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Hannah Price on photographing men on the streets in Philadelphia – a new podcast

Hannah Price is the youngest artist included in the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s exhibit of local artists, Here and Now. Now 25, Price graduated in 2009 with a BFA in photography from Rochester Institute of Technology.  She’s had remarkable success for such a young artist.  In addition to the current museum show she’s in she won an award in the Philadelphia Photo Art Center’s first emerging artist exhibit, Next, and has exhibited her works in group shows at Gallery 339, the city’s premier commercial photography gallery.  Price’s color photos, shot in film and printed digitally, show street scenes and people ...

Hannah Price on photographing strangers and living without Facebook – next podcast on artblog radio

Hannah Price is the youngest artist included in the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s exhibit exhibit of local artists, Here and Now. She graduated in 2009 with a BFA in photography from Rochester Institute of Technology.  Right out of college she won an award in the Philadelphia Photo Art Center’s first emerging artist exhibit. After that, she’s been in group shows at Gallery 339 — remarkable for someone so young.  Price’s color photos, shot in film and printed digitally, show people, usually alone, in somber moments of quietude, often outside on the streets of Philadelphia.  Many of the works showcase the ...

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News Philadelphia Museum of Art highlights ten local artists Starting September 10, the PMA will host Here and Now: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs by Ten Philadelphia Artists.

In focus

Gallery 339’s 10-artist summer show, In Review, doesn’t quite come together as a statement about contemporary photography—the fluffy press release extols the work’s “lively, complex, and intelligent dialogue about meaningful issues.” Nonetheless, the uniformly polished work is attractive and occasionally insightful.

Weekly Update — Two photo shows and many more to see

This week’s Weekly has my review of photography shows at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Photo Art Center. From Woodmere Art Museum to the Print Center and places in between, Philadelphia celebrates the 170th year of photography this fall with exhibits that showcase the medium’s origins and point to the region’s strength in producing leaders in the field. Here’s a peek at two of the shows.

Photographing Eden lost–Philadelphia Photo Arts Center

Philadelphia has just gained another place to view great photography. The new Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (PPAC) at the Crane Arts Center is showing juried works by 21 young artists in the exhibit Next: Emerging Philadelphia Photographers.