“If there is something to write home about in the dance world, it is the startlingly imaginative works of Shen Wei.” The New York Times
The ADF is delighted to present the World Premiere of Shen Wei’s complete Re- (I, II, III). The entire Re- cycle will be performed together for the very first time as the Festival's inaugural performance in the beautiful new Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC). Shen Wei Dance Arts has garnered critical acclaim the world over since its inception at the 2000 ADF. The first two parts of the cycle, Re- Part I (originally commissioned by the 2006 ADF), and Re- Part II (originally set by Shen Wei on Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal) are inspired by various world cultures, geography, and an artist’s experiences abroad. Re- Part III, an ADF commissioned World Premiere, also explores the relationship between the individual and community, and the difference between the role of the individual in Chinese and Western life. Festival-goers will be among the first to see Shen Wei’s complete Re- program before the company’s three continent tour.

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“Definitely not more of the same, this troupe of Wonder Women tells us something is stirring, even exploding, in Japanese contemporary danace.”The New York Times
Sakiko Oshima and Naoko Shirakawa of H. Art Chaos, one of Japan’s top dance companies, bring their acclaimed work The Rite of Spring (1995) to the 2009 Festival and will also collaborate with musician Alan Terricciano and ADF dancers while in residence to bring you an ADF commissioned World Premiere. Paired with the harmonically and rhythmically adventurous music of Igor Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring is an intensely physical piece complete with aerial feats. Also of note, H. Art Chaos’ choreographer Sakiko Oshima was a participant in ADF’s 1996 International Choreographer’s Residency Program. Don’t miss this evening of provocative and powerful dance as you’ve never seen it before!
Collaborative New Work is commissioned with support from the SHS Foundation. H. Art Chaos performances are supported in part by the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, Duke University.photo by Etsuko Matsuyamahttp://www.americandancefestival.org/performances/2009/2009performances.html

Anuchai Photographer

Anuchai Secharunputong has been ranked at the very beginning numbers of international photographers ranking arranged by Archive magazine every year. (For more information, please visit http://www.luerzersarchive.com/). In 2004, he was ranked number one photographer by Archive Magazine. In the same year, Anuchai has been promoted by Archive magazine to be one of 200 world best photographers. And his achievements are announced in 200 Best Ad Photographers Worldwide Book, 2004 – 2009. For domestic rank, Archive Magazine has put him on the first rank for over 5 years continuously.

http://www.anuchai.com/blog/?page_id=3
http://www.anuchai.com/blog/?p=103


three-year journey through 76 provinces around the country to capture H.M.K. pictures in all Thai’s residence.The journey that obviously proved our love, respect and loyalty to our beloves King from all of Thai’s hearts.18 October – 18 November 2007 at The Queen’ s Gallery
http://www.anuchai.com/blog/?p=185

Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light

Richard Avedon

In the American West was the result of a commission from the Amon Carter Museum of Fort Worth, in Texas. From 1979 to 1984, Avedon photographed men and women in the American West, most of them working folk. In the process, he travelled across several states of the Great Plains and the Rockies, paying special attention to specific sites and events such as ranches, coalmines, cattle fairs, oil wells, slaughterhouses, truck stops, modest diners and offices. He photographed the homeless, housewives, cowboys, miners, prisoners and rodeo riders. His strategy was to build up a network of portraits, weaving a series of psychological, sociological, physical and familial connections between these individuals who had never met. All the photos in this series were taken in broad daylight and outdoors, looking for a certain quality of shadow, against a simple white paper backdrop hung on the side of a truck. The uncompromising photographs that resulted caused quite a controversy when they were first shown in Texas because of Avedon’s “demystifying” vision of that Promised Land, the American West, that land of pioneers and conquerors.”

In parallel to his fashion photographs, Richard Avedon made numerous portraits, radically transforming the codes of genre, as did that other great American photographer, Irving Penn. But Avedon went even further than Penn. He shattered the iconic images of the stars of show business, literature, the arts and the political elite in the United States. His portraits show all the facets of his models’ personality, however great their mastery of the codes of representation. The use of white grounds, the bareness of the compositions, helped to bring a searching psychological dimension to each subject. Generally speaking, Avedon sought to capture the true nature of things rather than to reproduce them superficially. During his photography sessions, he sought out that very special moment when he could capture and set down the psychological intensity emanating from the sitter. For, to photograph someone “meant looking beyond the charm of the face and establishing a relation between the vital presence of the other and his own, that is to say, finding the moment when everything converged and happened.

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http://www.egodesign.ca/en/article.php?article_id=235

http://www.richardavedon.com/

http://www.artphotogallery.org/02/artphotogallery/photographers/richard_avedon_02.html

http://www.jeudepaume.org/?_langue_=english&PHPSESSID=d3c83eeb381e54de1ca8c6d832c66012

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regulation of violence on TV: an essay

Television violence has been a public concern ever since the small screen first dominated living rooms in the 1950s. While the argument mostly bubbles under, it comes to the fore whenever someone apportions blame to television for a real life violent incident. What is the relationship between on-screen violence and brutality in real life? Does television require more regulation? Or is it merely a convenient target of blame? This paper will examine the arguments for and against more regulation of television violence and analyse some of the research done on the subject in the US, Britain, Canada and Australia.

Art Print: A close-up of a ballerina practising her art captures the classic beauty of dance, as do many other acclaimed photographs by Harvey Edwards; Edwards was a base and aerial photographer during the Vietnam War and is best known for his images of ballet dancers.

Kim Weston has been a fine art photographer for 30 years specializing in large format photography. His main body of work consists of silver contact prints made from 8x10 negatives. In addition to the 8x10 format he prints in 11x14 and 16x20 sizes, 20x24 are available by special order only. These beautiful and expressive Black and White photographs are hand printed, archivally processed and mounted on museum quality mat board. They are signed on the front by the artist. Throughout the site you will find a treasure of images to browse through and collect from.
Many of these images can also be found in our Print of the Month Portfolio section. Enjoy looking!www.kimweston.com/kim_weston/kimweston_6.htm

http://www.balletphotography.com.au/#fourth

http://www.behindballet.com/author/juliet-burnett/#

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Painted Kangaroo Sculptures To Be Displayed In New York City
NEW YORK - DECMBER 8: In this handout photo from Gen Art, Glenn Tripp (L) and Sean McMahill carry an 'Aussie Roo', a decorated kangaroo sculpture presented by Gen Art, a non-profit organization for emerging artists, through Times Square December 8, 2004, in New York City. Eleven painted kangaroos will be paraded in New York City until Australia Day on January 26, 2005.
Photo: Getty Images

Very interesting gallery of advertisements among people in their daily lives by Henry Ho. Henry’s work here is creative, sometimes humorous and other times thought provoking– but always excellent photography.
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History of Photography Podcasts

Class lectures with Jeff Curto from College of DuPage

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The PodcastThis podcast is recorded during class lectures for History of Photography, Photo 1105 at College of DuPage. The podcasts are intended as review for students in the class, but thousands of people around the world have found them useful to their education as photographers. Please be aware that there are many links to relevant class information on the class’ main web page, as well as a course syllabus – use the links to the right to find that information.

http://photohistory.jeffcurto.com/

http://www.cod.edu/photo/curto/1105/index.htm

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A Comprehensive Resource Dedicated to the Photogravure

The Death of Photogravure

“There is a sense of panic out there…” were the words of Dick Sullivan, proprietor of Bostick-Sullivan. “Without it, photogravure in its present form will cease to exist. End of story,” were Craig Zammiello’s words. ”This is very big!!!! and harrowing!” said Jon Goodman.

http://www.photogravure.com/blog/#

magnumphotos.com Archive

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June 28, 2008
Access To Life: Kassi Keita and Mariam Dembele
Martin Fuchs

"What I witnessed in Mali is such a giant leap forward that only a few years ago it was just unthinkable. Working in this human landscape it’s a lot about feeling for these people and what they go through. These emotional aspects were even stronger in Kassi’s case because he was such a small and cute little kid. As it sometimes happens in life there is a strange immediate connection to somebody and in my case, of all the people in Mali that I met, it was with him and his mother. Despite the fact that we couldn’t really communicate that well - at least verbally - but I just had a great immediate sense of emotion and pathos for this young child, this young man."Paolo Pellegrin on his experience working with Kassi Keita and Mariam Dembele.
Links» Access To Life / Mali» Access To Life Website» The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

http://blog.magnumphotos.com/behind_the_image/
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March 18, 2008
W A R S - A series of four essays revolving around a common topic
Claudine Boeglin and Adrian Kelterborn

Magnum In Motion has set a new format, as a series of four essays where photographers' imagery, experiences, and commentary come together to explore a given theme.

WARS, the inaugural series will launch on the Magnum In Motion home page, March 19, five years after the war in Iraq began. It will be published on Slate as four episodes.

The point of departure was a quote extracted from Magnum photographer Philip Jones Griffiths from a 2006 interview conducted in London by Magnum In Motion.

The British photographer, and author of the book Vietnam Inc. (1971), said with tongue in cheek: "Photographers are either mud people or sand people. I'm a mud person."

Three photographers covering conflicts today were asked to react to this quote with their own experiences of documenting wars.

Christopher Anderson "It’s not actually the dead that I have seen in the Middle East, the physical destruction, that takes the toll: It’s this sense of this endless cycle. It’s hard to go and watch the similar sort of circumstances play themselves out over and over again."

Paolo Pellegrin "While covering the war in Lebanon in 2006, bombs and missiles were exploding around us—but you never saw who was launching them. It was different from all the wars I had covered before, where you always had a sense of front lines and space and your presence within that space. This might be the way future wars look."Thomas Dworzak "I’m embedded with the Americans in Iraq. As a Westerner, there is no more access to the insurgent’s side. I don’t claim to have any overview. History made my choice—it’s fine!"

Please let us know what you think, we will appreciate all feedback a lot!
http://blog.magnumphotos.com/behind_the_project/
http://blog.magnumphotos.com/2007/10/the_khmer_chronicles_issue_nr_2_can_cultural_identity_go_private.html#more
http://blog.magnumphotos.com/from_the_field/
http://blog.magnumphotos.com/chienchi_chang.html
http://blog.magnumphotos.com/2007/04/field_of_dreamers.html#more

http://www.holdenluntz.com/exhibitions/subjective_reality/isabella_berr-1.htm

http://www.holdenluntz.com/exhibitions/exhibitions.htm

americansuburbx.com

http://www.americansuburbx.com/2008/01/theory-browse-articles.html

http://www.americansuburbx.com/2007/12/links-photographers.html

http://www.1000wordsmag.com/