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Group Show 70: Under the Sun and the Moon Group Show 69: Photo for Non-Majors (part 2) Group Show 69: Photo for Non-Majors (part 1) Group Show 68: Four Degrees Group Show 67: Embracing Stillness Group Show 66: La Frontera Group Show 65: Two Way Lens Group Show 64: Tropes Gone Wild Group Show 63: Love, Actually Group Show 62: 100% Fun Group Show 61: Loss Group Show 60: Winter Pictures Group Show 59: Numerology Group Show 58: On Death Group Show 57: New Psychedelics Group Show 56: Source Material Group Show 55: Year in Reverse Group show 54: Seeing Sound Group Show 53: On Beauty Group Show 52: Alternative Facts Group Show 51: Future Isms Group Show 50: 'Roid Rage Group Show 48: Winter Pictures Group Show 47: Space Jamz group show 46: F*cked Up group show 45: New Jack City group show 44: Radical Color group show 43: TMWT group show 42: Occultisms group show 41: New Cats in Art Photography group show 40: #Latergram group show 39: Tough Turf P. 2/2 group show 39: Tough Turf P. 1/2

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Group Show 70: Under the Sun and the Moon Group Show 69: Photo for Non-Majors (part 2) Group Show 69: Photo for Non-Majors (part 1) Group Show 68: Four Degrees Group Show 67: Embracing Stillness Group Show 66: La Frontera Group Show 65: Two Way Lens Group Show 64: Tropes Gone Wild Group Show 63: Love, Actually Group Show 62: 100% Fun Group Show 61: Loss Group Show 60: Winter Pictures Group Show 59: Numerology Group Show 58: On Death Group Show 57: New Psychedelics Group Show 56: Source Material Group Show 55: Year in Reverse Group show 54: Seeing Sound Group Show 53: On Beauty Group Show 52: Alternative Facts Group Show 51: Future Isms Group Show 50: 'Roid Rage Group Show 48: Winter Pictures Group Show 47: Space Jamz group show 46: F*cked Up group show 45: New Jack City group show 44: Radical Color group show 43: TMWT group show 42: Occultisms group show 41: New Cats in Art Photography group show 40: #Latergram group show 39: Tough Turf P. 2/2 group show 39: Tough Turf P. 1/2
Our Lady of Guadalupe © Amanda Lopez. From DiversifyPhoto’s Print Relief Sale.

Our Lady of Guadalupe © Amanda Lopez. From DiversifyPhoto’s Print Relief Sale.

A Running List of Print Sale Fundraisers Benefiting COVID-19 Relief

Over the past few weeks, we’ve received many requests to help spread the word about print fundraisers for COVID-19 relief. Some aim to help artists make ends meet as work dries up. Others specifically benefit medical workers and others at the front lines. We want to support them all. Below is an ongoing list of print sales for COVID-19 relief that caught our eye. We’ve organized these into two sections:

1) Fundraisers from organizations: these include prints from multiple artists.

2) Fundraisers organized by individual artists - some are raising money to support specific organizations; others to support these artists directly during unemployment / limited work.

We look at this as a continuously refreshing resource and plan to update as new leads come in. If we missed you or you have something in the works, please get in touch with a link to the print sale and a few words about your benefit project. Most of these sales are photography-based, but some include other media as well.

In health, warmth, and solidarity,

Humble Arts Foundation

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PostedApril 13, 2020
AuthorEditors
CategoriesArt News, Artists
TagsCovid-19 Benefit Print Sales, print fundraiser, contemporary art, art for covid-19, covid-19 fundraiser
Oakland, 2020 © Nicole White  (After Kenneth Josephson, Chicago 1964)

Oakland, 2020 © Nicole White
(After Kenneth Josephson, Chicago 1964)

Famous Photographs Remade in Toilet Paper

At the end of March, with the shelter in place plan in full effect, Bay Area photographers Jenny Sampson, Colleen Mullins, Nicole White, and Christy McDonald embarked on a creative approach to self-quarantining. They started making daily homages to their favorite photographs – in toilet paper.

“Thinking about the seriousness of the moment combined with the surreal quality of what was occurring around us,” the photographers say in their statement, “we thought that we should make images to occupy our time and give us something to work on while in our homes."

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PostedApril 8, 2020
AuthorJon Feinstein
Tagsart during Covid19, Colleen Mullins, Nicole White, Jenny Sampson, photo history, appropriation, photo appropriation
© Lonnie Graham

© Lonnie Graham

Artists Reflect on the Sudden Closing of San Francisco Art Institute

On Monday, March 23, San Francisco Art Institute announced that it will close its doors, possibly for good.

The institution home to the nation’s first fine art photography program, founded by Ansel Adams in 1945 and led by a luminary faculty cohort including Dorothea Lange, Imogene Cunningham, Minor White, Lisette Model, and Edward Weston.

If SFAI remains shuttered, it will be a loss to art communities both locally and across the globe. Humble’s senior editor Roula Seikaly asked SFAI alumni and instructors to share their thoughts on the time they spent on the North Beach campus, and why the school and the people they encountered there were important to their personal and creative growth.

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PostedApril 6, 2020
AuthorRoula Seikaly
CategoriesArtists, Galleries
TagsSF Art Institute, San Francisco Art Institute, Lonnie Graham, Rafael Soldi, Eirik Johnson, Meghann Riepenhoff, Marcela Pardo Ariza, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Janet Delaney
© Ben Alper - from his series An Index of Walking

© Ben Alper - from his series An Index of Walking

Open Call - Group Show #65 – Easy Spirit: New Photography On Walking

A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.” - Rebecca Solnit, from Wanderlust: A History of Walking.

There is something therapeutic about going on walks and taking pictures – sometimes aimless, sometimes with calculated, project-based parameters in mind. It's a road trip on foot. It's about pause, introspection, mindfulness, and maybe some visual mile-marking.

In today's socially distant, quarantined world, walking (safely!) can be a form of personal liberation – one of the few things we can do outside. Editors note: we acknowledge that these statements about “liberation” may be dependent on certain forms of privilege — we hope to reflect this respectfully in the final show.

For Humble's next online exhibition, we'd like to see your images related to walking.
Interpret this however you like. This will be co-curated by Bryan Formhals and Humble's co-founder Jon Feinstein, with curatorial advisement from Humble’s senior editor and curatorial advisor Roula Seikaly.

Deadline: May 20th, 2020

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PostedApril 2, 2020
AuthorEditors
CategoriesOpen Call, Exhibitions
TagsOpen Call, no fee open call, photography about walking, wanderlust, wanderlustography, photography inspired by Rebecca Solnit, Bryan Formhals, Jon Feinstein, Ben Alper
Image courtesy of the collection of Robert E. Jackson

Image courtesy of the collection of Robert E. Jackson

Social Distancing in Vintage Snapshots

Robert E. Jackson finds metaphors for social distance in his collection of vernacular photography.

Social distancing is undoubtedly the word of the moment. Right now, more than 3.5 million photos on Instagram are hashtagged #socialdistancing, and nearly every photography organization has an open call related to the theme. We can't escape it.

As you might expect, it's been on the mind of snapshot collector, Robert E. Jackson. Over the past few weeks, Jackson culled his collection of over 14,000 vernacular photographs, looking for images that signal social distance.

“While snapshots deal so much with intimacy,” says Jackson, “I thought I would search my collection for photos which seem to deal with loneliness and disconnection. Not people by themselves, but people interacting in an odd way with other people.”

Although we have no knowledge of the backstory behind any of these images, looking at them now might give some clarity and humor to what we are all experiencing.

all images appear courtesy of the collection of Robert E. Jackson

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PostedMarch 30, 2020
AuthorJon Feinstein
CategoriesGalleries, Vernacular Photography
Tagssocial distancing in photography, Robert E. Jackson, vernacular photographs, snapshots, vintage photographs, art during Covid19
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