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This exhibition sees 15 emerging photographic artists present their new work. The show has no fixed theme, allowing for greater diversity and presenting the audience with a variety of subject matter. The work will be displayed using a wide range of presentation styles in the raw space that is The Back Loft at La Cathedral Studios. The Gallery of Photography, Dublin, is involved in this show. After the show has opened, The Gallery of Photography will further curate 5593 into an online exhibition, hosted on www.galleryofphotography.ie

Artists include:
Amanda Gourley - Carol Marks - Daniel Graham - Daniel Holfeld - Darran Murray - George McManus - Jane McGarrigle - Jennie O’Rourke - Lee Costello - Lorraine Tierney - Louise Phipps - Niamh Grimes - Phillip Murray - Ruth Medjber - Teresa Varela Martin

Opening night – Tuesday 15th May 2007 @ 6pm.
Venue: The Back Loft, c/o La Cathedral Studios, 7/8 Augustine Street.
Entry: Free
Running from: 16-20 May 2007, 12-6pm

Mark Schaden from Schaden books, will head the discussion next Thursday 3rd of May on “Trends in Contemporary Photography Publishing” at the Gallery of Photography (Meeting House Square, Dublin). The panel includes Mark Curran (photographer), David Farrell (artist) and Martin McCabe (lecturer in the DIT School of Media and curator).

Admission is free if you contact the gallery to book your space at 01-6714654 or contacting them through the site.

Perhaps you can catch the video from MSNBC.

Inmigrant Madrid. Six visions on Madrid’s inmigration.

Curated by the photographers Chema Conesa and Diana Saldaña, offers about 200 photographs about inmigration, integration and individuality agaisnt the generalisations. Amongst other photographers Inmigrant Madrid shows the work of Carl de Keyzer, Donovan Wylie, Matías Costa, Susan Meiselas, Cristina García Rodero and Carlos Sanva. An exhibition organised by Madrid City Council, in colaboration with Magnum Photos. Opens the 25th of April, and will run until the 27th of May in the Gallery at Canal de Isabel II.

Via EL Pais, MadridDiario, Tele 5, El Cultural and El Mundo

Henri Cartier-Bresson was taken prisoner by the Germans in 1940. After two unsuccessful attempts, he managed to escape in 1943. During this time, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, assuming that the photographer had died in the war, started preparing what they thought was a posthumous exhibition of his work.

When he reappeared, Cartier-Bresson was delighted to learn of the exhibition, and decided to review his entire work and curate it himself. In 1946 he travelled to New York with about 300 prints in his suitcase, bought a scrapbook, glued each one in, and brought that album to MoMA’s curators. His first exhibition, a celebration of his survival, opened on 4 February 1947.

In the 1990s, Cartier-Bresson once again returned to this scrapbook. Following his death in 2004, the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, the present owner of the prints, finished restoring them, making it possible to bring a large body of extraordinary, hitherto unpublished work to the public, images that have finally become a memorial collection after all.

Photographs by Henri-Cartier Bresson. Introduction by Agnès Sire. Essay by Michel Frizot. Foreword by Martine Franck
Thames & Hudson, London, 2007. 262 pp., Tritone illustrations throughout, 12×10″.

Via http://www.photoeye.com

While reading about the French election results in the three main Spanish newspapers, I observed a tendency to add an orange cast on the face of the politicians whose politics are not shared by the paper’s ideology. And so in ‘El Pais‘ Sarkozy is shown with a weird orange cast in his face. While in ‘El Mundo’, Royal suffers the same treatment. In the ‘ABC‘ newspaper, the reference goes to God, as both personalities look up in search of divine intervention. Nothing new up to here. But I am surprised that the use of the Oompa-Loompa Photoshop filter is a usual practice, as I can not think it is a coincidence. Well, I had a look at other international news agencies and it seems to be only a Spanish thing. In ‘Le Monde‘ a cartoon is used to represent the contestants where Royal appears with a normal skin tone and Sarkozy is a square headed human. Of course, the BBC shows us how to be proper. I found a conference in Paris on the subject of “Politic Photography - Politics of Photography“, perhaps they will talk about the Oompa-Loompa Photoshop filter. Just a thought.

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