FotoWeek Central in Georgetown
Photograph by Lynn Ackerson
When I was asked to write a blog for FotoWeek, my first thought was how much fun it would be to run around to all of the exhibitions, lectures, and parties. I overlooked one rather crucial fact--that I would need to leave time to actually write. And not only time to write. To have any chance of transforming my impressions into anything meaningful or even coherent (okay, semi-coherent), I'd also need time to absorb everything I was seeing and hearing throughout the week. It's dangerously easy to spit out the most superficial copy when there's no time to think about what anything means or to research any background.
This blog has been an interesting experiment for someone like me: a non-writer and a non-photographer (a double whammy). But even if I were good at doing both, I simply don't understand how anyone can write and photograph at the same time. I'm not ambidextrous, and I simply cannot juggle a camera and a notepad simultaneously. (I could have used twin brains, too.) What do mojos (mobile journalists) do?
Over 260 photo books on display at Artefacto Exhibit Space
Photograph by Lynn Ackerson
I'm thrilled to be getting my life back post-FotoWeek (and blissful at the prospect of sleep--I can't function on five hours a night anymore!). But even though all of the parties are over and all of the awards have been handed out--congratulations, by the way, to Mark Gong, who won Best in Show with his black-and-white series, Army Life--there are still a multitude of photography shows that will remain open for a few more weeks (see listings below). And we hear that the display of 260+ photo books at the Artefacto Exhibit Space will reopen soon. SO, DON'T STOP LOOKING AT THOSE PICTURES.
FotoWeek DC Executive Board members Paul Fetters and Irene Owsley
Photograph by Elizabeth Krist
And finally, let's not forget to thank the gang of five who were instrumental in putting together this FotoWeek extravaganza: Theo Adamstein, Lynn Ackerson, Paul Fetters, George Hemphill, and Irene Owsley. We're looking forward to next year.
Stephanie at Bat, Montana, 2005, from the Visions of Paradise exhibit
Photograph by William Albert Allard
FotoWeek is still going on here:
"Visions of Paradise"
National Geographic Contemporary Masters
DATE: 11/5/2008 - 1/2/2009
WHERE: Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts
1632 U Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
Tel: 202.483.8600
Email: gallery@smithfarm.com
www.smithfarm.com/gallery/index.html
Photographers:
- William Albert Allard
- Jodi Cobb
- David Doubilet
- Beverly Joubert
- Michael Nichols
- Paul Nicklen
- Randy Olson
- Joel Sartore
- Michael Yamashita
"Odysseys and Photographs: Masters from the National Geographic Archives"
DATE: 11/12/2008 - 1/4/2009
WHERE: National Geographic Museum
1145 17th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Tel: 202.857.7588
www.ngmuseum.org
Hours:
Open Mondays through Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Museum is closed Dec. 25.
Photographers:
- Tom Abercrombie
- Maynard Owen Williams
- Luis Marden
- Volkmar Wentzel
"Focal Point"
DATE: 11/5/2008 - 1/4/2009
WHERE: National Geographic Museum
1145 17th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Tel: 202.857.7588
www.ngmuseum.org
Hours:
Open Mondays through Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Museum is closed Dec. 25.
Photographers:
- Sam Abell
- Alexandra Avakian
- Reza
"All Roads"
DATE: Through 1/18/09
WHERE: National Geographic courtyard
1145 17th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Tel: 202.857.7588
www.ngmuseum.org
Hours: Daylight hours.
Photographers:
- Alejandro Chaskielberg (Argentina)
- Rena Effendi (Azerbaijan)
- Khaled Hasan (Bangladesh)
- Farzana Wahidy (Afghanistan)
"Whales: From the Depths of the National Geographic Collection"
DATE: 10/12/2008 - 1/18/2009
WHERE: National Geographic Museum
1145 17th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Tel: 202.857.7588
www.ngmuseum.org
Hours: Open Mondays through Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Museum is closed Dec. 25.
13 National Geographic photographers, including Flip Nicklin, Paul Nicklen, Jason Edwards, David Doubilet, Michael Nichols, Brian Skerry, Tim Laman, Al Giddings, and Wolcott Henry.
-------------------------"Role Models: Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography"
DATE: 10/17/2008 - 1/25/2009
WHERE: National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20005
Tel: 202.783.7373
www.nmwa.org
Hours: Monday - Saturday 10:00AM to 5:00PM, Sunday 12:00PM to 5:00PM
Photographs by Eleanor Antin, Anna Gaskell, Nan Goldin, Nikki S. Lee, Sally Mann, Mary Ellen Mark, Catherine Opie, Cindy Sherman and Carrie Mae Weems.
-------------------------"Scale Matters: Photographs from the Joseph and Charlotte Lichtenberg Collection"
DATE: 11/1/2008 - 2/1/2009
WHERE: The Phillips Collection
1600 21st Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
Tel: 202.387.2151
www.phillipscollection.org
Hours: Tuesday through Friday
Seven large landscape photographs by Lynn Davis and Edward Burtynsky.
-------------------------"Man and Machine" Photography by Ezra Stoller
DATE: 11/1/2008 - 11/30/2008
WHERE: 1050 K Street
1050 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Tel: 202.966.9411
www.1050Kstreet.com
Hours: Office hours
Fifty photographs by Ezra Stoller
-------------------------Lawrence Schiller
DATE: 11/8/2008 - 12/20/2008
WHERE: Adamson Gallery
1515 14th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
Tel: 202.232.0707
www.adamsongallery.com
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday (10:30AM - 5:30PM)
-------------------------"Invasion 68 Prague"
DATE: 11/11/2008 - 12/28/2008
WHERE: American University Museum at the Katzen Art Center
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016
Tel: 202.885.1300
www.american.edu/academic.depts/cas/katzen
Photographs by Josef Koudelka. Co-sponsored by The Embassy of the Czech Republic, Aperture Foundation, and The Katzen Arts Center at American University.
-------------------------DARFUR/DARFUR
DATE: 10/24/2008 - 12/6/2008
WHERE: Civilian Art Projects
406 7th Street, NW
3rd Floor
Washington, DC 20004
Tel: 202.347.0022
www.civilianartprojects.com
A traveling exhibit curated by Leslie Thomas. Photojournalists include Lynsey Addario, Mark Brecke, Helene Caux, Ron Haviv, Paolo Pellegrin, James Nachtwey, Ryan Spencer Reed, and Michal Safdie.
-------------------------"David Levinthal: War"
DATE: 11/14/08 - 1/3/09
WHERE: Conner Contemporary Art
1358-60 Florida Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20002
Tel: 202.588.8750
Email: info@connercontemporary.com
www.connercontemporary.com
"Richard Avedon: Portraits of Power"
DATE: 9/13/2008 - 1/25/2009
WHERE: Corcoran Gallery of Art
Corcoran College of Art + Design
500 17th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
Tel: 202.639.1867
www.corcoran.org
"Wounded Cities"
DATE: 10/18/2008 - 2/17/2009
WHERE: Corcoran Gallery of Art
Corcoran College of Art + Design
500 17th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
Tel: 202.639.1867
www.corcoran.org
Photographs by Leo Rubinfien
-------------------------"Uncommon Beauty"
DATE: 10/3/2008 - 12/13/2008
WHERE: Ellipse Arts Center
4350 Fairfax Drive
Suite 125
Arlington, VA 22203
Tel: 703.228.7710
www.arlingtonarts.org/ellipseartscenter.htm
Hours: Gallery is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays
Presented by Washington Project for the Arts and the Ellipse Arts Center and Juried by Sarah Tanguy. Photographs by Kay Chernush, Mary Coble, Frank Hallam Day, Jason Horowitz, Lucian Perkins and Athena Tacha.
-------------------------"6 notable photographers"
DATE: 11/14/2008 - 1/3/2009
WHERE: Fraser Gallery
7700 Wisconsin Avenue
Suite E
Bethesda, MD 20814
Tel: 301.718.9651
www.thefrasergallery.com
Photographers:
- Danny Conant
- Judith Goodman
- Karen Keating
- Maxwell MacKenzie
- Joyce Tenneson
- Frank Van Riper
"Elena Volkova: Airscapes"
DATE: 11/21/2008 - 12/27/2008
WHERE: Gallery at Flashpoint
916 G Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Tel: 202.315.1310
www.flashpointdc.org
"A Disenchanted Playroom"
DATE: 11/6/2008 - 1/2/2009
WHERE: Goethe-Institut Washington
812 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Tel: 202.289.1200
Email: info@washington.goethe.org
www.goethe.de/ins/us/was/enindex.htm
Photographs by Wolfram Hahn
-------------------------"Faux/Real"
DATE: 11/11/2008 - 12/6/2008
WHERE: Heineman Myers Contemporary Art
4728 Hampden Lane
Bethesda, MD 20814
Tel: 301.951.7900
www.heinemanmyers.com
Photographers: Jeanette May and Brady Robinson
-------------------------"Absolutely Gorgeous"
DATE: 11/11/2008 - 12/6/2008
WHERE: Heineman Myers Contemporary Art
4728 Hampden Lane
Bethesda, MD 20814
Tel: 301.951.7900
www.heinemanmyers.com
Color photography by David Seymour "Chim" from his series of personalities, such as Sophia Loren, Audrey Hepburn, Kirk Douglas, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Collins, Richard Avedon, Pablo Picasso, Fred Astaire and Givenchy.
-------------------------"Kendall Messick: The Projectionist and Hiroshi Sugimoto: Drive-in Theaters and Portraits"
DATE: 11/8/2008 - 12/20/2008
WHERE: HEMPHILL
1515 14th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
Tel: 202.234.5601
www.hemphillfinearts.com
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10:00AM - 5:00PM
-------------------------"Fragile"
DATE: 11/15/2008 - 1/31/2009
WHERE: Honfleur Gallery
1241 Good Hope Road, SE
Washington, DC 20020
Tel: 202.580.5972
www.honfleurgallery.com
Photography and artworks by John K. Lawson
-------------------------"Known Unknowns"
DATE: 11/7/2008 - 12/20/2008
WHERE: IA&A Hillyer Art Space
9 Hillyer Court, NW
Washington, DC 20008
Tel: 202.338.0680
www.artsandartists.org
Washington Project for the Arts presents: "Known Unknowns", curated by Amanda Maddox, Assistant Curator of Photography, Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Photographs By:
- Avi Gupta
- Kate MacDonnell
- Sandra Rottman
- Christopher Saah
"Kahn & Selesnick, Gina Brocker, Marla Rutherford and Kerry Skarbakka"
DATE: 10/18/2008 - 12/6/2008
WHERE: Irvine Contemporary
1412 14th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
Hours: Open Tuesday thru Saturday (11:00AM - 6:00PM)
-------------------------"20/40" Photographs by 20 Washington-area photographers
DATE: 9/13/2008 - 11/29/2008
WHERE: Kathleen Ewing
1767 P Street, NW
Second Floor
Washington, DC 20036
Tel: 202.328.0955
40 photographs by 20 Washington-area photographers
-------------------------"Women by Women"
DATE: 9/25/2008 - 1/3/2009WHERE: Sewall-Belmont House and Museum
144 Constitution Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20002
Tel: 202.546.1210
www.sewallbelmont.org
Hours: Tue-Friday 11-3 and sat 12-4
Closed sun and mon and other hours by appointment
A Juried Exhibition of the Women Photojournalists of Washington (WPOW). Photographers include Juana Arias, Andrea Bruce, Gabriela Bulisova, Masie Crow, Sarah Evans, Katie Falkenberg, Michelle Frankfurter, Katherine Frey, Alexis C. Glenn, Melissa Golden, Abby Greenawalt, Katja Heinemann, Jessica Koscielniak-Woolf,Monica Lopossay, Sarah Nix, Yanina Manolova, Melina Mara, Jacquelyn Martin, Nicole Martyn, Nancy Pastor, Susana Raab, Astrid Riecken, Amy Toensing and Sarah L. Voisin.
-------------------------"Georgia O'Keefe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities"
DATE: 9/26/2008 - 1/4/2009
WHERE: Smithsonian American Art Museum
8th and F Streets, NW
Washington, DC 20002
Tel: 202.633.1000
Eemail: SAAMinfo@si.edu
americanart.si.edu/
"Images from NASA - photos by Bill Ingalls" and "Big Blue Marble: A Metro Area Camera Club Exhibit"
DATE: 11/14/2008 - 12/10/2008
WHERE: Washington School of Photography
4850 Rugby Avenue
Bethesda, MD 20814
Tel: 301.654.1998
www.wsp-photo.com
Photographer: Bill Ingalls, NASA lead photographer
-------------------------"Lenscape"
DATE: 11/14/2008 - 11/30/2008
WHERE: Zenith Gallery
413 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20004
Tel: 202.783.2963
Email: art@zenithgallery.com
www.zenithgallery.com
Photographs by David Glick and Colin Winterbottom.
-------------------------"My America"
DATE: 11/17/2008 - 11/30/2008
WHERE: Zone Zero, LLC
1000 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Suite 300
Washington, DC 20007
Tel: 202.333.4450
www.zonezerophoto.com
Photographs by Chris Morris of Agency VIIM
-------------------------"Sublime Symmetries"
DATE: 11/13/2008 - 1/30/2009
WHERE: Embassy of Australia
1601 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Tel: 202.797.3000
Photographs by David Stephenson
-------------------------"Wide Asleep by Michael Borek"
DATE: 11/6/2008 - 12/15/2008
WHERE: Embassy of the Czech Republic
3900 Spring of Freedom Street, NW
Washington, DC 20008
Tel: 202.274.9105
Hours: 9-5 (Monday through Thursday), 9-3 (Friday)
Please call 202.274.9105 to schedule an appointment.
"Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968" and "After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy"
DATE: Through 3/9/2009
WHERE: International Gallery of the S. Dillon Ripley Center
1100 Jefferson Dr. SW
Washington, DC 20024
Tel: 202-633-1000
www.si.edu/visit/whatsnew/Ripley.asp.
Hours: Daily 10 am-5:30 pm (closed Dec. 25)
-------------------------"Oceans, Rivers and Skies: Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, and Alfred Stieglitz"
DATE: 10/12/08 - 3/15/09
WHERE: National Gallery of Art, West Building
Sixth Street and Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20565
Tel: 202.737.4215
www.nga.gov/exhibitions/oceansinfo.shtm
Hours: Daily 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday 11 am to 6 pm
