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| INSTALLATION IMAGES Installation shots are up on our Facebook page from After Atget at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Thank you to Bowoin for sharing. (Digital imaging by Peter Seigel) REVIEWS Lovely review of After Atget in the Boston Globe on December 27, 2011. After Atget review in the Maine Sunday Telegram on November 20, 2011! Have a look! EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT! After Atget: Todd Webb Photographs New York and Paris exhibition will run from October 28, 2011 - January 29, 2012 in the Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery and Halford Gallery at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. We hope you all will be able to get to Brunswick to see what we think is going to be a most fabulous installation, and if you can't make it to Maine, you can order the catalogue! EXHIBITION: Mark your calendars! After Atget: Todd Webb Photographs New York and Paris opens at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art on October 28th. After Atget: Todd Webb Photographs New York and Paris Oct 28, 2011 – Jan 29, 2012 Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery Halford Gallery *Click on the link above for a detailed description of the show! TWEETING! Todd Webb Photographs is now on twitter as @twebbphoto. Follow us here! EXHIBITION: Out of the Dark Room: The David Kronn Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art 20 July 2011 - 9 October 2011 Two of Todd's photographs are currently on view at this exhibition in Dublin. View McDonald’s, Portland, 1976 is an image from Todd's first year living in Maine. While Rural California Town, 1955 was shot during the first year of his Guggenheim grant and on his walk across the country. EXHIBITION: Wide-Eyed Panoramic Photographs Minneapolis Institute of Arts Friday, September 16, 2011—Sunday, January 29, 2012 Harrison Photography Gallery (365) If you are going to be Minneapolis from September 2011 to January 2012, make sure you visit the Minneapolis Art Institute to see their forthcoming exhibition Wide-Eyed Panoramic Photographs. Todd's panel of 6th Avenue in New York City from 1948 will be on view! We are moving! Our new space is located at 225 Commercial Street in the heart of Portland's Old Port. Our phone number will remain the same, but we do have a new email address: info@toddwebbphotographs.com Todd Webb is finally searchable on Wikipedia! It should pop up now when you google Todd. EXHIBITION O'Keeffiana Art and Art Materials September 24, 2010 - May 08, 2011 Exhibition organized by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Georgia O’Keeffe led an aesthetic life of precise and specific preferences that informed her daily life as well as her artistic practice. She was discriminating about the views that became the subject of her artwork, as well as the materials and tools she used to create her extraordinary body of work. “O’Keeffiana: Art and Art Materials” offers a view of her artistic practice in a rich selection of artworks in various media – watercolor, charcoal, graphite, pastels, oil, and sculpture – along with a sampling of the pastels, watercolors, oil paints and brushes, she used. The exhibition will also include photographs of O’Keeffe at work and in the landscape that inspired her, and a selection of the stones and bones she collected and represented in paint and sculpture. Todd Webb's important image of O'Keeffe's studio at Ghost Ranch is included in this installation. Seeing Portland – 1972 to 1984 April 3 - May 1, 2010 Zero Station, Portland, Maine Photographs of a pre-technological, pre-gentrified place Portland in the 1970s was a city on the brink of being reborn. Nestled between the misguided urban renewal of the 1960s and the boom years of the later 1980s it was a time of gestation and redefinition. A surprising number of young and talented photographers came of age using the city as subject matter for their creative explorations; documenting and making art. Gathered together for the first time this group of photographs expresses a pre-technological, pre-gentrified Portland in both aesthetic and architectural terms. More than mere nostalgic references, they deepen our awareness of time and place. Initiated by photographer Andy Graham's rediscovery of a set of transparencies from 1975 taken in the Kennedy Park housing development, the show brings together the work of Tom Brennan, C.C. Church, Andy Graham, Rose Marasco, Joe Muir, Mark Rockwood, Jeff Stevenson, Jay York and Todd Webb. Co-curated by Andy Graham, Anne Riesenberg and Keith Fitzgerald of Zero Station the show opens on April 10 and runs through May 1 at Zero Station. Installation image 1 from "Seeing Portland" Installation image 2 from "Seeing Portland" Installation image 3 from "Seeing Portland" Installation image 4 from "Seeing Portland" Picturing New York: Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art Irish Museum of Modern Art 25 November 2009 - 14 February 2010 La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain 26 March to 14 June 2009 Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy 11 July to 11 October 2009 Picturing New York comprises 145 masterworks from the photographic collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, covering the period from the 1880s to the present day. It celebrates the tradition of photographing New York, a tradition that frames and influences the perception of this vibrant urban centre. Including photographs by such influential photographers as Berenice Abbot, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, Lisette Model, Alfred Stieglitz and Cindy Sherman, it explores both New York and its inhabitants, highlighting associations – from the vast, overwhelming architecture and bright lights, to the diversity of people that lie at the soul of the city. The photographs reveal New York as a city of contrasts and extremes through images of towering blocks and tenements, party-goers and street-dwellers, hurried groups and solitary individuals. Picturing New York demonstrates the symbiosis between the city’s progression from past to present and the evolution of photography as a medium and as an art form. Additionally, these photographs of New York contribute significantly to the notion that the photograph, as a work of art, is capable of constructing a sense of place and a sense of self. Picturing New York: Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art is organised by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and is travelling under the auspices of the International Council of MoMA. It is curated by Sarah Meister, Associate Curator, Department of Drawings at MoMA. The exhibition will also be presented at La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain (26 March to 14 June 2009) and the Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy, (11 July to 11 October 2009). Georgia O'Keeffe and the Faraway: Nature and Image February 12, 2010 - September 6, 2010 The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame O’Keeffe’s connection to the American West and her reputation at the forefront of American Modernism are essential to the premise of this exhibition and pertinent to her induction into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame. She identified herself with the ideals of the West- rugged individuality, fierce courage and a quest for the untamed. Nowhere is this more evident than through her arduous camping trips to paint the landscape of northern New Mexico, a place she romantically referred to as “the far away.” The 3,000 square foot exhibit, housed in the lower gallery of the Museum, will include several of O'Keeffe's paintings on loan from museums and private collectors from around the country. Also included will be her camping gear, which has never before been displayed to the public; numerous sketches made by the artist while camping and hiking in northern New Mexico; a few key pieces of her clothing and multiple photographs taken of her while camping as well as others that document her affinity with the West. Our guest curator, Dr. Valerie Ann Leeds, is a nationally known scholar of American Modernism. She has been studying O'Keeffe's correspondence this year at the Beinecke Library at Yale, as well as the libraries of the Amon Carter and Georgia O'Keeffe Museums. The exhibit design is by Randy Webster, Vice President of Emerald Palms Design Group, who is also the lead designer of the new galleries in the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History and the Ride: A Global Adventure exhibit displayed at the National Cowgirl Museum in summer 2006. Installation image one Installation image two Installation image three "Honest Vision: A Portrait of Todd Webb" This award winning documentary chronicles the life and career of Todd Webb (1905-2000), one of America's greatest 20th Century photographers. The photographer’s life is told through the wit and stories of Webb himself. Featured are Webb’s elegant black and white photographs of Paris and New York in the 1940s and 1950s, and his photographs of the American West taken from 1955-65 when he retraced the Gold Rush Trails by foot, by bicycle, and by motor scooter. Honest Vision is also the love story of Todd and Lucille Webb. An inseparable team, the interviews with Lucille Webb give an insight to the influence a partner has on the creative life of an artist. Produced, Directed, and Edited by Huey; cinematography, Richard Searls; music composed by Darmon Meader; 55 minutes, released in 1996. Winner of the Silver Plaque, Chicago International Film Festival; Bronze Apple, National Educational Media Network Film and Video Competition. Distributor: Films by Huey, 103 Montrose Ave., Portland, ME 04103. p: 207.773.1130 w: www.filmsbyhuey.com |
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