DOG DAYS OF SUMMER

Posted on 2024-07-22

It’s what you’ve been waiting for, Carmel! A dog show! Stop by the gallery in August to see images by some of your favorite photographers, both legendary and local. We’ve even got a picture of your favorite dog lover, Doris Day, with her poodle Smudgie! What more could you want? Dog portraits sessions? We’ve got those too. Don’t miss your chance to have your dog’s portrait taken by one of California’s premier pet photographers, Ellen Shershow! Reserve your custom dog photography session at Ellen’s Pop-up Pet Studio on Thursday August 1st & Friday August 2nd, 2024.

Opposite – ​New York City, 1974, Elliott Erwitt

Exhibition runs through to September 3rd, 2024

The Center for Photographic Art (CFPA)
San Carlos and 9th
Carmel
CA 93921

www.photography.org

  

FRED W. MCDARRAH – PRIDE & PROTEST

Posted on 2024-07-15

Pride and Protest represents a view of gay cultural life and the gay rights movement in New York City, from the period before the 1969 Stonewall Uprising and continuing through activist protests around the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. Longtime Greenwich Village photographer Fred W. McDarrah (1926–2007) was the first picture editor and staff photographer for the legendary New York City newspaper The Village Voice. His book The Artist’s World in Pictures, coauthored with Thomas B. Hess, documents the New York art world during the late 1950s. The earliest of the exhibition’s 61 works are portraits of renowned poets Frank O’Hara in 1959, and W.H. Auden in 1966. One of McDarrah’s most famous images captures the exhilaration and determination of the young rebels who instigated the Stonewall rebellion on June 28, 1969, a turning point in the struggle for gay rights. Included in the exhibition are pictures of protests, marches, and key figures of the gay rights movement in all its contentious and celebratory public display.

Exhibition runs through to September 1st, 2024

The Center for Photography at Woodstock – CPW
474 Boadway
Kingston
NY 12401

cpw.org

  

GARY KRUEGER – DOGS IN CARS

Posted on 2024-07-08

This small thematic group of canine cruisers was culled from Krueger’s impressive archive of vintage, 8×10 inch gelatin silver prints. Using his quick reflexes and chrome-plated Canon F-1 camera, these images, found in the City of Angeles in the 1970s, is a nostalgic series capturing a unique slice of Los Angeles life, and blending the allure of vintage automobiles with the endearing personalities of these four-legged companions.

Opposite – ​Los Angeles, c. 1970

Exhibition runs through to August 31st, 2024

Joseph Bellows Gallery
7661 Girard Avenue
La Jolla
CA 92037

www.josephbellows.com

  

STEVE FITCH – AMERICAN MOTEL SIGNS

Posted on 2024-07-01

This solo exhibition will showcase a selection of color photographs from the artist’s roadside survey of the signage that adorns these traditional, mid-century mom-and-pop lodgings.

Lit by neon and designed with flair, they came to be known as “motels,” a name coined by the owner of the Milestone Mo-Tel (an abbreviation of “motor hotel”) in San Luis Obispo, California, the world’s first motel, which opened in 1925. In their heyday, motels were ubiquitous along American highways and byways, numbering over 60,000 by 1964.

Opposite – Deming, New Mexico, 1992

Exhibition runs through to August 31st, 2024

Joseph Bellows Gallery
7661 Girard Avenue
La Jolla
CA 92037

www.josephbellows.com

  

DANY LYON – THE BIKERIDERS

Posted on 2024-06-24

THE BIKERIDERS explores Lyon’s experience as a member of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club from 1963-1967. In his words it was an “attempt to record and glorify the life of the American bikerider”. Lyon began riding with and documenting the Outlaws at twenty-one years old while an undergraduate student at the University of Chicago. The publication of his seminal book The Bikeriders (1968) introduced a style of documentary photography and reporting that placed him in the forefront of the New Journalism movement in which the photographer is immersed in and participating with the subject being documented. His work tells the story of a subversive motorcycle club and endures as a time capsule of 1960s Americana. His form of New Journalism with its intimacy, transparency, and humanism was radical.

Exhibition runs through to August 31st, 2024

Robert Klein Gallery
38 Newbury Street
Boston
MA 02116

www.robertkleingallery.com

  

THE PLACE WHERE CLOUDS ARE FORMED

Posted on 2024-06-17

The Place Where Clouds Are Formed, a collaborative project initiated in 2018 by Ofelia Zepeda (Tohono O’odham), Gareth Smit, and Martín Zícari will open its fifth installment on April 6, 2024, simultaneously at the University of Arizona Poetry Center and the Center for Creative Photography’s Alice Chaiten Baker Interdisciplinary Gallery. The project features photography made in partnership with the Traditional O’odham Leaders (TOL) and communities from villages in Quitovac, Cu:wĭ I-ge:sk (San Francisquito), and Sonoyta—towns located in Sonora, Mexico—as well as Quitobaquito and the surrounding lands in Southern Arizona. Images and sculptures are in conversation with poems written and recorded in O’odham and English and translated into Spanish.

Opposite – ​Climbing the cross, Quitovac, México, ​2018, Gareth Smit

Exhibition runs through to August 31st, 2024

Center for Creative Photography
1030 N. Olive Road
Tucson
AZ 85721

ccp.arizona.edu