Photography art Gallery Friday Round Up - 1 November|Photography Art Definition

This week Friday Round Up is again with new exhibitions in Melbourne ? John Casamento and Deadbeat Club; Sydney ? Lost in Place and Juli Balla; Paris ? Raymond Cauchetier and; London ? Victor Burgin. Plus this weekend the second one installment of the Independent Photography Festival Melbourne kicks off.

Festival:

Independent Photography Festival ? Melbourne

(C)  Lauren Bamford Vocation Vacation

The Independent Photography Festival?S (IPF) writer and director Joe Miranda wears a couple of hats. As nicely as pulling together the program for the second day trip of IPF he?S also tipped himself in as a co-proprietor of espresso keep, Everyday Coffee in Collingwood. That?S where Alison Stieven-Taylor tracked him down to speak about this 12 months?S IPF.

Originally from London, Miranda landed in Oz four years in the past and changed into disenchanted to find the photography scene "a chunk tepid, a piece tame for the capability it had. I met plenty of desirable photographers who were passionate, however didn?T have an outlet for his or her paintings?They faced the identical paperwork and boundaries as all artists that are looking to make a residing?I desired to kick some of the ones boundaries down so we commenced the Festival?.

Miranda makes use of adjectives like ?Top notch? ?Amusing? And ?Inclusive? To explain the vibe of IPF, which is hinged on pictures and how it relates to humans. When the Festival opens on Saturday at Magic Johnston in Collingwood, it will be ?Like a big salon show? With extra than 260 prints on show - prints furnished through the photographers. The Festival does not accept digital submissions.

IPF is pitched at Miranda?S era ? He?S 24 years vintage, ?That middle age that everybody wants to enchantment to,? He says. With its origins firmly within the global of self-e-book and zines, Miranda, who additionally pens Hard Workers Club blog, hopes IPF will supply the ones running autonomously an possibility to expand their target market now not simplest in terms of showing work, but also in locating like-minded souls.

(C) Cheryl Dunn Everybody Street (documentary movie)

?I clearly wanted to work with some first rate people who wanted to do a great element,? Says Miranda of the group at the back of IPF. He?S enlisted aid from the likes of Penny Modra (Three Thousand) and Rob from design employer Smalltime Projects to pull the competition collectively. Smith Journal is a sponsor and its editor Nadia Saccardo one of the judges in this yr?S IPF prize.

Wanting to pull photography back to the broadcast shape, the Festival?S broadsheet ?Encapsulates the ethos of the pageant. Photography is tactile, and that entire physical process of growing, scanning, printing ? All the things that virtual has taken away ? Is what we're approximately?. That doesn?T mean virtual doesn?T have an area, says Miranda, however it isn?T the handiest element that photography is ready nowadays.

(C) Che Parker Westralia

IPF opens Saturday 2 November and runs till Sunday 10 November with a couple of standalone exhibitions at numerous venues around the metropolis as well as a workshop day. Visit the internet site for full information.

The Festival Kiosk, where you can buy Zines and photobooks amongst another items is open Saturday 2 November from 10am-4pm at Cnr. Lonsdale & Swanston Streets, Melbourne (in the heart of the city).

Festival Opening Saturday 2 November at 6pm at Magic Johnston, 27-29 Johnston Street, Collingwood

Exhibitions

Melbourne:

John Casamento – Out of the Darkroom

'Lili Marlene' Comes To Melbourne

From the moment he picked up a camera at 12 years of age John Casamento fell under the spell of photography. Throughout his career as a photojournalist with the Sun News Pictorial (now the Herald Sun) that began in the 1950s, Casamento photographed every aspect of Melbourne life. Now his sons, Peter and Joseph, have curated a retrospective of his work, which opens at Photonet Gallery on Sunday 3 November. Next week Friday Round Up will feature an interview with John and Alison Stieven-Taylor, but for now here are a few images from the exhibition to whet your appetite.

(C) All images John Casamento

Out of the Darkroom

Official opening by cartoonist Geoff "Jeff" Hook on Sunday 10 November 4-6pm

Exhibition 3-23 November

Photonet Gallery

15a Railway Place

Fairfield

Deadbeat Club (USA): Rectangular Detritus

(C) Ed Templeton, 'Makeup Girls, St. Petersberg, Russia' 2007

Presented in conjunction with IPF, this group show features six photographers - Devin Briggs, Nolan Hall, Grant Hatfield, Deanna Templeton, Ed Templeton, and Clint Woodside - who shoot on film and document life as it happens.

8 – 16 November

Strange Neighbour

395–397 Gore Street

Fitzroy

Strange Neighbour is a gallery space in the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy. Exhibition proposals for 2014 are currently being accepted. Click here for further details.

Sydney:

Lost in Place – Group Show

(C) Lynn Smith

Ten photographic artists - Catherine Cloran, Digby Duncan, Helen Grace, Caroline McLean-Foldes, Sally McInerney, Ian Provest, Suellen Symons, Chris Round, Lynn Smith and Niobe Syme - explore the theme of “place” in this exhibition curated by Arthere’s Sandy Edwards. With such an open theme ‘Lost in Place’ encompasses emotional, physical and ethereal interpretations that move from atypical imagery to traditional landscape.

(C) Sally McInerney

(C) Niobe Syme

5-9 November

Damien Minton Gallery

583 Elizabeth Street

Redfern

Juli Balla – Persona Non Grata

Photographic artist Juli Balla’s latest show is on at Black Eye Gallery in Darlinghurst. Of “Persona Non Grata” Balla says, “Whether we like it or not, we are frequently judged by our outward appearances; the hairstyle we favour, the sunglasses we choose or the clothing style we adopt. In this work I have removed the human element and let the outward accessories speak for themselves…You look at these assemblages and they become someone you know or someone you’ve seen”.

(C) All images Juli Balla

Until 10 November

Black Eye Gallery

3/138 Darlinghurst Rd,

Darlinghurst

London

Victor Burgin – On Paper

Victor BURGIN

Untitled (Australia 1788 - 1988), 1988

Double-spread, Parachute no 50

© Victor Burgin, Courtesy of Richard Saltoun Gallery

Victor Burgin, who was born in 1941, is one of the most prominent thought leaders in visual arts. He first exhibited in the late 1960s/early 1970s at ICA London and MoMA New York. He has also written several books and the seminal work Thinking Photography continues to influence discussion on this genre.

“On paper” encompasses Burgin’s paper-based works from the late-60s to now with a focus on “his radical intervention into mainstream media through the interplay of text and image”. This is Burgin’s first solo show in a private gallery in London since 1986.

“The exhibition features some key works from the 70s and 80s that deconstruct photographic images in relation to their juxtaposed texts, such as Framed (1977, from the series US 77), which subverts a Marlboro cigarette campaign, and Possession (1976), a series of 500 posters installed throughout the city of Newcastle upon Tyne showing a man and woman embracing next to the statement ‘What does possession mean to you? / 7% of our population own 84% of our wealth’.”

Victor BURGIN

Going Somewhere?, 1976

Double-page spread from exhibition catalogue, group show at Fruitmarket, Edinburgh

© Victor Burgin, Courtesy of Richard Saltoun Gallery

Victor BURGIN

Sensation, 1975

Photographic print on board, 127.5 x 249.5 cm

© Victor Burgin, Courtesy of Richard Saltoun Gallery

Until 6 December

Richard Saltoun Gallery

111 Great Titchfield Street

London W1W 6RY

Paris

Raymond Cauchetier - Flashback

A BOUT DE SOUFFLE

Jean Seberg and Jean Paul Belmondo

On the Champs Elysées 1959

(C) Raymond Cauchetier

This year’s Salon de la Photo in Paris features a major retrospective of the work of French photographer Raymond Cauchetier. Born in 1920, Cauchetier spent his early career in Indochina, and can be considered one of the early street photographers. His work gained critical acclaim and in the 1950s he exhibited in Japan and the United States where his collection "Faces of Vietnam" became a popular touring exhibition.

(C) Raymond Cauchetier 1953 Vietnam

(C) Raymond Cauchetier 1960

Returning to his homeland in the late 1950s Cauchetier spent the next decade immersed in the world of cinema working in an era known as Nouvelle Vague. He shot for leading directors including Jean-Luc Goddard and was on the set of films such as Breathless (the photograph below of Jean Seberg and Jean Paul Belmondo is considered one of his most well known). But his love for Asia continued to draw him back to that part of the world throughout his career.

1954 Pierre Schoendorffer à Dien Bien Phu

(C) Raymond Cauchetier

Now in his nineties, this retrospective "Raymond Cauchetier: Flashback" is a fitting tribute to this French master.

The Salon de la Photo is one of the major photography events held in Paris in November.

7-11 November

Porte de Versailles in Paris

Wherever you are have a wonderful weekend.