Tonight: Launch party for SMart Book 2011

. We’re hosting a reception tonight to celebrate the publication of our latest limited-edition photo annual, SMart Book 2011. Last year’s volume was a split run, with half of the books featuring a cover by Hans Gissinger and the other half a photo by Craig Cutler. This year, we’re three times a lady, with a [...]

Stockland Martel goes to London for Nadav Kander’s exhibition opening at Flowers gallery (photos)

. Last Thursday, “Yangtze—The Long River,” an exhibition featuring previously unseen photographs from Nadav Kander’s Prix Pictet–winning series, opened at Flowers gallery in London. The show, which will be on view through November 13, coincides with the publication of a comprehensive monograph issued by German book publisher Hatje Cantz. Tomorrow, Flowers will be hosting a [...]

Kwaku Alston’s “Life”

. Kwaku has a handful of personal projects going, like “Volkslivin”… .   . …“Horizon Court”…   . …and his portrait series “On White”…   . . What I like about his project “Life,” though, is that it’s not just personal but autobiographical. It’s Kwaku photographing his neighbors, his family, people’s he’s worked with, even [...]

Last day for Cartier-Bresson at the Museum of Modern Art

If you live in New York and haven’t seen the brilliant “Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century” at the Museum of Modern Art, get yourself over there today before 5:30 pm—it’s the last day of the show. Bill and Maureen and I went to see the exhibition last month. Here’s a little iPhone snap I took [...]

Scenes from Le Book Connections

. Le Book Connections kicked off yesterday. . . Here’s Maureen at our booth… . . And Simon Horobin, Dana Eudy, and Bill… . . Some close-up views of the booth… . . In addition to their print portfolios, we’re also showing our photographers’ work via iPad. We’ve set it up so you can view [...]

An interview with Le Book’s Michael Kazam

With Le Book Connections—a trade show for “all professionals who commission talent”—coming up in New York next week, it seemed like a good time to check in with Michael Kazam, the international development director of Le Book (which he cofounded with Veronique Kolasa). Does he see signs of hope after a couple of lean years [...]

Maureen Martel: “If I don’t know who you are by looking at your portfolio, then your book is not doing its job.”

Ali Dent, who lives in Australia and writes the blog A Sydney Art Buyer, contacted me a while back about the Stockland Martel blog, which turned into an occasional email correspondence, which turned into her doing a sort of free-ranging email interview with Maureen. The interview just went live on Ali’s blog. A couple of [...]

Opening-night photos: Nadav Kander exhibitions in Berlin

Last week, Bill and Maureen went to Berlin for the opening of two exhibitions of Nadav’s work, at the Camera Work gallery and at Museum the Kennedys (the latter displayed “Obama’s People” with Richard Avedon’s “The Family”). . “For many years, Kander’s photographs have been an integral part of distinguished collections such as those of [...]

Doug Menuez: “Ignore your creative needs at your peril”

The new issue of PDNedu features an interview with Doug Menuez in which the award-winning photographer talks about his 30-plus-year career, from his photojournalistic beginnings as an intern at The Washington Post (he describes, for example, how he managed to get a shot of Mother Teresa that was different from what his press-corps peers were [...]

Nadav Kander and Richard Avedon exhibition in Berlin

The Camera Work photo gallery, located in Berlin and named after Alfred Stieglitz’s pioneering magazine, represents work by some of the world’s most iconic photographers—Man Ray, Irving Penn, and Diane Arbus, among them. So we’re thrilled to report that on March 20, the gallery will present an exhibition featuring photographs by our own Nadav Kander. [...]

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