Still life photography
Inside Bay Area - I told my parents I wanted to go to photography school in New York. There was no resistance after they gave up on the idea that I would go with my mother in the chauffeured car downtown.” When The Associated Press hired her, AP male photographers
Las Positas brings art to community
Tribune-Chronicle - Cassidy began putting her students’ work out in the community three years ago, and this year the exhibit also includes fine art, photography and interior design. She described it as a “win-win” program. “I think that it’s really a symbiotic
Jury rules in art show
Orlando Sentinel - Weiter; and third place, Carl Sheerin. Photography: first place, April Bauknight; second place, Gary Anderson; and third place, Patty Tuggle. Entries will remain on display until June 1 in the center’s main gallery and lobby, at 2411 E. U.S. Highway
Kodak’s Faraci Gets 15 Percent Pay Hike
Baltimore Sun - ROCHESTER, N.Y. // Eastman Kodak Co. is boosting Philip Faraci’s annual salary by 15 percent to $600,000 from $520,000 to reflect his extra role focused on reducing the photography company’s administrative costs. In March, Kodak established a chief
Village of Rochester Hills takes art gallery outdoors
Detroit Free Press - Village of Rochester Hills will be transformed into an outdoor art gallery on Saturday and next Sunday. Fine Art at the Village of Rochester Hills is a juried art show offering ceramics, glass, painting, drawing, multi media, sculpture, photography
Photographer mom’s life laid bare in documentary
San Francisco Gate - Yet Gearon’s cathartic approach to her photography can be compulsive, and even creepy. In one scene, Gearon talks to a clerk in a store in her mother’s hometown about the older woman’s behavior. The clerk describes how one day he saw Gearon’s
Couple’s glassworks are artistic creations
Detroit Free Press - Offerings will include ceramics, glass, paintings, drawings, multimedia, sculpture, photography, fiber art, wood and jewelry by more than 100 artists from across the United States and Canada. The Marths got into glasswork by taking a few classes at
Kiwanis Club awards $14,000 scholarship
Baltimore Sun - Photo contest // Ellicott City Restoration Foundation Inc. is holding its third amateur photography contest for pictures in the categories of “vintage,” “adult” and “junior,” taken in the Ellicott City Historic District. “Vintage” photos must have
My blog allows for last-minute event notices
Fresno Bee - The project uses digital photography to document 2,000 new Hmong refugees as they arrived in Fresno from Thailand. The final, edited body of photography will be an estimated 10,000 images. After an intermission, a panel of Hmong community leaders and
The First Underwater Photography Meetup Group Is Formed
WebWire - The “Scuba & Underwater Photographers Meetup Group” is the first of its kind to bring together scuba divers who are interested in learning how to take pictures underwater or polishing the skills and techniques they already know. The group is open to
Rolling, rolling, rolling
Baltimore Sun - just meant that I beat the other two guys who finished the race. Like a lot of young riders in the Breaking Away era, I dreamed of racing with the pros, but was soon distracted by college and girls. Eventually cycling became my hobby and photography
Offer variety: Good schools give kids a wide choice of courses along
Detroit Free Press - My sophomore year, I chose to take photography as one of my electives, and I found a talent and passion for it that I never knew existed in me. Of course, offering the courses is not enough. Each class needs to be taught, and not by just anyone. Even
Know Theatre hosts kickoff for Fringe
Cincinnati Enquirer - This Visual Fringe Happy Hour includes complimentary appetizers and Christian Moerlein’s Over-the-Rhine Pale Ale for $1, plus the exhibit Documentary Photography: Art Academy Students in Over-the-Rhine. The exhibit kicks off Visual Fringe and
Planting the seeds for reseeding
Chicago Sun-Times - A firm called PACE, run by Vincent Pace (director of photography for James Cameron ), used the memorable Game 4 of the 2006 playoff series between the Suns and Los Angeles Lakers to test an NBA game and showed the results during All-Star weekend in
101 Snaps
Jamaica Gleaner - The stairs lead away from rooms exposing other artists in film, photography and painting such as Barrington Watson, Oliver Samuels, Dr. Boxer, and media personnel such as Oliver Clarke. Upstairs, two noted religious figures, Fr. Richard Albert and Rev