Catch up with MoCP collection artists
Richard Misrach, via Artinfo
A photo by Richard Misrach was seen by millions of people internationally when it appeared as the desktop background on the iPad. Videos popped up internet-wide last week as Apple Corporation and Steve Jobs introduced the device while simultaneously giving Misrach some great exposure. Surprisingly, Misrach was unaware that the image would appear. Read more at Artinfo.
The City of Tampa has selected Karen Glaser as the 2010 Photographer Laureate. This is a program in Tampa modeled after those such as the Farm Security Administration??s Photography Program. Each year Tampa??s Public Art Program commissions a photographer via a juried process, to do a distinct project of the artist??s choosing and an archive is being built through these images about the life and times of Tampa. More at City of Tampa.
Eirik Johnson
Eirik Johnson has been named as a finalist for the 2010 James and Audrey Foster Prize, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston's biennial award and exhibition. Read the press release at the ICA site.
Brian Ulrich, via amysteinphoto.blogspot.com
New work by Amy Stein and Brian Ulrich appears in their 2-person show ??Instruments of Empire? at Caption Gallery in Brooklyn, through March 25. Stein says of the show: ??On the surface our two series couldn??t be more different; one, portraits of stranded motorists and the other environmental landscapes of abandoned box stores. Look deeper and you??ll see two artists engaged in long-term projects examining the real and metaphorical effects of a country strained by the collapse and corruption of our social institutions.? Read more at both Amy Stein??s blog and Brian Ulrich??s blog.
Finally, you recently may have seen the shortened version of a television commercial starring Elliot Erwitt. The ad aims to boost tourism in Puerto Rico. See the extended version here, with extra commentary from Erwitt. And read more at PDN.
Artinfo reports that the print archive of Magnum Photo agency has been acquired by computer mogul Michael Dell and moved to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. The archive ??includes iconic images from the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Civil Rights movement, as well as celebrity portraits that helped define the look of postwar American consumer culture.? Work of 14 MoCP collection photographers appears in the archive, including that from Robert Capa, Eliot Erwitt, Dennis Stock, Alec Soth, and Susan Meiselas. Read more at Artinfo and the New York Times.
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