Okra Pattern by Patricia Bernstein

Exploring Nature: Muffin Bernstein and Pam Kelly Sills

November 27, 2011 – January 30, 2012
Opening: Thursday Dec. 1, 5-7pm

The White Camellia
3937 Magazine Street
New Orleans, LA 70115
504-875-4170
Hours: Tue-Sat 11am-5:30pm

Mother and Daughter explore nature through photography and painting.

Lady Bartender by Diane Arbus

Residents and Visitors:
Twentieth-Century Photographs of Louisiana

October 2, 2010 – February 1, 2011

New Orleans Museum of Art
1 Collins Diboll Circle, City Park
New Orleans, LA 70179
504-658-4100
Hours: Wed 12-8; Thur-Sun 10-5
Curator’s Talk: Wednesday, Dec 1, 6-8pm

Residents and Visitors: Twentieth-Century Photographs of Louisiana is the eighth collaborative exhibition drawn from the collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) and The Historic New Orleans Collection (THNOC), and the first to be based solely on institutional photographic holdings. Curators for this exhibition are E. John Bullard (NOMA), and John H. Lawrence and Jude Solomon (THNOC).

With over one hundred examples by eighty-two photographers on view, the exhibition offers not only glimpses of Louisiana and its people throughout the twentieth century—primarily in and around New Orleans—but also hints at the depth and breadth of each museum’s photography collection. The premise for the exhibition, photographs made by those who live or lived in Louisiana for their professional lives and those made by men and women just passing through, might seem to portend pictures splitting along certain lines. One might wonder how those who spend relative moments of time in a place hope to make pictures as thoughtful as those photographers steeped for decades in the culture, the architecture, the humidity of Louisiana. A short answer might be that the visitors’ pictures are meaningful and thoughtful in ways that suit photographers rather than an art-viewing public, or the specifics of geography. The inability to offer a neatly packaged answer is part of the question’s mystery and attraction, and central to this exhibition.

The exhibition includes works by Edward Weston, Diane Arbus, Clarence John Laughlin, Michael P. Smith, A. J. Meek, Ralston Crawford, Wallace Merritt, Richard Misrach, Michael A. Smith, William Greiner, Allen Hess, Charles Franck and Ernest J. Bellocq, among others.

Join John Lawrence, Director of Museum Programs at the Historic New Orleans Collection (HNOC), for a guided tour of Residents and Visitors: 20th-Century Photographs of Louisiana, on Wednesday Dec 1, beginning at 6pm. This event is free and open to the public.

One Block: A New Orleans Neighborhood Rebuilds by Dave Anderson

August 26, 2010 – January 2, 2011
Opening: Thursday Aug. 26, 2010, 6 p.m.
Featuring a Gallery Talk and Booksigning with Dave Anderson

Location:
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
925 Camp St.
New Orleans, LA 70130
504-539-9600

Hours: Wed-Sun 10am-5pm, Thur 6pm-8pm

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, photographer Dave Anderson followed the reconstruction of a single Ninth Ward block in New Orleans. Through his photographs, Anderson explores the nature of community and its resilience. The photographs in this exhibition are from the book “One Block: A New Orleans Neighborhood Rebuilds” Photographs by Dave Anderson, Essay by Chris Rose (Aperture, August 2010).