Art Photography

Jackson Fine Art owner an influential tastemaker for art collectors

By Alice G. Collins 2 months ago

The experience of entering Jackson Fine Art on Buckhead’s sleepy East Shadownlawn Avenue is for that reason, an utterly novel one. The manicured landscaping and vintage house, with its white-painted brick, twin peaked rooflines and Tudor-style black trim, is fairy tale charming.

One of the country's premiere photography galleries, Jackson Fine Art sits in a modest bungalow on a quiet Buckhead street. Courtesy of Jackson Fine Art

One of the country’s premiere photography galleries, Jackson Fine Art sits in a modest bungalow on a quiet Buckhead street.
Courtesy of Jackson Fine Art

Credit: Handout

Credit: Handout

Hanging on the walls, photographer Erik Madigan Heck’s romantic, color saturated image of a woman in a scarlet ball gown racing through a formal garden or his ecstatic shot of a brunette in a grove of forsythia offer windows into lush fantasy. But there is a coziness to Jackson Fine Art that makes a visitor feel like a photograph costing five figures would be perfectly suitable to their own home. To help visualize it, the gallery has an app

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Light Work Presents the 2021 Transmedia Photography Annual

By Alice G. Collins 2 months ago

Light Work has announced the 2021 Transmedia Photography Annual exhibition of photographs by seniors from the art photography BFA program in the Department of Transmedia in the College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Dan Lyon, “Purgatory,” 2020, courtesy of Light Work

The exhibition will run through March 4 at Light Work. As Light Work’s galleries remain closed to the public because of the COVID-19 pandemic, patrons are encouraged to exhibitions online and participate in online events.

The exhibiting artists are Sam Bennett, Li Chen, Kate Hall, Torian Love, Dan Lyon, Neva Knoll, Jillian McHugh, Natalie Richard, Alana Swaringen, Bailey Thurmond, Sarah Vinette and Ally Walsh.

 

Gregory Eddi Jones, founding editor and publisher of In the In-Between, served as juror and selected images for Best of Show and Honorable Mention awards. Dan Lyon was awarded Best of Show, and Honorable Mention honors were awarded to Kate Hall, Sarah Vinette and

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Sarah Meister, MoMA Photography Curator, Departs to Lead Aperture Foundation

By Alice G. Collins 2 months ago

Sarah Meister, a longtime photography curator at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, has been tapped to lead the Aperture Foundation, the storied photography nonprofit. The appointment comes after a year-long search to replace executive director Chris Boot, who after ten years at the helm is relocating to his native England.

Since its 1952 founding in San Francisco by eminent photographers including Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Minor White, Aperture has been a major force in shaping discourse in the field, currently publishing monographs and a quarterly magazine and programming events and exhibitions devoted to the medium. In addition to overseeing these, Meister will help find a new physical headquarters for the company, which prior to the pandemic maintained an exhibition space in Chelsea.

“Aperture’s publishing program, meaning their books and magazine, are central to anyone thinking about photography today,” Meister told the New York Times. “My whole

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Brentwood Photography Group Offers Free Classes

By Alice G. Collins 2 months ago

BPG has offered these Photography Basics classes for years to the group’s nearly 200 members but is opening them to the public at no cost for 2021. Initially, the classes will be offered online via Zoom and require advance registration. To register, go to https://brentwoodphotographygroup.org/photography-basics/ and click on the “Register Here” link. If you experience any issues with registration, email Teran at [email protected].

The classes will be presented at 7 p.m., on the second Tuesday of each month from February through August.

“Later in the year, we hope to be able to present the classes live,” Teran said. “However, for now, we are planning to offer them online and will archive the classes on our YouTube channel for people who cannot participate in the live presentation. If you aren’t sure if you will be able to attend the classes as they are presented, go ahead and register so

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