Things to do the rest of the week: NYC, Akron & London

Its a busy night tonight in NYC and here's what tickles our fancy. We have 3 of the 5 boroughs covered but if none of this does it for you there's always Akron.

Thursday March 6


Sarah Lawrence College Presents: Joshua Lutz - 'Meadowlands'

Opening reception 5.00 - 6.30pm

The Barbara Walters Gallery
Heimbold Visual Art Center
915 Kimball Ave
Bronxville, NY



Thomas Holton: The Lams of Ludlow Street

Opening reception: 6.00 - 8.00pm
Sasha Wolf Gallery
10 Leonard Street bet West Broadway & Hudson
Tribeca, NYC



Ten Series - Photographs by Matthew Sleeth and In Almost Every Picture Collected and edited by Erik Kessels

Opening Reception: 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Aperture Gallery

547 West 27th Street bet 10t & 11th ave
NYC

These concurrent exhibitions combine two very different approaches to photography.

Ten Series and In Almost Every Picture transform seemingly ordinary scenes into something extraordinary, something that changes our perception of the world around us, especially our world in pictures. For both series, travel plays a role; these images underline two aspects of the photographic impulse—the creative and the commemorative—that often surface when we experience a new location that we want to preserve and share with others. Images that seem commonplace at first take on new weight and emotional charge as we isolate and re-examine them within the exhibition context.

Looking at Kessels’s and Sleeth’s work, we can’t escape an overwhelming feeling of déjà vu, that we’ve seen these pictures before or even made some that look similar. Today, almost everyone uses the camera to capture life in pictures; we take snapshots to create personal connections and to memorialize those connections. Both Ten Series and In Almost Every Picture reference the snapshot and, in so doing, engage the very nature of the photograph.

Both Ten Series and In Almost Every Picture explore the tension between the perceived realism offered by photography and the simultaneous realization that we can never really know anything concrete through the photographic image. In Ten Series and In Almost Every Picture, the everyday has never looked so ordinary or so strange. Courtesy Aperture

Hamburger Eyes - Inside Burgerworld

Exhibition & Reception

The Powerhouse Arena

37 Main Street
Dumbo, NY

If you are a 'Hamburger Eyes' virgin like myself then check out Michael David Murphy's educational post here.



Lecture: Photobiography with Martin Parr

6.30pm - free

Akron Art Museum
One South High
Akron, Ohio


Friday March 7


Tod Papageorge - The Making of a Photographer

7.00pm - £ 7.50

Victoria & Albert Museum

South Kensington
London, England

Acclaimed photographer Tod Papageorge has been head of photography at Yale School of Art since 1979 and is a pivotal figure in the development of an elegant, American, street-savvy style. Coinciding with an exhibition at the Michael Hoppen Gallery, he talks about his work and that of friends and contemporaries.

To learn more about Tod go here.