Exhibition: Sat, Aug 27 to Sat, Dec 3 2011

This solo exhibition will feature a multi-channel video installation by the second of three 2010/2011 Working Artist Project winners.

Exhibition: Thu, Sep 8 to Sat, Oct 22 2011

Six artists from around the world confront the idea of the indexicality of the image, the composition of the new art object and what this says about our culture and its current aesthetics. The photographers’ source materials include Flickr, Google Earth, advertising and editorial images and painters of the Dutch Golden Age. Operations on the resources include digital layering, reformatting data, curating, old-fashioned paper folding and the creation and photography of the Demand-like diorama.

: Sat, Sep 24, 5:30pm - 8:30pm

: Fri, Oct 21, 6:30pm - 8pm

Artist's Talk

Jason Salavon and Penelope Umbrico will present their work.

Exhibition: Fri, Sep 9 to Sat, Oct 29 2011

Jackson Fine Art is thrilled and honored to present Proud Flesh, the latest series of striking photographs by Sally Mann that depicts an intimate and honest study of her husband, Larry Mann. During six years of vulnerable moments, Mann fearlessly depicts nudes of her husband as he struggles with muscular dystrophy.

In 1951 Mann was born in Virginia, where she and her husband currently reside. Known for her American gothic style of photography, Mann’s images are produced as contact prints made from wet-plate collodion negatives with a short exposure time. This process paired with the subject matter gives for a chilling aesthetic outcome. Mann is known for her charged themes of death and sexuality, which she beautifully juxtaposes candidly in this series.

Mann’s career is decorated with numerous awards, including three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of major museums and private collections, and noted by Time magazine as “America’s Best Photographer” in 2001. She is included in collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and The Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.

Photo credit: © Sally Mann. Courtesy of Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta and Gagosian Gallery, New York

: Fri, Sep 9, 6pm - 8pm

Exhibition: Fri, Sep 16 to Fri, Oct 14 2011

Abstraction Medium reveals the ancestral origins of the photo (light) graphic (print) process, in which light, a high ephemeral element, is captured and stored on a single form.

Temporal elements are present in the work of Margaret Hiden, who shows decay, chemical reactions and the transformation of photo-based materiality. Marcia Vaitsman archives time-based information from the media (as light) into one single frame. Rachel Speed experiments with creating imagery of the mysterious psyche, interpreted through introverted shadowy forms on lightboxes. All works engage the viewer in situations that are not to be seen with naked eye, challenge our perception of time and the identity of photography as the medium of truth. Photography can show us the loops and gaps in the perception of what we call reality. However, these abstract photos do not deny reality. They touch intricate situations without the illusion that the image itself can be the ultimate description of the reality we are trying to understand.

: Fri, Sep 16, 7pm - 10pm

Exhibition: Fri, Sep 16 to Thu, Nov 3 2011

“Everything represented in these images actually occurred, but, not necessarily simultaneously. We have deliberately chosen a medium, namely photography, recognized for its ability to capture a “precise moment" in time, to explore the possibilities of our interaction with the relativity of time and space.

Exhibition: Fri, Sep 16 to Thu, Nov 3 2011

WIF XVIII: Illumination-Interpreting Light and Life with Photography

Juried By: Brett Abbott, Curator-The High Museum Photography Collections.
Women In Focus In Focus is a creative network for women and a non-profit artist-initiated organization of photographers who have joined together to support and promote the photographic arts.

Exhibition: Fri, Sep 16 to Thu, Nov 3 2011

Abstraction Medium

Revisiting ancestral origins of photo [light] graphy [print]: light, a highly ephemeral element, is captured. TV, optics, psyche and movement unfold new possibilities of today’s photographic art.
Featuring: Margaret Hiden, Marcia Vaitsman, Rachel Speed

Exhibition: Fri, Sep 16 to Thu, Nov 3 2011

Featuring work by Women In Focus members and Juried by Brett Abbott.

Women In Focus is a non-profit, artist-initiated organization of women photographers, who have joined together to support and promote the photographic arts. All photographers "interpret the light" in different ways. Whether it is a sunbeam pouring through the clouds, or the light in the eyes of a child, or shining the light on the differences in our culture, photography illuminates the world around us. In this exhibit, the members of Women In Focus show how they interpret the light with their photography. For more information about Women in Focus, visit our website womeninfocus.us.

: Fri, Sep 16, 7pm - 10pm

: Fri, Sep 23, 7:30pm - 10pm

It's not too late to participate in ACP this year! Deadline for entries 9/10/11. Enter ready-to-hang photographs for review by Anna Skillman, owner Jackson Fine Art. If selected, your work will be exhibited in the APG Gallery and promoted during ACP. SELECTS is one of several exhibitions hosted by Atlanta Photography Group each year. APG invites renowned photography experts to judge submissions to be exhibited in the gallery. In addition to Selects, our final exhibition opportunity of 2011 is Portfolio Show with guest juror Julian Cox, Founding Curator of Photography and Chief Curator at the de Young Museum, San Francisco. Deadline for CD entries is October 29, 2011. Details for both exhibitions are available on our website.

Beginning in 2012, APG will be celebrating 25 years of advancing and supporting fine art photographers in Atlanta. APG is a 501(c)(3) non- profit organization.

: Sat, Oct 22, 11am - 12:30pm

Juror Talk with Anna Skillman

Atlanta Photography Group guest juror for SELECTS, Anna Skillman, owner of Jackson Fine Art, will discuss the process of selecting art for exhibition as well as the trending market in Fine art photography. Jackson Fine Art specializes in 20th century and contemporary photography and is an important voice in the southern and international fine art photography market.

Doors open at 10:30am for coffee and bagels. Talk starts at 11am in the APG Gallery.

: Fri, Sep 23, 7pm - 10pm

A two-person exhibition featuring photography that explores the natural beauty of the Okefenoke Swamp in Spring.
Exhibit also open on September 24 and October 1, 1:00-4:00 and by appointment.

Other: Thu, Oct 6, 7pm - 10pm

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During the First Thursday Gallery Walk, view a two-person exhibition featuring photography that explores the natural beauty of the Okefenokee Swamp in Spring. Also open for viewing on 9/24 & 10/1, 1:00-4:00 and by appointment.

Exhibition: Fri, Sep 23 to Fri, Oct 28 2011

Known for their Commercial, Fashion and Editorial work, these photographers each show their edgier side through their fine art photography. Taking it beyond glossy spreads, the show reflects the grittier side of humanity, street life and world views. A unique opportunity to see the other side of favorite Atlanta-based commercial photographers exposed.

: Fri, Sep 23, 7pm - 10pm

Exhibition: Sat, Sep 24 to Sat, Nov 12 2011

Through its history, photography has been an effective force to communicate a point of view or to advocate a cause. Stalin’s USSR used photography to motivate society toward a new social order and economic model. Roosevelt’s New Deal rallied support for an alphabet soup of federal agencies and his political aims. Others, from environmentalists to those advocating new art forms and means of expression, have utilized imagery to achieve their own objectives.

“photography abstracts real time and space…compressing what really happened into a metaphor with its’ own message”

: Sat, Sep 24, 5:30pm - 8:30pm

Exhibition: Fri, Sep 30 to Mon, Oct 3 2011

An exhibit highlighting the photographic talents of Atlanta Artists Center (AAC) members.

: Sat, Oct 1, 3pm - 5pm

Reception for the 7th AAC Photography Exhibit at the Buckhead Library

In the Library Community Room.

Exhibition: Sat, Oct 1 to Sun, Oct 30 2011

This group exhibition showcases the creative photography of over a dozen Atlanta Photographic Society (APS) members - both professionals and award winning amateurs. View 70+ fascinating images: color and black & white, of nature, people and the manmade. Awards are given for color, black & white and best in show. Learn more about APS at: atlantaphotographic.org

: Sat, Oct 15, 7pm - 9pm

Awards Reception

Free. The public is invited. Learn more about APS at:
atlantaphotographic.org

Exhibition: Sat, Oct 1 to Mon, Oct 31 2011

Charlie McCullers brings “twirl”, his latest works on paper to BEE. Charlie has been the official Atlanta Ballet Photographer since 2005. “twirl” features the unique relationship between the lens of Charlie’s camera and these amazing performing artists.

Exhibition: Sat, Oct 1 to Mon, Oct 31 2011

In 2008 I discovered an abandoned homestead in Maine.

When I (finally) climbed in a window to investigate the interior of the house, I was haunted and transfixed by the immediacy of the human lives, long vanished, that had unfolded there. It was as if the people who lived there had just stepped away, their abandoned possessions witness to a rich domestic life I recognized and understood but would never know the particulars of. Who had lived here? Why did they leave? And who had squatted in their wake, adding layers to the detritus of vanished lives? In the end it seemed not to matter. A sense of fragility and loss pervaded the place, the anonymity of human passage through the world a solitary truth that even the comforts of home could not dispel.

Comprising images marking passage, fragility and impending loss, this work grows out of classic themes of vanitas and memento mori long explored in art.

: Sat, Oct 1, 7pm - 10pm

Exhibition: Sat, Oct 1 to Sat, Dec 3 2011

Brett Abbott, Curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art, turned his discerning eye on MOCA GA’s permanent collection and selected the group of photographs which are featured in this exhibition.

Exhibition: Sat, Oct 1 to Mon, Oct 31 2011

Women In Focus is a non-profit artist-initiated organization of women photographers who have joined together to support and promote the photographic arts. Founded in 1993 by a group of women who recognized the need for a formal network of women photographers who could assist in each others' personal, professional, and artistic growth. Women In Focus has become a thriving organization whose diverse membership includes photographic artists ranging from beginners to seasoned professionals, all brought together by their passion for photography. Women In Focus values each individual member for the unique contributions that she brings to the organization and strives to provide all members with the resources that they need to thrive as artists. Women In Focus is dedicated to facilitating a forum for open dialogue regarding photography in all of its forms. Educational programs address both technical proficiency and scholarship by incorporating lectures, workshops, and critiques and by covering topics relating to the history and business of photography as well as the creation of images. Women In Focus engages in community activity by hosting events all around Atlanta. The scope of the group's activities is further extended past the geographical area of its home base through an Internet presence and joint projects with women photographers around the world.
womeninfocus.us

: Sat, Oct 1, 6pm - 9pm

Exhibition: Mon, Oct 3 to Mon, Oct 31 2011

The idea of flight inspires. We long to be a bird. We travel into space. We follow a balloon as it floats into the sky. It feels good to plant our feet on the earth and call it home, but it feels even better to soar. With air beneath our feet and open space around us, we get a new perspective on things. We imagine. The 96-foot-long exhibition wall in Pace Academy's Fine Arts Center has inspired me to create an installation piece which is a photographic poem about winged (and other) flights of fancy. I hope that this blend of traditional photography and mixed media imagery - in a fluid collage format - will inspire you to fly away.

: Thu, Oct 6, 6pm - 8:30pm

Exhibition: Tue, Oct 4 to Fri, Dec 2 2011

MOCA GA presents photographs, proofs, slides, notes and other career documentation cataloguing Gretchen Hupfel’s life and work.

Book Signing: Wed, Oct 5, 6:30pm - 8pm

Mary Virginia Swanson will be presenting "To be Published, or Self-published?", with special guests Laura Noel, and Bill Boling.

The print-on-demand revolution has opened up new publishing possibilities for photographers; it has never been easier or more affordable to produce and market a book of your photographs. The traditional publishing path has the advantage of a highly specialized team that brings experience with design, production, marketing and distribution systems to the table. In a self-publishing scenario you can create exactly the book you envision, but without the input and expertise of seasoned professionals at a publishing house. Which scenario is best for you?

In this illustrated presentation, Mary Virginia Swanson will discuss both avenues to publishing and help participants determine the pros/cons of each, sharing resources from her recent title with coauthor Darius Himes, Publish Your Photography Book (Princeton Architectural Press, Spring 2011).

Special guest photographer Laura Noel and publisher Bill Boling of Fall Line Press will discuss their journey together in publishing “Free Fall”. Time will be allocated for Q&A with Swanson, Noel and Boling following their presentations.

: Fri, Oct 7, 6pm - 9pm

Ilia Varcev - "stories from home"
Lila Campbell - "the everyday/everyman"
Diane Kirkland - "magic in the southern landscape"
Richie Arpino - "post 911" and "post Katrina" series
Kim Painter Chesney - "world travels" photography/mixed media
Donna Rosser - "the barefoot photographer"

Ilia Varcev is a local icon (although he protests "I'm not an artist, I just take pictures") - bringing a collection of new stories (Atlanta and native Bulgaria) which capture the spirit of people & place in every frame. Former "Artist in Residence" recipient (Georgia Department of Natural Resources) Diane Kirkland will be exhibiting her famed "Landscapes of Georgia" series. With a camera and a passport, Kim Painter Chesney has people & places from around the globe - which she completes in encaustic/mixed media format - from Hong Kong to England; Thailand to India; Italy to Singapore - a vibrant and energetic shot of our world. "The Barefoot Photographer" (Donna Rosser) is inspired by the usual everyday subject – but it is her unusual interpretation that makes her photos completely her own. Donna’s work is of the moment - free, loose, and intriguing. Lila Campbell (self proclaimed "no-box thinker") takes on people, life, color and imagination through the lens - all with a creative 'wink' at what is all around us. Still-life and commercial photographer Richie Arpino will be unveiling his "post 911" and "post Katrina" photo-journalism series. A story told from his heart and soul, this collection is a departure from his commercial work and we can't wait to unveil.

Exhibition: Fri, Oct 7 to Sat, Oct 29 2011