENNESSEE 2007

GEORGR DUREAU , LOUISIANA  1996

MOSE TOLLIVER (MOSE T) ALABAMA 1996

JANE ROBBINS KERR, GEORGIA  2006

THORNTON DAIL , ALABAMA 2007

WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY, ALABAMA  2005

DON ALEXANDER, GEORGIA  1995

MAUDE SCHUYLER CLAY,MISSISSIPPI  2010

LUCY T. PETTWAY , ALABAMA 2003

Summer Reading Summer Imagination Summer fun

A Collage

Jo Lynn Still                                                                       Donna Rosser

As many of you know, I am not mrfancyonthecomputerguy. I will probably keep it that way longer than I should. Sometimes I see pictures that to me belong together. Just a few minutes ago I saw Jo  Lynn Still photo on Facebook  it remind me of so many summer boyhood stories. I remembered Donna Rosser photo from a Serenbe shot that was on Facebook also, it reminds me of so many stories young girl starting on adventure.


It is hot today but maybe it is a good time to think about summer reading and the adventures we should not leave behind

I Was Searching For Quiet : Rafaelo Kazakov

During the past few days my thoughts have been about  portraying quiet, defining it with images. The usual way to show it is by showing emptiness . I look at a number photographs of empty rooms, a lot of them had shadows. Shadows can be very quiet even when they are chaotic . I drift . These Images are by Rafaelo Kazakov, from a series called Rupture there are 30, 40 x 60 inches digital pigment prints in the group.

Rafaelo went back to his boyhood home to make these pictures, I think Rupture speaks volumes about memory and returning .There is also an  overwhelming sense of dread and grief that daylight stifles.

©2012 Rafaelo Kazakov

©2012 Rafaelo Kazakov

©2012 Rafaelo Kazakov

©2012 Rafaelo Kazakov

©2012 Rafaelo Kazakov

©2012 Rafaelo Kazakov

©2012 Rafaelo Kazakov

©2012 Rafaelo Kazako

CHURCHES : I come to the garden alone

Jerry Siegel Ivy Creek Church

Susan Lipper  Untitled

Diana Kirkland Wayfare Primitive Baptist

Jerry Siegel  Old Mallard Church

Eliot Dudik  418 Ivenia Brown Road

Anderson Scott  Thank God

Jerry Siegel  Revival Tent

Today feels like church , memories of little white buildings standing and waiting to come alive. Then bursting with the energy of words of prayer and song .One of the songs that comes to me in those memories is In The Garden . 

I come to the garden alone
while the dew is still on the roses
And the voice I hear falling on my ear
The song of God discloses
words and music by C.A.Miles

In New York : Go See 3

Go + See


Atsuya Tominaga


Sphere 
April 19 - June 9 2012
Ippodo Gallery
526 W 26th B1


Visited a gallery for the first time I was drawn into the space because of the very quiet white stone sculptures by the Japanese  artist Atsuya Tominaga.


The gallery director Shoko Aono and her staff made the visit wonderful not only speaking about the Spheres exhibition including showing us the tools used to make them.


Then they opened drawers filled with beautiful, dramatic,timeless,and peaceful objects made of bronze, fiber, lacquer clay and stone .Objects  that spoke not only to the eye but the touch,the heart and the mind.

Of course I asked  about photography and was presented with the images of 
Takashi Tomo-Oka also born in Japan. I think Takashi maintains a conversation started by Karl Blossfeldt in the 1930's.

If you are in New York or Tokyo please visit Ippodo Gallery you will walk away feeling

Atsuya Tominaga   11

Magdalena Sole : Framing

Night Train to Beijing China 2011

Trailer Window with Girl  Crowder, MS 2010

Dancing Monk  Ragoon, Burma 200

Unemployed in Kamagasaki , Osaka 2009

New York Bodega 2009

Door   Ragoon , Burma 2008

A Nursing Home, Tohoku,  Japan after the disaster  2011

A Student at Oakhurst Middle School, Clarksdale 2010

Some photographers lead a very nomadic life,  a thought that came to mind recently when looking at old photography  magazines and thinking that this was the way most people saw the world. Travel for the average American was time consuming and expensive so we sat in our living rooms and looked at what photographers sent back.


Now that world traveling is easier for most we still get pleasure from seeing how others frame our vision of the world.


When I first met Magdalena Sole last fall in Zebulon (love that word) it was in Pike County Georgia at a portfolio review for Slow Exposures. It was shortly before the release of her latest book. 


New Delta Rising. 


A couple of weeks ago, was surfing and visited her website. I came away with 16 images these are the 8, I would like to share now.  

In New York : Go and See

Go+See



Tim Hetherington
April 12– May 19, 2012
Yossi Milo Gallery
245 Tenth Avenue



one of the most humanistic and compelling photography exhibitions in New York this month is at Yossi Milo Gallery .

An exhibition of photographs and video by Tim Hetherington (1970-2011). The exhibition of photographs taken in Liberia and Afghanistan, as well as two films by the Oscar-nominated filmmaker. 

This is the first major exhibition of Tim Hetherington’s work in the United States.

Taken mostly from the center of political and social conflicts in West Africa and the Middle East, Tim Hetherington’s work focused on the experience of war from the perspective of the individual. Through his photographs, writing and films, Tim Hetherington gave us new ways to look at and think about human suffering. Tim was tragically killed on April 20, 2011, while photographing and filming in Libya.

Tim Hetherington

Untitled, Liberia, 2004

Digital C-print

© Tim Hetherington, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York

Tim Hetherington

Untitled, Liberia, 2003

Digital C-print

© Tim Hetherington, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York

Tim Hetherington

Untitled, Liberia, 2004

Digital C-print

© Tim Hetherington, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York

Tim Hetherington

Untitled, Liberia, 2003

Digital C-print

© Tim Hetherington, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York

Tim Hetherington

Untitled, Liberia, 2003

Digital C-print

© Tim Hetherington, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York

Tim Hetherington

Untitled, Liberia, 2003-2004
Digital C-print

© Tim Hetherington, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York