Got 42 Million?from NOTIFBUTWHEN #2 by Brian
"Petters' Polaroid gets the OK to be put up for sale
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Gregory Kishel has given go-ahead approval for the sale of Polaroid Group, one of the few assets of Petters Group Worldwide with tangible value, with bids to open at $42 million."
By DAVID PHELPS, Star Tribune
Tierney Gearon: Explosurefrom Liz Kuball Photography | Blog by Liz
"I’m on a Tierney Gearon kick lately, so I made sure to be at the opening of her solo show, Explosure, last night at ACE Gallery in Beverly Hills. The photographs are double exposures, and everything is done within the camera, no retouching or external manipulation involved. I listened to Tierney explain her process—art comes out of accidents, she said."
It was simply the most amazing show I’ve ever seen—her work is beautiful and dreamy, and it made me want to move into the gallery and just surround myself with her photographs day and night. There’s no way the images online can even begin to show you what they’re like in person, so you owe it to yourself, if you’re anywhere near Los Angeles between now and April, to see it. And if you have no chance of getting here, you can buy a book of the images through the gallery (72 pages, 36 color illustrations, 12 x 9½ inches, $40)."
Also check out Gearon's Mother Project 
Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems in Conversation
from Exposures by Aperture Foundation
"Dawoud Bey’s Interest in Photography and Portraiture from Aperture Foundation on Vimeo. In February 2008, Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems discussed the work from Bey’s acclaimed book and exhibition, Class Pictures, on view at the time at Aperture Gallery.
Class Pictures features Bey’s striking, large-scale color portraits of students at high schools across the United States. Depicting teenagers from a wide economic, social, and ethnic spectrum—and intensely attentive to their poses and gestures—he has created a highly diverse group portrait of a generation that challenges teenage stereotypes. After several stops including New York, Houston, Indianapolis, and Baltimore, this successful exhibition will open at the Milwaukee Museum of Art, April 16, 2009.
In this excerpt from the talk, Dawoud Bey explains how he decided to become a photographer, speaks about his first significant picture as well as his approach to portraiture through his Harlem series.
Watch a longer cut of the talk here."
Images of "Shiny Trains" Make the $$$$$
from PIX Feed by PIXFeed
"Remember that photographer who got arrested for photographing Amtrak trains for their photo contest ? The day after he popped up on Colbert Report, Duane Kerzic got a five-figure settlement. "
*Warning* Graphic and Emotionally Disturbing ContentIntended Consequences: Rwandan Children Born of Rape
from Exposures by Aperture Foundation"During the 1994 genocide, hundreds of thousands of Rwandan women were subjected to massive sexual violence by members of the infamous Hutu militia groups, known as the Interhamwe. Among the most isolated survivors are women who have borne children as a result of those rapes. The number of children born from these atrocities is estimated around 20,000. Due to the stigma of rape and “having a child of the militia,” the women’s communities and few surviving relatives have largely shunned them. Intended Consequences: Rwandan Children Born of Rape brings together Jonathan Torgovnik’s remarkable portraits of these women and children, and their harrowing first-hand testimonies.
The exhibition on view at Aperture Gallery is comprised of thirty-one stunning individual portraits of these women with their children, accompanied by their testimonies—intensely personal accounts of what they have gone through, the daily challenges they continue to face, and their conflicted feelings about raising a child who is a reminder of horrors endured. The testimonies are presented in text panels and multimedia interviews projected in the center of the installation, produced by MediaStorm. The exhibition also features a video interview with Torgovnik.
Come see this powerful exhibition on view starting tomorrow, Friday, February 20, at Aperture Gallery.
Click here to view a special multimedia feature from Intended Consequences.
Aperture’s accompanying book, Intended Consequences will be published worldwide on April 7, 2009, coinciding with the fifteenth anniversary of the genocide and the opening of a satellite exhibition in the lobby of the United Nations."
