TPI Club Members Christmas Specials

Mitch Epstein : The City

A fascinating visual poem to New York, featuring 85 monochrome and colour photographs that move from still life to street work to portraiture to abstraction with equal mastery, probing the very meaning of contemporary urban life in New York between 1995 and 1999. It shows the city as part invention and part crucible of incongruities. WAS : $125.00 TPI CLUB Christmas special : $35.00 while stocks last

 

From Seeing to Showing : The Making of Twenty Black & White Images

After 30 years as a writer and teacher of photography, Todd uses his own stunning portfolio images to demonstrate how the techniques involved are used to achieve the final picture. Covers camera and darkroom techniques, composition, the Zone System etc. With colour illustrations, diagrams and charts throughout. From the excellent Creative Photography Workshop Series. 115 b&w illustrations.

WAS : $59.95 TPI CLUB Christmas special : $20.00 while stocks last

 

Sam Haskins : Cowboy Kate & Other Stories – Director’s Cut

Haskin’s selective eye has produced a photographic fable, with a synopsis by Desmond Skirrow and b&w photographs. This ‘Director’s Cut’ version is complete with digital restored plates and several never before seen images that Haskins has added to the mix.In a photographic career that has spanned almost fifty years and included many memoriable advertising, editorial and illustrative shoots, Haskins’ greatest love remains his books.

WAS : $85.00 TPI CLUB Christmas special : $60.00 while stocks last

Love Food & Photography?

The Sanpellegrino Cafe Society Competition Awards should satisfy lovers of both photography and Melbourne’s vibrant cafe culture. Now in its 7th year, the competition features images of 35 cafes by Royal Melbourn Institute of Technology (RMIT) students.

The venue for this year’s awards ceremony was the prestigous Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in South Melbourne. Twelve of the images will appear in the 2007 Sanpellegrino Cafe Society Calendar which is distributed to Sanpellegrino trade in Australia.

The winners are as follows:

First Prize : Tre Biccieri at 623 Rathdowne Street, Carlton by Akane Utsunomiya

 Second Prize : Cafe Racer at 248 St Georges Road, Fitzroy by Paulina Hryniewiecka

 Third Prize : Tin Pot Cafe at St Georges Road, Fitzroy by Danny Colls

Exhibition Highlight : Light Sensitive

What : Light Sensitive – Contemporary Australian Photography

When : 7th September – 18 February 2007

Where : NGV Federation Square Melbourne

Light Sensitive : Contemporary Australian Photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund is an important exhibition of work by early and mid – career contemporary Australian photographers. The exhibition features 65 photographs by 38 different artists including:

• Brook Andrew
• Patricia Piccinini
• Simon Cuthbert
• Cherine Fahd
• Rebecca Ann Hobbs
• Simon Obarzanek                                                  
• Selina Ou
• Deboroh Paauwe
• Patrina Hicks.

 (image : Lauren by Patrina Hicks)

Themes covered range from explorations of the ‘uncanny’; portraiture, space, documentary and society. Photography  has undergone remarkable changes throughout its history. This show demonstrates that diversity and evolution will continue to characterise the field.

Book Review : The Shearers

                                                                    

Andrew Chapman’s book The Shearers explores a quintessentially Australian way of life. It is a visual celebration of the men and women who work the sheds in the shearing industry, from the skinniest roustabout to the crankiest cook.  The black and white images were shot in outback New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and South Australia. Time stops in Chapman’s photographs of a way of life, that despite being almost as old as Australia itself, has remained essentially unchanged. The Shearers offers a touching glimpse into rural life and honest portraits of the people who inhabit some of the toughest terrain this country has to offer.

Focus On : Hot Blog

Being relatively new to the blogsphere, The Printed Image is well aware just how difficult it is to maintain a healthy  blog. The crew at http://www.threethousand.com.au/ run a particularly fierce operation dedicated to finding and reviewing  the best of Melbourne’s cultural activity. Bent towards the hidden, the new and the left of centre, Three Thousand is the best way to for punters to keep abreast of all things artsy. The companion blog – http://www.nownow.com.au/ - publishes five new posts per day -  that’s right folks, FIVE. Topics include reviews, editorial pieces and subversive snippets of agitprop.

Our verdict : RSS it nownow!

Exhibition Highlight : The World’s Most Photographed

What: The World’s Most PhotographedWhere: Bendigo Art Gallery

When: 9th December 2006 to 25th March 2007

Despite our fascination with celebrity and the vast array of trashy magazines that perpetuate that fascination, there are few truly enduring images of great – or notorious – people. Curated by Robin Muir, The World’s Most Photographed is a survey of ten public figures. The biggest drawcards have been images of Adolph Hitler and Mahatma Ghandi. It also includes photographs of Queen Victoria and President Kennedy. Muhammad Ali is the only sports person on show while the entertainment world is represented by Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn and James Dean.

Muir carefully avoided including images of Princess Diana as he believes her life, and death, have been heavily exploited by the media. Muir wryly remarks that Kate Moss is the only celebrity that he wishes he had included. Her celebrity status has only been enhanced by paparazzi activity. Despite being photographed in incriminating situations, Moss has escaped relatively unscathed. She has fallen victim to one of the emerging trends in photojournalism – that of the members of the public selling images taken on mobile phone cameras to news agencies.

Book Review : Eighteen

Melbourne photographer Cindy Godden’s first book Eighteen: From Adversity to Hope – Five Photo Essays on Young Australians is a powerful collection of  images exploring issues as diverse as teen pregnancy, domestic violence, drug dependency, homelessness, living with a disability and the problems faced by new refugees. Godden’s vision is acute and considered. She captures that delicate combination of strength and fraility so intrinsic to human dignity. Her subjects lend their faces and stories to the horrifying statistics of economic, physical and psychological distress that are too often overlooked in ‘the lucky country’. Godden’s talent proves just how necessary it is for social documentary photographers to give voice to unheard stories and to stir the consciences of those who view the work.

News Flash

Focus on New Release : Simply Peter Dombrovskis

 Great news for fans of renowned Australian landscape photographer Peter Dombrovskis – West Wind Press are releasing a new book. Simply Peter Dombrovskis is expected to hit the shelves in time for Christmas. The book features sixty of his unique images, beautifully reproduced in full colour on premium grade Real Art paper manufactured from sustainable plantation forests. Dombrovskis is best remembered for his otherworldly images of the Tasmanian wilderness and his committment to preserving Australia’s unique environment.

 Focus on Competitions : Leica Gallery Melbourne Photography Award

The theme of this years Leica Gallery Melbourne Photography Award is “Life in a Changing World”. Entries close on 9th February 2007 so we all have plenty of time to get our entries organised. The competition is open to all photographers however images must have been shot with a 35mm film camera. Finalists will be exhibited at the Leica Gallery Melbourne next year and the winner will receive a Leica M8 with lens. Entry forms can be downloaded from www.leicagallerymelbourne.com.

On Show in November at The Printed Image

SEAN O’NEIL : PHOTOGRAPHS

Where: The Printed Image, 226 Chapel Street, Prahran, Vic.

When: 1st November – 30 November 2006.

 Sean draws his inspiration from the beauty of the natural world: its line, form, colour and texture, and the play of light and shadow. Having a strong affinity with nature since early childhood has allowed him to develop a boundless sense of wonder and an urge to “simply be outside where there’s always something to see and do“.

His other main interest is the artistic female nude. “I’m drawn to the natural beauty of the female form, and the play of light and shadow is of endless fascination. The artistic collaboration between photographer and subject is also a wondrous and exciting experience”

Sean’s aim is to create images that arise through an instinctual and intuitive process, and he generally prefers simplicity over complexity in both image and technique. “I love to use directional and diffused window light for a variety of subjects, so I’m certainly influenced by the Dutch and Flemish painters on that score. I would have to say that these painters along with some of the Impressionists have influenced me greatly, followed by a handful of photographers who mostly shoot film on medium or large format cameras” 

A painterly feel is certainly evident in many of the images Sean creates. Sean has a spontaneous and open-minded approach to his photography, believing that “whatever grabs your attention is worth a second look”