Call for Entries

Juror: David E. Little, Curator and Head of Photography and New Media at Minneapolis Institute Arts (MIA)
Entry Fee: $30 up to 5 images; $10 each additional (no limit on number that may be submitted)
Prizes: $300 for 1st; $200 for 2nd; $100 for 3rd
Notice of Acceptance: November 10, 2009
Exhibition Dates: January 2, 2010 - January 31, 2010 at the Mpls Photo Center
Reception: January 8, 2010, 6:00 - 9:00 pm at the Mpls Photo Center

http://www.MplsPhotoCenter.com/exhibits/callforentries

Mpls Photo Center, 2400 North Second St, Minneapolis, MN 55411, 612-643-3511, www.MplsPhotoCenter.com

Contact: Clare O'Neill, Clare@mplsphotocenter.com

Call for Entries

http://www.reduxstudios.org/exhibitions/apply.html

Redux is the premier contemporary art venue in South Carolina offering opportunities for emerging and established artists to exhibit in historic downtown Charleston, SC. Exhibitions are not limited to any media, and all applicants will be considered for solo, group, and two person shows.

This years exhibitions and residencies:

The official deadline for all entries is postmarked November 16th2009
More info on residency program »
Artists will be notified of results by mail on or before December 15th2009
Please see below for answers to frequently asked questions

To apply for an exhibition you must submit the following:

• Application [PDF] click to download »
• $35 Application Fee (pay online below or mail a check with your application)
• portfolio of recent works (5 - 10) that can be in slide, cd, dvd, or video format. (both mac and pc formatted discs accepted - please send still images at a minimum of 1000 pixels wide at 72 dpi and in JPEG format)
• Inventory list including titles, dates completed, sizes, and mediums.
• Artist Statement
• Artistic Resume
• SASE for return of materials

Submit all materials to:

Redux Contemporary Art Center
136 St. Philip Street
Charleston, SC 29403

Call for Entries

Magic Silver 2010 is a juried photography exhibition designed to encourage and reward those involved in photographic media, and to provide a format for exhibition.

Juror: Ken Merfeld

Awards: A total of $1000 will be awarded as determined by the juror.

Eligibility: Any artist 18 years or older working in traditional photography, experimental or non-traditional light sensitive processes, digital media, or video are encouraged to apply.

To enter: Visit www.murraystate.edu/artgallery and look under “prospectus” for complete information.

Deadline 10/30

Call for Entries

http://desotorow.org/opportunities/entry.html

Check here for any call for entries to local gallery

Call for Entries

ABOUT FLAK PHOTO

Flak Photo is a daily photography website that celebrates the art & culture of photography online. Produced by Andy Adams, the site highlights new series work, book projects and gallery exhibitions from an international community of contributors.

SUBMISSIONS

An online gallery and social media magazine, Flak Photo provides unique opportunities for artists and photography organizations to share their work with a community of photographers, galleries, publishers, curators and editors. To submit your work for consideration, email your photograph (sRGB JPG format, minimum 1000px wide) with title and caption details to photo@flakmag.com. Please include the following information with your submission:

• Title
• Place of capture, including city, state / province and country (if applicable)
• Year
• Is the image part of a series that's available online? What's the URL?
• Your website URL

Naturally, photographers retain all copyright on submitted materials. Contributors are formally credited and Flak Photo's style is to link the credit to a contributor's website.

Irving Penn Dies at 92

NEW YORK – Irving Penn, whose photographs revealed a taste for stark simplicity whether he was shooting celebrity portraits, fashion, still life or remote places of the world, died Wednesday at his Manhattan home. He was 92.

The death was announced by his photo assistant, Roger Krueger.

"He never stopped working," said Peter MacGill, a longtime friend whose Pace-MacGill Galleries in Manhattan represented Penn's work. "He would go back to similar subjects and never see them the same way twice."

Penn, who constantly explored the photographic medium and its boundaries, typically preferred to isolate his subjects — from fashion models to Aborigine tribesmen — from their natural settings to photograph them in a studio against a stark background. He believed the studio could most closely capture their true natures.

Between 1964 and 1971, he completed seven such projects, his subjects ranging from New Guinea mud men to San Francisco hippies.

Follow the link for the rest of the article. --- http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091007/ap_on_en_ot/us_obit_irving_penn

MoMA’s "New Photography 2009" Showcases

Artists That Push The Boundaries of Photography

Delaunay. © 2009 Sara VanDerBeek, image courtesy the artist and D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York.

New Photography 2009 opens at the Museum of Modern Art today. This year, the annual exhibition, which began in 1985, features six young artists who “question what it means to make a photograph in the twenty-first century.” New Photography has in the past served simply as a showcase for lesser known artists rather than as a thematic show attached to a strong curatorial statement. While this year’s exhibition is still a showcase for individual artists with diverse image-making processes, Eva Respini, a MoMA associate curator and the show’s organizer, pointed out that there are shared concerns connecting the work. Speaking to PDN during a walk-through of the show, Respini noted that each of the artists expand “the horizons and language” of photography, and create images in either a studio or darkroom—not by going out into the real world. Most of the artists “accumulate things to make something else,” Respini related. Their processes reference traditional photographic techniques and the role of photographs in society. In her introductory wall text, Respini writes that “most of the artists actively work in other disciplines, and their photographs relate to drawing, sculpture, video, and installation.” Though the show is called “New Photography,” it seems sure to inspire some debate as to how far photography can be pushed before it becomes another medium. Walead Beshty creates massive, colorful photograms by repeatedly exposing a sheet of photographic paper in a chemical darkroom. Carter Mull photographs the Los Angeles Times and then utilizes “digital and analog techniques” to manipulate the original image and create subsequent, connected images. Sara VanDerBeek gathers together and arranges current and historical pictures and rephotographs them, exploring “the symbolism of individual images and the physical and cultural connections between them.” Leslie Hewitt, whose process is the most directly akin to traditional photographic practice, assembles objects to create still-lifes that resemble found scenes. Hewitt then orients the images upside down, questioning the representational value of photographs. Daniel Gordon creates pseudo-portraits by assembling cut paper and images into figures, which he then photographs and further manipulates. Sterling Ruby creates his images by digitally manipulating his own photographs as well as found images. Although the show does not attempt to sum up all the various ways artists are pushing the boundaries of photographic practice, it does highlight the various new tools that photography— especially in the transition from analog to digital—has made available to visual artists.

Photographer Ronis dies aged 99

Ronis gave up a musical career to start photography Photographer Willy Ronis, best known for capturing the essence of Paris in black and white scenes of everyday life, has died aged 99. He passed away at a hospital in the French capital, where he had been admitted days earlier. President of the Eyedea photo agency. Stephane Ledoux said: "We have lost the last of the great men." Ronis' award-winning career began in the 1930s and he took his last picture in 2001. French President Nicolas Sarkozy praised Ronis as the "chronicler of postwar social aspirations and the poet of a simple and joyous life." Ronis, along with friend Robert Doisneau and photojournalist Henri Cartier-Bresson, were among France's great photographers who emerged after World War II.

Online Photo Infringement Costs $10 Billion? Really?

The professional photography industry has no reliable numbers about the potential fees lost every year because of online infringement.

But one image licensing company has taken a guess: $10 billion a year. That estimate deserves a skeptical eye.

Vivozoom, a microstock site run by two former Getty Images executives, is trumpeting the $10 billion figure in the headline of a press release today.

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Report: 35,885 Journalism Jobs Lost in Last 12 Months

A new report confirms what everyone working in media could probably guess already: Journalism job losses are accelerating at a faster rate than job losses in the overall U.S. economy.

Since the financial crisis started (September 15, 2008 to September 15, 2009), 35,885 jobs in the journalism industry have been cut in the U.S.

The data comes from UNITY: Journalists of Color, which tracks SEC filings and self-reported data from 1,101 print and broadcast media outlets. UNITY counts jobs lost through layoffs, buyouts and attrition.

We already know many of the jobs lost were photographers, based on reports of photo staffs being slashed at newspapers like the Philadelphia Inquirer, The Baltimore Sun and the Los Angeles Times. According to the UNITY report, the Los Angeles Times leads U.S. newspapers in the total number of jobs cut since January 1, 2008: 1,200!

There is some glimmer of good news, though. After a painful December—in which 7,398 journalism jobs were lost—the bleeding has slowed, as you can see on the chart above.

For more, here's a UNITY press release, or you can read the full report in PDF format. Editor & Publisher has more coverage.