The new Afterimage Web Editor will provide technical assistance as well as content (news stories, exhibition reviews and more) in collaboration with the Editors. The position is 5/hours per week, 48 weeks per year, at $9.50 per hour. The ideal candidate would have art journalism/critical writing experience as well as Web skills and be available for in-person meetings in the Rochester, New York office, with the Editorial staff on a monthly basis. Please submit a resume and cover letter, by email, to Karen vanMeenen, Editor, at afterimageeditor@yahoo.com by 12noon EST on July 31. The position is to start September 1, 2009.
Photographer Robert Adams has won the 2009 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography, organizers announced on Wednesday, April 15. Adams, 71, accepted the award in San Francisco on Tuesday, April 14. He was given 500,000 kronor (equivalent to $60,000) a diploma, and a gold medal at the joint news conference and awards ceremony.
“Robert Adams is one of the most important and influential photographers of the last forty years. During that time he has worked almost exclusively in the American West, and, as photography has altered and fragmented, he has refined and reaffirmed its inherent language, adapting the legacies of nineteenth century and modernist photography to his own very singular purpose,” cited the Foundation on its Web site.
Adams has carefully documented the impact of human activity on the land—not to condemn it but to find in its often tragic overtones something of what he has called the “persistent beauty” in the way the earth adapts and heals itself. Adams’s works include The New West and New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape.
An exhibition of Adams’ photographs will open on Nov. 6 at the Foundation’s
exhibition hall at the Göteborg Museum of Art.
The Hasselblad Foundation was established in 1979 under the terms of the last will and testament of Dr. Victor Hasselblad and his wife Erna. The purpose of the Foundation is to promote scientific education and research in the natural sciences and photography.
by Kevin Fuller
by Kevin Fuller
The Annenberg Foundation, one of the nation’s largest privately owned foundations, recently opened a new community space in Los Angeles dedicated to both digital images and print photography.
The Annenberg Space for Photography opened its doors on March 27 with the exhibition “L8S ANG3LES” (which will be reviewed in the July/August issue of Afterimage). The new 10,000 square foot facility, located on the former site of the Shubert Theatre, features a state-of-the-art digital projection gallery along with a traditional print exhibit area.
“Photography is one of the most accessible and personal forms of art. We are thrilled about creating a space completely dedicated to it which will compliment the landscape of existing cultural institutions nationally and in Los Angeles,” said Vice President and Trustee, Wallis Annenberg, in a statement on the Foundation’s Web site.
General admission to the Annenberg Space for Photography is free and will present images focused on the human condition as an expression of the philanthropic work of the Foundation and its Trustees. Guest curators will be invited to work directly with the Trustees throughout the year. Along with featured exhibits, which will change several times a year, there will also be weekly shows. The opening exhibit is a group show including eight Los Angeles-based photographers in the genres of fine art, architecture, documentary, fashion, photojournalism, and celebrity portraits.
“We see the creation of the Annenberg Space for Photography as a service to the community where visitors can see the world through a different lens and leave feeling motivated to make positive change,” added Annenberg in his statement.
For more information visit www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org.
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