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© Filip Wolak Courtesy MCNY

Our pals at the Museum of the City of New York and El Museo del Barrio announce this year's line up for their outdoor Wednesday parties celebrating summer and uptown NYC! Don't miss the tribute to Prince!

Wednesday, August 3
 The Museum of the City of New York | A Tribute to Prince
- Joey Carvello and DJ Woof spinning the Purple One's grooves
- Carlos Neto teaching street jazz dance moves

El Museo del Barrio | Bling it On
- DJ Oscar Nñ spins a blend of urban and virtual club sounds with latinx undertones
- Design your own fashion accessories
- Curator led tour of ANTONIO LOPEZ: Future Funk Fashion

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© Filip Wolak Courtesy MCNY

Wednesday, August 10
The Museum of the City of New York | NYC's Greatest Hits
- Misbehaviour of Mobile Mondays! spins the Big Apple's most memorable songs
- Karen NG's dance troupe performs with trumpeter Omar Akil Little
- Book launch of Alan Bortman's Uptown & Downtown: Old Skool Paintings on NYC Subway Maps with an all-star crew of graffiti writers - get your copy signed!
 
El Museo del Barrio | Sew What
- DJ Riobamba returns with Digital Diaspora tunes!
- Weave your own textile using synthetic materials
- Live fashion illustrations by Steven Broadway and friends
 
Wednesday, August 17 | THE FINALE
The Museum of the City of New York | 80'S Dance Party
- Misbehaviour & DJ Boogie Blind of Mobile Mondays! spin Hip-Hop, Pop, and New Wave!
- Uko Snowbunny teaches Hip-Hop dance
 
El Museo del Barrio | Revista Fashionista
- DJ Oscar Nñ closes out Uptown Bounce
- Create your own fashion zine
- Curator led tour of ANTONIO LOPEZ: Future Funk Fashion

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© Filip Wolak Courtesy MCNY

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Chicano Park, San Diego, California © J Raymond Mireles  

aCurator contributing photographer* John Mireles recently embarked upon a journey to begin capturing the current face of America in intimate portraits. John has now completed the West Coast and will soon set off on a three-month cross-country road trip to complete the project.

In the meantime, Mireles brought the portraits live and large to his own neighborhood - check out the dedicated Neighbors website and you can watch Mireles talk about the series in his home town of San Diego in "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors"


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Taylor Shellfish Farms, Shelton, Washington

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Lost Horse Saloon, Marfa, Texas

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Capitol Hill, Washington DC

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AllWays Lounge, New Orleans, Louisiana All images © John Mireles

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 Give it up for Aunt Doll! Sharing her Aunt's realness with the rest of us in a rather fabulous fashion, Michelle Maguire, a photographer and prop stylist based in Columbus, Ohio, has published a "small-edition artist's book featuring eye-popping, hand-printed images of my blunt, funny, completely unimpressed Italian-American great-aunt, Doll, with colorful Aunt Doll anecdotes by my husband Aaron Beck."

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"Aunt Doll, age 84, has lived in Canton, Ohio, her entire life. She cusses, loves cured meats, knows more about the NFL than you do, plays strip mall slot machines with her vegetarian hairdresser of 42 years, isn't trying to be funny but is, worships the sun from her concrete-slab patio, and frets about nothing except her beloved Italian bread causing her to pack on the pounds."

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"Aunt Doll makes the most if it. The gist of her story: enjoy every chicken wing while you holler at the Browns on your gigantic analog TV, because we aren't here forever. She'll cuss you out in one breath and in the very next, offer you a salami sandwich."

Definitely good value and Michelle is also making the most of it over on her website in the Salami Dreamin' pages.

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All images © Michelle Maguire

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  Gonchigsuren Vanchin is a Mongolian photographer with a 40 year history as a photojournalist. 

Gonchigsuren has launched a fundraiser not just to have his worthy book published AND have an exhibition, but ALSO included is a competition for young photographers - he is a noble man with a fantastic archive who deserves your backing. This is the first campaign I have seen in a while where the book is under $50 - it's $39 and will be well worth it (+ shipping!)

Please spread the word and help show the world this little-seen history "One feature of this book is showing the difference between daily lives in socialism and democracy."  I challenge you to watch the video and not fall in love. 

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Chris Killip
From the series In Flagrante Two
Two girls, Grangetown, Middlesbrough, Teeside, 1975
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© Chris Killip, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York

Last month, I was talking to a photographer I admire enormously and he told me had just seen one the best photographs of his life, at Yossi Milo here in NYC. It turned out to be the above 'Two Girls' by Chris Killip, whose photos I have much admired after embarrassingly only discovering him rather late in life. The exhibition was ending the following day so I bunked off work for the afternoon and headed to Chelsea.

Yossi Milo Gallery's presentation of fifty gelatin silver prints from the photographs that constituted his book 'In Flagrante' (Secker & Warburg, 1988) hand-printed by Killip, is the first time since 1988 that the series has been exhibited in its entirety and the first time ever in the United States. The images are culturally familiar and endearing to me and it was interesting to talk to some of the American viewers about the miners' strike and the Queen's silver jubilee street parties I remember so well. 

The unassuming photographer has been working at Harvard as professor of visual and environmental studies for many years and apparently will soon retire and cease printing his negatives. So if you're thinking about purchasing a print, now is the time to do it. 

Yossi Milo is pleased to announce that the J. Paul Getty Museum now owns a set of all 50 of Killip's prints and will mount an exhibition in the coming months. The book, In Flagrante Two, is out now from Steidl.


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Princess Elizabeth, 1951 by Yousuf Karsh

The Bank of Canada honored the historic reign of Queen Elizabeth on September 9th, 2015, with the launch of a commemorative bank note. The note is a variation of the existing $20, and features this portrait from 1951 of then-Princess Elizabeth, by Yousuf Karsh. The same photo, with her tiara removed, was previously used for the 1954 Canadian Landscape series as well as for a commemorative note in 1967 marking Canada's centennial.  

If you like that sort of thing you can read more about the new note, and Canada's bank note history, in this interesting article. 

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Monica Smith, New York, May 2015 © Marissa Roth

This portrait is the culmination, in photographs at least, of Marissa Roth's now 31-year-long journey. 

"This portrait of Monica Smith, who is Anne Frank's second cousin, is the final portrait of my 31-year odyssey that is the global photo essay,"One Person Crying: Women and War."

"I had the opportunity to photograph and interview Mrs Smith one day before her 92nd birthday this past May, at home in Manhattan. It was a great honor and profound pleasure to meet her and to feel her indomitable spirit which continues to prevail in spite of the many emotional heartbreaks that she endured in her life.

"Monica Smith was born Dorothee Wurzburger in Stuttgart, Germany, on May 10, 1923. Her mother and Anne Frank's mother were first cousins, and Anne was six years younger than her. In 1938, when it became increasingly evident that the situation for Jews in Germany was dangerous, Mrs. Smith's parents put her on a Kindertransport to Holland where she was housed in an orphanage near Amsterdam.

"Anne and Otto Frank would come and visit her regularly and bring peanuts. "I didn't realize that she would become a saint. Maybe that's what was needed. Her fingers were always covered with ink".

"In 1940, Mrs. Smith was reunited with her parents and they went to England where they boarded the RMS Samaria for the transatlantic crossing that took them to New York and would save their lives."

Prints from "One Person Crying" make up a traveling exhibition. See news and updates over on the One Person Crying blogsite.  

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Uptown Bounce, 2014 © Filip Wolak/ MCNY 

"Free Summer Block Party Series Connecting East Harlem and Museum Mile Featuring Live Music, Art, Food and More."

Summer is most definitely upon us and I for one am looking forward to New York City's stinking hot August. But 'Uptown Bounce' kicks off this Wednesday, July 22, 2015! From 6-9 pm, El Museo del Barrio and Museum of the City of New York Present Uptown Bounce: Summer Nights @ 104th and Fifth.

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All images: Uptown Bounce, 2014 © Filip Wolak/ MCNY
 

The Hip Hop Revolution exhibition is still on at MCNY and should not be missed. Featuring the photographs of three photographers, Janette Beckman, Joe Conzo, and Martha Cooper, the exhibition is an immersive experience that includes personal ephemera such as polaroids signed by the musicians on set. 

At the opening for Hip Hop Revolution I was shocked at the number of New Yorkers who confessed they had never been to the Museum of the City of New York before. Get it sorted, people! 


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© Karl Blossfeldt Archiv / Stiftung Ann und Jürgen Wilde, Pinakothek der Moderne, München. 
Courtesy Michael Hoppen Gallery

Very interesting to see that Michael Hoppen Gallery now has a gallery of images available to purchase online

Talking to the BJP: "The online shop will allow us to not only showcase new and emerging talent, that otherwise might not have made its way into the main gallery space, but will also aim to expose some fascinating projects and one off pieces from within the collection," says Hoppen. "I think our programme of online shows will have something for everyone."

I have been curious about online print sales for years now, who is buying online, at what price points. "Affordable" might be the key here, but I still say "who knows?". Good luck to Hoppen on taking this step.

Newly available first edition gravures from Karl Blossfeldt's gorgeous plant series for £250! 

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© Karl Blossfeldt Archiv / Stiftung Ann und Jürgen Wilde, Pinakothek der Moderne, München.

Also now online are images from Matt Henry, who says of his series 'My personal practice focuses on America during the 1960s and 1970s. The works take the form of staged scenes constructed as set-builds in the UK using props sourced from here and the United States."

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© Matt Henry 

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© Matt Henry

And just launched are Joseph Szabo's Rolling Stones Fans. In 1978 Szabo was gifted a ticket by two of his students in return for a ride to see the gig in Philadelphia. He found himself immersed in a crowd of 90,000... A book is out now.


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© Joseph Szabo 

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© Joseph Szabo

Hoppen are also promoting their artist Eamonn Doyle and his just-released book "ON" which includes kind words from Martin Parr: "With this new series of work he has come back down to street level and made a series of scenarios showing the intricacies, and indeed mysteries of life on the Dublin streets. The images are often details of a wider take and are the kind of observations we all make when we walk along, but would never dream of capturing."  They will be offering signed copies soon. 

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© Eamonn Doyle
All images courtesy Michael Hoppen Gallery.

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The photography world lost a Great last month, with the departure of the lovely Harold Feinstein. Feinstein's wife, Judith Thompson, had wisely spent several years recording him speaking about his life and work - just a short clip of which is seen here. "This clip, edited from a 15 minute reverie on life and photography came from a taped conversation on June 17th, just three days before he passed. Here he speaks about the gift of life and the continuous adventure of unwrapping this gift...even after departing from the body. Harold's appreciation for life and beauty will live on through his images and teachings for generations to come."

"When your mouth drops open, click the shutter." - Harold Feinstein

Check out a previous blog post, celebrating Feinstein's retrospective book.

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