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Group hug – Togetherness in Philadelphia’s photo community
Stephen Perloff is plugged in to Philadelphia’s photo world via his esteemed quarterly publication, The Photo Review. A self-taught photographer with a graduate degree in history, he made himself invaluable to photographers and photo lovers, covering all aspects of photography in his journal and turning that publication into a virtual Philadelphia photo center — a place to read about exhibitions; read interviews with artists; and find the latest opportunities. Perloff launched the Photo Review in 1976, and he characterized that era in Philadelphia as a golden age for photography. As for the current photo scene, “We’re getting back to the ... More » »
News – ONWARD 2012, The New, New Masses, and more…
NEWS The Nicola Midnight St. Claire (temporarily The New, New Masses) The gloriously quirky art publication The Nicola Midnight St. Claire held an auction in order to change the site’s name for a month. So if you go to the website looking for the St. Claire you will instead find The New, New Masses with a funny–but slippery–video message about the spirit of giving, consumerism, and internet freedom, plus some holiday “gifs” for everyone to enjoy. Macaulay Culkin, anyone?
News: Vollis Simpson ArtPlace grant, Dilworth + Occupy, Cannonball Press and opportunities
News Vollis Simpson Park receives ArtPlace grant We told you back in September that Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe received grants from ArtPlace, well here is another great use of the money from that organization.
New News: Comedy at PhilaMOCA, POST studio tours, Campuzano run-in with a snake
News Comedy Night @ PhilaMOCA This Saturday, October 1, at 7:00 PM, PhilaMOCA will be the site of I LOVE MITCH HEDBERG: Art for the Late Great Comedian. A number of comedy acts (including comedy by Andrew Jeffrey Wright), refreshments, and artwork are on tap. Special guest Lynn Shawcroft will screen a video of unreleased Mitch Hedberg comedy footage.
Onward! and upward with photos at Basho
With internationally recognized photographer Larry Fink as juror, Project Basho has once again made its annual photography show a must-see event–an event that this year brought in submissions from 600 photographers. Of the 63 photographers selected, only a couple were familiar to me, some of them from as far away as Japan, Moscow and Spain.
ONWARD and upwards with Project Basho
#47. Sarah Kaufman“Untitled, Blue Smoke” Digital C-Print, 40″ x 40″, Edition 1 of 10(Juror Award). From Project Basho’s ONWARD. Sometimes I’m an early adopter, and sometimes it takes me a while. For example, only last weekend did I make it to Project Basho — for the first time ever (it’s been open for about a year and a half). They’ve got a wonderful group photography exhibit on view and I met one of the artists in the show, Isaac Schell, at the space for a chat. Speaking of early adopters, here’s Libby’s post about Basho’s 2008 ONWARD show, which sounds ... More » »
Photography off the grid at Basho
Installation shot at Project Basho Something old, something new, something borrowed and cyanotype are mixing things up at Project Basho. My first visit there ever was Thursday, and I drove by the place twice, on a street where there were no other options. Finally I asked a rare passerby for help and he directed me to the only place with lights on. Duh. Basho is one of the city’s new co-op darkrooms that opened in the past year. It’s on Germantown Ave., a couple of blocks north of Girard. The exhibit there, ONWARD ’08, is a juried group show, capturing ... More » »
Photographic convergence
The table across from us at Art for the Cash Poor last weekend was Project Basho, a new photographer’s group near 3rd and Girard that offers darkrooms, classes and a gallery. Then today I got something from Yo! darkroom, which sounds like the same sort of deal at 23rd and Arch. Yo! has an open house Friday. Anyone know anything about why this sudden flowering of photographic groups is happening? Are they aware of each other or is it just a coincidence? Anywy, thought some of you would like to know this was happening.
