A look at some of the exhibits going on as part of Atlanta Celebrates Photography
By Brian Steel
Atlanta Celebrates Photography is a nonprofit organization that works to increase an appreciation of photography in the Atlanta art community. Every October they host a festival that invites people to view and share photography. The festival has all kinds of photography from commercial to fine art and has work from photographers ranging from amateur to professionals. It also serves to recognize the achievements of Atlanta photographers that are having great success.
Christopher Bucklow
Jackson Fine Art | 3115 East Shadowlawn Ave.
Open Tuesday-Saturday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Christopher Bucklow is widely known for the photographic silhouettes he makes using a pinhole camera. In Europe, Bucklow is also known for the ongoing series of paintings that stem from those photographs. Currently working in both media, Bucklow is exhibiting new photographs at Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta, and recent paintings at Riflemaker gallery in London.In 2004 Blindspot, New York, published a monograph on his photographs entitled “Guest”, and that same year, The British Museum published a monograph on his paintings (“Christopher Bucklow: If This Be Not I”). Bucklow also exhibits with Artereal gallery in Australia, and Mssohkan Gallery in Japan. He has recently written a book on the iconography of Philip Guston’s late paintings. His work is included in the collections of many museums across the United States.
Suellen Parker
Artist Lecture | Thursday, Oct. 9, 7-8:30 p.m.
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia | 75 Bennett St.
Suellen Parker is a SCAD-Atlanta photography professor and an artist who uses sculpture, photography and digital
manipulation to explore the fragile frontier that divides reality from illusion. The scenes depicted feature characters modeled out of plasteline clay. The sculptures are then photographed and reworked in the computer, along with other photographs to create the final photomontage. These characters are fighting against the contradictions that exist between their ideal self and their physical reality. This begins the vicious circle of hope, desire and delusion. Parker will be presenting and discussing her work at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia on Thursday, Oct. 9, from 7-8:30 p.m.
Danny Clinch
Artist Lecture | Thursday, Oct. 16, 7-8:30 p.m.
SCAD-Atlanta, Event Space 4C
Capturing music (and its makers) photographically requires a unique love for the subject and a passion
for the craft. While trends in music photography can lean towards the over-produced and under-valued, Danny Clinch’s work is about the purity of the music and those who create it. Moments of passion stripped down to the basics, like a well-worn Stratocaster guitar.Danny’s photographs look less like a portfolio of press shots and more like an enormous family photo album. That is, if your family includes Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Johnny Cash. Remarkably, Clinch’s subjects repeatedly reveal their true selves, willingly and without reservation.Danny’s work has appeared in publications such as Vanity Fair, Spin, Rolling Stone, GQ, Esquire, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine, and his photographs have appeared on hundreds of album covers.
