[UN]Tour: Wicked Fast Workflow

Monday, Dec 5, 2011 :: 4:30-5-30pm
Free and open to the public :: Register here

New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery
1111 St. Mary Street
New Orleans, LA 70130

Khara Plicanic and her husband Emir, are riding their bicycles 3100 miles from San Diego, California to St. Augustine, Florida, stopping in eight cities along the way to teach shutterbugs of all skill levels how to improve their photos—using whatever camera it is that they already have. The [UN]tour arrives in New Orleans on December 5, offering two free mini-workshops at the New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery.

At 4:30pm, Khara invites professional wedding photographers to join her in adopting a “Wickedly Fast Wedding Workflow.” Based on her popular workflow guide (www.rockyourworkflow.com), Khara shares the principles that allow her to consistently deliver proofs and album designs to her clients within a week of their wedding (in only 6-8 hours total).

Attendance is free. Registration is available at www.theUNtour.com, along with detailed class descriptions, photos, videos, and an extensive collection of FAQ’s.

At 7:00pm they will share 10 Tips For Instantly Better Photos. More on that program here.

About
Khara Plicanic is a professional wedding photographer based in Lincoln, Nebraska where she owns KaBloom Studios. Her new book, Your Camera Loves You: Learn to Love it Back!, was just released from Peachpit Press.

Mpix is a division of Miller’s Professional Imaging. Founded in 1939, Miller’s is the largest professional photography lab in the United States with production facilities in Pittsburg, Kansas and Columbia, Missouri.

[UN]Tour: 10 Ways to Take Better Pictures

Monday, Dec 5, 2011 :: 7-8pm
Free and open to the public :: Register here

New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery
1111 St. Mary Street
New Orleans, LA 70130

Having seen too many people abandon perfectly good cameras thinking than a newer, fancier one will somehow give them better photos, professional photographer and author Khara Plicanic reminds us that, “Cameras don’t take great photos, people do!” To demonstrate, she and her husband Emir, are riding their bicycles 3100 miles from San Diego, California to St. Augustine, Florida, stopping in eight cities along the way to teach shutterbugs of all skill levels how to improve their photos—using whatever camera it is that they already have.

Presented in part by Mpix.com, Khara Plicanic and The [UN]tour will be sharing “10 Tips for Instantly Better Photos” in New Orleans at the New Orleans Photo Alliance, 1111 St. Mary St, on Monday, Dec. 5th at 7:00 p.m. Inspired by her new book, Your Camera Loves You: Learn to Love it Back, this free 1-hour class welcomes everyone with a camera, whether a total beginner or a more experienced hobbyist.

As a bonus, at 4:30 p.m. the same day, Khara invites professional wedding photographers to join her in adopting a “Wickedly Fast Wedding Workflow.” Based on her popular workflow guide (www.rockyourworkflow.com), Khara shares the principles that allow her to consistently deliver proofs and album designs to her clients within a week of their wedding (in only 6-8 hours total).

Attendance is free. Registration is available at www.theUNtour.com, along with detailed class descriptions, photos, videos, and an extensive collection of FAQ’s.

About
Khara Plicanic is a professional wedding photographer based in Lincoln, Nebraska where she owns KaBloom Studios. Her new book, Your Camera Loves You: Learn to Love it Back!, was just released from Peachpit Press.

Mpix is a division of Miller’s Professional Imaging. Founded in 1939, Miller’s is the largest professional photography lab in the United States with production facilities in Pittsburg, Kansas and Columbia, Missouri.

Robert W. Tebbs: Elmwood Plantation (side elevation), 1926, vintage gelatin silver print, Louisiana State Museum, 1956.087.331

Robert W. Tebbs: The Louisiana Plantation Photographs

December 5, 2011 – November 2012
Opening: Monday, December 5, 5:30-8:30pm

The Presbytere, Louisiana State Museum
751 Chartres St.
New Orleans, LA 70116
504-568-6968
Hours: Tue-Sun 10am-4:30pm
Museum admission: $6

Robert W. Tebbs produced the first photographic survey of Louisiana’s plantations in 1926, with the guidance of Richard Koch, New Orleans preservation architect. A precise documentarian, Tebbs also reveals a poetic sensibility in the plantation photos: a frequent emphasis on aspects of decay, neglect, incompleteness, and loss lends a wistful aura compounded by the fact that many of the homes no longer exist.

Louisiana in the mid-1920s moved from an economy beyond slave-based agriculture, toward mechanization, and on the brink of social and political reforms. Tebbs’s Louisiana plantation photographs capture a literal and cultural past, reflecting a new national awareness of historic preservation and presenting plantations to us anew. The exhibition features 60 of Tebbs’s most striking photographs, and will be on view in the 2nd Floor Special Exhibition Gallery through Nov. 2012.

On Monday, December 5th, the Friends of the Cabildo, the Louisiana Landmarks Society and the Preservation Resource Center join with the Louisiana State Museum to celebrate the opening of Louisiana Plantation Photographs by Robert Tebbs. December 5th also marks the release of the book Robert W. Tebbs, Photographer to Architects: Louisiana Plantations in 1926, written by LSM visual arts curator Dr. Richard Anthony Lewis. The Louisiana State University Press published the 165-page hardcover catalogue, with foreword by Robert J. Cangelosi, Jr., President of Koch and Wilson, APC. Lewis and Cangelosi will offer remarks and sign copies of the book.

Open to the public. Complimentary refreshments will be served.

The Presbytere, a National Historic Landmark building, is located on Jackson Square.

Nancy Newberry, untitled, from the series MUM

Nancy Newberry: MUM

December 4, 2010 – January 8, 2011
Opening: Saturday, Dec 11, 6-9 pm
Preview Party: Sunday, Dec 5, 7-9pm

HomeSpace Gallery
1128 St. Roch Ave
New Orleans, LA 70117
917-584-9867
Hours: Sat 12-5 and by appt

Texas based photographer Nancy Newberry won third place in the 2009 PhotoNOLA Review Prize. Her series “Mum” documents a gift-giving ritual virtually unknown outside of Texas, the Homecoming Mum. Large and elaborate, these uniquely decorated silk flower corsages are exchanged before the homecoming game. In documenting this tradition filled with complex systems of encoded symbology and collective history, Newberry explores the chaotic nature of self-representation, while confronting her own teenage mythology.

Holly Hughes, Editor in Chief of Photo District News (PDN), said “The photographer’s rapport with her teenaged subjects shines through in each of these environmental portraits.”

Transvestite in Furs by Andrew Garn, 1983

ON LOCATION: Photographic portraits by Andrew Garn, David Halliday, Kevin Kline, Meghan McInnis, Will Steacy, and Mark Steinmetz

December 4, 2010 – January 8, 2011
Opening: Saturday, Dec 11, 6-9 pm
Preview Party: Sunday, Dec 5, 7-9pm

HomeSpace Gallery
1128 St. Roch Ave
New Orleans, LA 70117
917-584-9867
Hours: Sat 12-5 and by appt

Photographic portraits by Andrew Garn, David Halliday, Kevin Kline, Meghan McInnis, Will Steacy, and Mark Steinmetz. Curated by Richard McCabe.

Braids by Lori Vrba

Piano Farm: Lori Vrba

Sunday, December 5, 2010
Opening: Sunday, Dec 5, 7-9pm

Louise Arsene Vitry House
2003 Dumaine Street
New Orleans, LA 70116
504- 275-9845

This one-night only show will feature the tender, haunting and emotionally evocative works of Chapel Hill-based photographer, Lori Vrba. Curated by Edward Hebert, this event will mark the debut of “Piano Farm”, Vrba’s most recent collection. “Piano Farm” speaks to the connection between an artist and a place of endless creative possibility. Join us for a night of New Orleans style cocktails, music and art in the historic Louise Arsene Vitry House.

The Louise Arsene Vitry house was built in 1855 for free woman of color, Louise Arsene Vitry, her consort, Archille Barthelmy Courcelle, and their 5 children. Louise Vitry was sued for possession of the house in 1858 and in a case that went all the way to the Louisiana State Supreme Court, she won final control of the house in 1860.

TOYING with HOLGAS
with Michelle Bates

December 5 & 6, 2010

Join Holga camera guru Michelle Bates to learn the ins and outs of shooting with Holgas and other plastic cameras. See images by world-class toy camera shooters and learn about their techniques. Get your Holga ready to roll and learn everything you need to know about shooting in all conditions, including using flash, long exposures, macro and more. Bring your Holga or buy one at the class; film and processing is included. We’ll go out shooting and review the processed film on Monday.

The first ten students to register will receive a free Holga camera, courtesy of Holga Inspire. Students also receive a discount on signed copies of the brand-new second edition of Michelle’s book, “Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity.”

Tuition: $175

Schedule:
Sunday, Dec 5 – 10am-4pm
Monday, Dec 6 – 4-6pm

Location:
The Big Top
3 Ring Circus Arts & Education Center
1638 Clio St.
New Orleans, LA
70130

Instructor:
Michelle Bates first discovered the Holga at the Maine Photographic Workshops in 1991. She has exhibited her photography in solo exhibitions in the Pacific Northwest, Los Angeles and Israel, and group shows worldwide. She has photographed for weekly newspapers, album covers, performers, artists and many others. Michelle loves teaching and frequently lectures on toy cameras to groups including the Society for Photographic Education, SF Camerawork, Powell’s Books and the Creative Center for Photography. She teaches at the Photographic Center Northwest, Newspace (PDX), Maine Media Workshops, the Julia Dean Workshops (LA) and International Center of Photography in New York, among others. Her book,”Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity” was published in 2006 by Focal Press and an updated and expanded second edition was released in October 2010.

Michelle is a member of Freestyle Photographic Supply’s Advisory Board of Photographic Professionals. She lives in Seattle, and also frequents Vashon Island, Portland (OR), San Francisco and New York. She loves to road trip and fly away with her Holgas whenever possible.

Something Old, Something New by Letitia Huckaby

Letitia Huckaby: Something Old, Something New

December 4, 2010 – January 15, 2011
Opening: Saturday, Dec 4, 6-9pm
Artist Talk: Sunday, Dec 5 at 3pm

George and Leah McKenna Museum of African American Art
2003 Carondelet Street
New Orleans LA 70130
504-586-7432
Hours: Tues. & Weds. By Appt | Thur-Sat 11am-4pm

Letitia Huckaby: Something Old, Something New
Huckaby combines the documentary aspects of photography with quilt making techniques to explore her personal history. Work from the series LA 19 incorporates photos of Huckaby’s extended family, who lived on or off of Louisiana’s state highway number nineteen. The 2-dimensional works are photographs that have been transferred onto scrap fabric which is then pieced together as a fabric collage or quilted photograph and framed. MaDear (2010) shows a woman sitting in a living room as seen through the window; the image is printed on circular pieces of silk and decorative fabric which have been sewn together.

The exhibition will also include three-dimensional works, specifically photographs of family quilts and family pictures that have been printed onto fabric and sewn into dresses. Something Old, Something New (2010) incorporates photos transferred onto fabric, as well as antique fabrics that the artist collected from other family members. These scraps were sewn into round “yo-yos,” a traditional style of quilting, that were then made into a wedding dress. The work layers the wedding tradition of old and new, as well as two- versus three dimensions (flat images sewn presented in sculptural form). Exhibit Info Source: Galveston Arts Center

Ma Dear by Letitia Huckaby

In creating this body of work I began to think about the African American women in our family who helped to create a new aesthetic of quilts, the patchwork quilts, out of sure craftiness and necessity. These quilts seemed to parallel the more male dominated world of jazz music with their random compositions and vibrant colors. Many of the women in my family made these quilts, so as a visual artist I felt inspired to take hold of this rich visual legacy and allow it to be a part of my work.

I began by photographing family quilts as a precious object. Quilts have become a symbol for the African-American experience and of those things that get passed down from generation to generation, be it good or bad. I printed the images on fabric, instead of using paper. The printed images are stitched together with various other patches to create the final pieces. These works – Letitia Huckaby