This Sunday I will be giving a private tour of my photography exhibit, Touching The History: Photographs From The Dome Of Hagia Sophia, between 4:00 – 5:00 PM. If you like to be there, just drive to the Eaton Street gate of Providence College and tell the guard you are visiting the Hunt-Cavanagh Art Gallery with me. If the Eaton Street gate is closed, you will have to go through the Huxley Avenue gate and come down to Hunt-Cavanagh. I will be there a little before 4:00 and stay until 5:00 PM.

You are welcome to bring family and friends.

Cemal

Polaroid was (it’s a shame I even refer to the name in the past tense) one of the leading innovators in the photography field. Although most people may associate the name with its trademark instant photography that yielded millions of family snapshots and passport photographs, the company also produced extraordinary materials and equipment used by many major photographers; Ansel Adams, Paul Caponigro, Irving Penn pop in my mind in this context. Recently, a very large and rich Polaroid Collection of photographs have been auctioned by Sotheby’s with many examples of this medium as well as those that Polaroid Corporation collected for the sake of photographic art.

Gallery 4 at Tiverton Four Corners has an exhibit “The Art of Polaroid” featuring a collection of Polaroid photographs. The show will be on display July 31-September 6, 2010 at Gallery 4. Hours are Monday – Saturday 10 AM – 5 PM, Sunday 11 AM – 5 PM.

Richard Avedon’s name has been inextricably tied to fashion photography for many decades. His iconic images of celebrities, ordinary people, towns, villages, objects have been shown in magazines, books, posters, billboards, and many exhibitions.

Now, we get a chance to see his work up close at the Museum Of Fine Arts in Boston. The exhibit, “Avedon Fashion 1944-2000″ will be on display between August 10, 2010 – January 17, 2011 in the Foster Gallery. This is a rare opportunity to see his work, his original photographs at touching distance. It should be an exciting exhibit.

I have just posted on my site the announcement of my upcoming exhibit in September-October. Note the opening reception on September 16, 2010, it will be great if you can make it. If you plan to come to the opening reception please RSVP by clicking on this e-mail link.

Ted and Louise Haley will exhibit their prints from 2 to 31 November 2009 at the

Hope Library
Rt 116
Hope Village, Scituate, RI .

Sandra Gaumont will exhibit her prints in “NATURE VIEW” opening  1 November through December 2009, at the

Audubon Environmental Education Center
1401 Hope Street
Bristol, RI

Through Four Pairs of Eyes

The Newport Arts Museum presents “Focus on Four,” an exhibit of four American photographers who worked in Rhode Island at different times between 1899 and the 1970s. The show highlights the photographers’ varying approaches to the medium. During the summers of 1899 and 1903, Gertrude Käsebier (1852-1934) spent the season in a rural part of Newport. Her photographs contributed to her recognition as the most important woman of the pictorialist movement. Lewis Hine (1874-1940) worked in Rhode Island briefly in 1909 and in 1912 with the National Child Labor Committee and the Consumers’ League of Rhode Island. He photographed child labor as well as the conditions in New England textile mills. Charlotte Estey’s three-part series for the Providence Journal’s Rhode Islander about the South Main Street community offers a window into the Providence of 1952. Aaron Siskind, an abstract photographer, came to Rhode Island School of Design in 1971 and secured his position as one of the 20th-century’s most influential photographers.
LOCATION: Newport Art Museum, 76 Bellevue Ave., Newport. Friday, Oct. 30, 5 to 7 p.m. reception. Show continues through Janurary 18. $10 nonmembers; free for members; to register for the reception, call (401) 848-8200, ext. 109.

www.newportartmuseum.org