Miller Street #3 will take place in Sydney, Australia on April 25 2008.



Miller Street Soiree began in 2005 when a group of documentary and street photographers got together to hold a one night exhibition of their work in a backyard in Sydney's inner western suburbs. The first event attracted one hundred people and from this Miller Street Soiree #2 was born. The second event, held in 2006, attracted a crowd of over two hundred people and exhibited numerous Australian documentary and street photographers personal work, including Anthony Browell, Dean Sewell, Roger Scott, Tanya Lake, Andrew Quilty, Sean Davey, Jon Reid and Phil Quirk. The reasoning behind Miller Street Soiree was to hold a fun and engaging event that enabled photographers to showcase their new personal work, and existing bodies of work that may or may not have been previously published.



To see participating artists go to:



http://www.pidgin.com.au/content.html?page=5

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Stryker's America, a new documentary by Laurence Levin and Justin Schauble, is the featured, cover selection on the 2008 Films for the Humanities & Sciences Spring Catalog (http://www.films.com).

Stryker's America creatively weaves the tale of a small "New Deal" program within the Department of Agriculture as it single-handedly recorded the iconic images of the national tragedy today known as "The Great Depression." Roy Emerson Stryker was the unlikely leader of the History Division of the depression era FSA. Not a photographer himself, Stryker recruited and directed a passionate and diverse group of photographers who traveled America and documented the ongoing economic tragedy.

Stryker was charged with providing dramatic and hard-hitting photographic evidence which illustrated the level of extreme suffering then being experienced to the U.S. populace and to Congress. Stryker's product exceeded his challenge, kick-started the careers of some of the 20th Century's most celebrated photographers, and re-defined documentary photography as we know it today. The images from this collection include, Dorothea Lange"s "Migrant Mother," Arthur Rothstein's "Dust Bowl" and Gordon Park's "American Gothic."

Interviews, archival footage, and still photographs tell how one man's passion changed the lives of thousands. Featured are interviews with Beverly Brannan, Photography Curator, Library of Congress, Alan Fern, retired Director of the National Portrait Gallery, and Peter Kuznick, American University History Professor.

"Brilliant documentary filmmaking," said Frank Van Riper of the Washington Post. "Levin and Schauble offer a warts-and-all look at Stryker and his cadre of young photographers and at a government program (begun as propaganda) blossomed into an honest look at America between the two World Wars."

Films for the Humanities & Sciences is the nation's leading distributor of educational media to libraries and higher education. Julian Chiabella, FHS Acquisitions Manager describes "Stryker's America as illuminating a fascinating period of American history. It is a wonderful supplement to history, photography and government class curriculums."

Stryker's America is available exclusively from Films for the Humanities on their website: http://www.films.com/ 800-257-5126


For more information contact:
Larry Levin
larrylevin@verizon.net
202-333-7898

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Front page photo in the Bogota Bulletin Fri.21 -March-2008



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We're proud to announce that a 14 year project has come to fruition. Published by Oxford University Press, our first book A Field Guide to Plants of Costa Rica, by Margaret B. Gargiullo, Barbara L. Magnuson & Larry D. Kimball is now out at your local bookstores, Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble or Oxford University Press, also found online.



If you're planning a trip to Costa Rica and interested in some of the plant species found there, this is the book for you. A Field Guide to Plants of Costa Rica is a must have reference guide for both beginners and expert naturalists. It provides a thorough survey of more than 850 plant species. Each entry is accompanied by color photos and a concise yet detailed description. The plant species are conveniently grouped by the different types of vegetation: palms, tall trees, shrubs, woody vines, herbaceous vines, herbs, grasses and ferns. Along with nearly 1,400 color photographs, the guide also includes an illustrated glossary of plant parts, five maps of Costa Rica, and laminated covers for durability in the field. With so much readily accessible information, this book is essential for exploring Costa Rica's common and conspicuous flora from the plants growing along the roadside to the best natural parks.



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New York-based photographer Bob Kalman has released his fourth book of fine art street portraits entitled, "Face New York." The portraits were made with a 4x5 view camera in lower Manhattan over an 18 month period.



Kalman's previous work has featured portraiture made in the same, large format manner, in Italy, Panama and Nicaragua. Although he shoots with film, he scans the negatives and publishes through Lulu.com, a print-on-demand on-line marketer.



His work is viewable and available for purchase at http://www.robertkalmanweb.com

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Maria Parenteau is just launching her new images from the serie "Birds,Just Birds. Birds,Just Birds is a collection which plays on the imagery of birds representing life situations, dreams and hidden secrets.

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Award winning pro photographer and Greek enthusiast Glenn Steiner presents "In Search of the Real Greece" on the Greek islands of Santorini, Thirasia and Anafi.

The workshop will run from 6/14/08 to 6/20/08.

Workshop attendees shall chase the magical Greek light by day and dance on the volcano's edge by night.

The price of $2200 US includes an individual room in an excellent hotel, continental brunch in a different taverna every day, and all inter island transportation on and within Santorini, pristine Thirasia and rarely visited Anafi.

For more information, visit (http:/Greekislandphotography.com).

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Michel Keck will be showing her latest works this month in the LA Artist's Showcase on view March 24th through March 28th at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles in Suite B261.



The LA Artist’s Showcase features Los Angeles artist’s perspective of LA architecture and icons as well as bold and colorful abstract paintings and mixed media sculptures.

Renowned mixed media artist Michel Keck (The Raw Artist) will be revealing some of her latest emotionally charged abstract and mixed media art paintings. National award winning artist Ted VanCleave’s fine art photography captures the urban landscape of Los Angeles by focusing on the city’s unique style of modern and postmodern industrial architecture.

Internationally collected artist Dave Lefner preserves iconic images from Southern California's past by mastering the lost art of Reduction Linocut, a technique made famous by Picasso in the late 50’s. Lastly, Parisian-born sculptor Pascal Giacomini’s mixed-media sculptures, decorative masks and functional art pieces have been showcased in many prestigious art fairs, and are held in numerous private collections.

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DEBORAH LAND

"ILLUMINATION"



April 5 - May 3

OPENING RECEPTION: APRIL 5 4:00-6:00 PM



Schotland Gallery

123 Main Street

Flemington, NJ



908 334 0549

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For the March 2008 cover of National Geographic Adventure, Jen Judge shoots Lis Lilja, yoga practitioner and owner of Moab Yoga on the Rocks, stretching into a backbend to greet the warm morning sun rising in Canyonlands National Park, just outside of Moab, Utah. The sunrise illuminates the underside of Mesa Arch.

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HI all, Not really much of a news story but I was pretty happy to have a photo of mine as the "photo of the week" at Calumet photography, which is a great retail and online business. I attached a copy of the print. The store and photo are located at calumetphoto.com

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During the next 4 years my photographs from the series "Castellers" will be on a traveling exhibition of 11 cities in Spain . The traveling exhibition "Memories dels Castellers de Catalunya" will open June 21, 2008 at the Sala d'exposicions Sant Roc - Museu de Valls in Tarragona.



See photographs at http://www.mapeandrews.com/gallery.html?gallery=Castellers



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Artist John Kascht talks about his caricature of John McCain in an online video presentation on WashingtonPost.com:



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2008/01/29/VI2008012901274.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

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The world wide web is just exactly that. I recieved a telephone call from Wales, Great Britton, and was so pleased that the person in Wales had viewed my website and we were in the location for their wedding, so she booked their wedding right then. The wedding was a success and we shipped the album to them.



The world is smaller all the time and thanks to the power of the web, we are a part of it.

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WWW.WOMEN.

A show about women by women organized by Julie Oakes of Headbones, the Drawers in Toronto, Canada.

The opening is February 16, 2008 and will feature 12 pieces by Donna Cleary as well as Louis Bourgeous, Judy Chicago, Carolee Schneemann, Aleks Bartosik, Guerrilla Girls, Donna Kriekle, Julie Oakes, Allyson Mitchell, ,Robin Tewes, Betty Tompkins, and Monika Weiss.

Julie Oakes describes the exhibition: "This exhibition of works on paper is curated by a woman who has looked towards other women and applauded their efforts to maintain their place and dignity of gender in a profession traditionally the domain of men. The work in this exhibition exemplifies the fact that women have staked a self conscious claim within this nourishing field of dreams and in doing so broken ground that grew a different, female form of artistic avatar. Often political in approach, women have used their bodies, their intuition, their ability to nurture and multi-task and their grand operatic voices to shatter many a glass tower. Int his Valentine month, WWW.WOMEN follows on the day of paper hearts and cliché promises with a spectacular show of solid womanhood.

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