FotoWeek DC Events

Exhibition: “Nadia Hughes: Visions of Nature”. Photographs by Nadia Hughes

9/1/2008 - 12/31/2008

T: 301.654.3737
W: www.visionsbethesda.com

Hours:
Tuesday - Friday 11AM - 10PM
Saturday Noon - 10PM
Sunday 11AM - 8PM
Closed Mondays

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Nadia Hughes has for 12 years been working as a Photo Editor at The National Geographic Society’s Image Collection, winnowing down thousands of images to only the very best selections for commercial and editorial clients. It is no wonder then, that her discerning eye has found its way to her own viewfinder as a photographer with a keen sense of composition, color and humor. She is commercially represented by the National Geographic Image Collection

FREE to view
$12.95 two-course lunch includes beverage
Mention FotoWeek DC and Nadia Hughes and receive $10 off your bill

Exhibition: “Albanian Muslim Rescuers During the Holocaust”. Photographs by Norman Gershman

9/2/2008 - 11/30/2008

T: 202.777.3208
W: washingtondcjcc.org/

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When post-World War II Europe found itself devastated by the loss of its Jewish population, Albania was the only country to boast a larger number of Jewish people than it had housed prior to the Holocaust. Over 2,000 Jews from Albania, Greece, Austria, and Italy were hidden in the homes of Albanian Muslim families throughout the War. Norman Gershman, an American photographer fascinated by these stories, traveled to Albania and Kosovo to chronicle the tales of the righteous Albanians and their devotion to Besa, an Albanian code of honor, which means "to keep the promise." In Gershman’s meetings with righteous Albanians, each photo subject referenced his or her Besa—faith and honor—as the source of personal courage in rescuing Jewish people during the Holocaust. As Basri Hasani, a righteous Albanian, describes, “My door is always open to someone in need.” It is the Besa of the Albanian people that Gershman captures in his photographs. Gershman’s portraits serve as representations of the character of each individual depicted, as well as historical documentation of the Albanian Resistance. Each portrait, which often illuminates the presence of an artifact, is accompanied by a personal statement of the individual’s honorable act. Through subtle portraiture, Gershman is able to communicate the honor, faith, and altruism of Albanian rescuers during the Holocaust. An exhibition of Righteous Albanian Muslims Who Saved Jews in WWII was first honored at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem and the United Nations. This extended exhibition of Muslims Who Saved Jews in WWII comes to the DCJCC from Hebrew Union College.

Free

Exhibition: “The Theater of Insects”. Photographs by Jo Whaley

9/2/2008 - 12/10/2008

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Beetles, butterflies, dragonflies, and other insects take the stage in Jo Whaley’s images. She arranges and photographs these entomological specimens in environments constructed in her studio, drawing inspiration from the cabinets of curiosity and natural history dioramas of an earlier era of scientific inquiry.Whaley uses color, texture, composition, and lighting to highlight the awe-inspiring and jewel-like qualities of the insects.Juxtaposing the specimens against found objects and manufactured materials such as paper, glass, paint, and metal, Whaley encourages viewers to think about the coexistence of natural and artificial environments in the modern world.

Jo Whaley’s background in theatrical design informs her artwork. In the 1980s, she was a scene painter for the San Francisco Opera and Ballet and was the head painter at the Zellerbach Playhouse at the University of California, Berkeley. She has received advanced degrees in art and photography and her work is in many major collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Her book, The Theater of Insects, is being published by Chronicle Books in the Fall of 2008.

Viewable by appointment, call (202) 334-2436

Free

Exhibition: “They Came from Beyond the Beltway: Tourists at the National Mall” Photographs by Lucian Perkins

9/5/2008 - 11/21/2008

T: 202.234.5601
W: www.carrollsquare.com

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In this series of photographs,Pulitzer Prize winning photographerLucian Perkins captures the never-ending parade of tourists making their way through the nation's capital.

Free

Exhibition: “20/40” Photographs by 20 Washington-area photographers

9/13/2008 - 11/29/2008

T: 202.328.0955

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40 photographs by 20 Washington-area photographers

Free

Exhibition: “Richard Avedon: Portraits of Power” Photographs by Richard Avedon

9/13/2008 - 1/25/2009

T: 202.639.1867
W: www.corcoran.org

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Richard Avedon, America’s pre-eminent portraitist and fashion photographer, portrayed significant figures of the American political landscape throughout his career. This exhibition brings together Avedon’s work on the subjects of politics and power for the first time. Juxtaposing more than 200 images of government, media, business, and labor officials with photographs of artists, activists, and ordinary citizens caught up in national debates, Richard Avedon: Portraits of Power explores a five-decade photographic inquiry by one of our finest artists.

General Admission $6
This allows access to the Permanent Collections galleries only.
All reciprocity agreements will be honored.
Members of the Corcoran and children ages six and under admitted free of charge.

Exhibition: “Lost Futures: Journeys into the Jewish Diaspora”, Photographs by Chrystie Sherman

9/17/2008 - 1/9/2009

T: 202.895.6705

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During the past six years, Chrystie Sherman has been working on a unique photographic project to record visually Jewish communities that are in danger of disappearing. These communities have their roots in Ancient Babylonian, Persian, Ashkenazi and Sephardic heritages. For over 2,000 years, these peoples have migrated to many different areas--from the far reaches of the Manchurian border to North Africa. The exhibition includes photos of Jewish communities in India, Ukraine, Cuba, North Africa, among others. It documents the rich traditions but also the vulnerability of these communities and addresses issues of oppression, poverty and emigration.

Free

“Traveling Mercies: Humanitarian Journeys into Afghanistan and Kenya”Photographer: Aldo Magazzeni

9/25/2008 - 11/21/2008

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The largest exhibition in American University Library’s history, “Traveling Mercies” features more than 50 photographs and artifacts from Afghanistan and Kenya collected by photographer and humanitarian Aldo Magazzeni during his global missions to assist communities in need and remove barriers between cultures.

Artist Reception: Thursday, November 13, 6:30-8pm. RSVP to 202-885-3847 or larocca@american.edu

Free

Exhibition: "Women by Women": A Juried Exhibition of the Women Photojournalists of Washington (WPOW)

9/25/2008 - 1/3/2009

T: 202.546.1210
W: www.sewallbelmont.org

Hours:
Tue-Friday 11-3 and sat 12-4.
Closed sun and mon and other hours by appointment.

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Photographers include Juana Arias, Andrea Bruce, Gabriela Bulisova, Masie Crow, Sarah Evans, Katie Falkenberg, Michelle Frankfurter, Katherine Frey, Alexis C. Glenn, Melissa Golden, Abby Greenawalt, Katja Heinemann, Jessica Koscielniak-Woolf,Monica Lopossay, Sarah Nix, Yanina Manolova, Melina Mara, Jacquelyn Martin, Nicole Martyn, Nancy Pastor, Susana Raab, Astrid Riecken, Amy Toensing and Sarah L. Voisin.

The women of the Women Photojournalists of Washington craft a visual journey through the lives of women and girls around the world. From the desperation of an emergency room in Haiti, to an ordered classroom in China; from the bubble gum pink of a girls bathroom during a middle school dance, to a whitewashed detention center on Mexico's border--moments of beauty, humor and darkness present themselves in their rawest form. FotoWeek Exhibit Opening to be held Thursday, November 20th, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Free--donations are welcome

Exhibition: “Sweden from Above”. Photographer: Lars Bygdemark

9/26/2008 - 11/30/2008

T: 202.467.2600

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Pictures with a difference, showing the variegated face of the Swedish landscape from Måkläppen, at the southernmost tip of the country to the mighty mountain of Kebnekaise in the north.For over thirty years the aerial photographer Lars Bygdemark has documented both untouched nature and man-made environments all across Sweden - a kaleidoscope of form and color astounding in its rich variety. By viewing the pictures in this exhibit you will be fascinated by the beauty and very much inspired to visit Sweden.

Free

Exhibition: “Georgia O’Keefe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities”. Photographs by Ansel Adams

9/26/2008 - 1/4/2009

T: 202.633.1000
E: SAAMinfo@si.edu
W: americanart.si.edu/

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Sunday, November 16 at 4:00PM., join a special docent-led tour of the exhibition. 

For additional information, visit AmericanArt.si.edu.
Sunlight deserts, Taos churches, and Western skies are captured in the remarkable work of two iconic American artists. Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities examines the friendship of two artists who were attracted to the distinct landscape of the American southwest and were committed to depicting its essence with modernist sensibilities. This exhibition, the first to pair these artists, celebrates their mutual appreciation of the natural world and reveals the visual connections between O'Keeffe's paintings and Adams' photographs. The exhibition includes forty-two paintings from public and private collections and fifty-four photographs borrowed primarily from the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, which holds the largest single collection of Adams' work. Independent scholar Anne Hammond selected the artworks for the exhibition. Eleanor Harvey, chief curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, is the coordinating curator with Toby Jurovics, the museum's curator of photography.

Free

Exhibition: “Uncommon Beauty”

10/3/2008 - 12/13/2008

T: 703.228.7710
W: www.arlingtonarts.org/ellipseartscenter.htm

Hours:

(Gallery is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays)

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Presented by Washington Project for the Arts and the Ellipse Arts Center and Juried by Sarah Tanguy. Photographs by Kay Chernush, Mary Coble, Frank Hallam Day, Jason Horowitz, Lucian Perkins and Athena Tacha.

In contrast to the standards of the media and the fashion world, exhibiting artists for Uncommon Beauty will stake out alternative perspectives. While they are important topics, the overall focus of the exhibition is not our society’s obsession with diet fads, obesity, and cosmetic intervention. Instead, the exhibition seeks to investigate the underpinnings of beauty and imperfection; how standards and ideals become formed and perceived; and the dynamics of self-esteem, self-hate and acceptance. The intent is to offer something different, unexpected, positive, or ambivalent; something that problematizes the notion of beauty without merely bashing it.

Free

Exhibition: “Women of Our Time: Twentieth Century Photographs

10/10/2008 - 2/1/2009

T: 202.633.8300
W: www.npg.si.edu/

Hours:
Open Daily 11:30AM -7:00PM

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Photographs by:
- Philippe Halsman
- Lotte Jacobi
- Lisette Model
- Irving Penn
- Edward Steichen

In the exhibition "Women of Our Time: Twentieth Century Photographs," the National Portrait Gallery celebrates women who have challenged and changed America. Drawn exclusively from the Portrait Gallery's collection, these revealing portraits show women who have reached the summit of achievement in politics, business, the arts, sports, performance, music and science. The exhibition includes photographs of Margaret Wise Brown, Amelia Earhart, Althea Gibson, Billie Holiday, Helen Keller, Marilyn Monroe, Georgia O'Keeffe, Gertrude Stein, Gloria Steinem and Wendy Wasserstein. Featuring distinguished 20th century photographers the exhibition includes works by Philippe Halsman, Lotte Jacobi, Lisette Model, Irving Penn and Edward Steichen, among others. "Women of Our Time" is as much about the art of photographic portraiture as it is a celebration of its subjects.

Free

Exhibition: Oceans, Rivers, and Skies: Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, and Alfred Stieglitz

10/12/2008 - 3/15/2009

T: 202.737.4215
W: www.nga.gov/

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Photographs by:
- Ansel Adams
- Robert Adams
- Alfred Stieglitz

Three important and beautiful series of black-and-white landscape photographs will be showcased in Oceans, Rivers, and Skies: Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, and Alfred Stieglitz. This focus exhibition features 21 works in chronological order: ten by Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), five by Ansel Adams (1902–1984), and six by Robert Adams (b. 1937). The three series have never before been exhibited together, and Stieglitz's Music: A Sequence of Ten Cloud Photographs was last seen in its entirety in 1923. The series in this exhibition offer an opportunity to examine the relationship between time and photography and to explore the ways in which photographers have created extended sequences of images to expand the pictorial and conceptual boundaries of their work.

Free

Exhibit: “Whales: From the Depths of the National Geographic Collection”

10/12/2008 - 1/18/2009

T: 202.857.7588
W: www.ngmuseum.org

Hours:
Open Mondays through Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and
Sundays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Museum is closed Dec. 25.

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This exhibition, which complements the interactive exhibition "Whales Tohora" in the museum's main gallery, features more than 30 photographs culled from National Geographic's photo collection of these magnificent marine creatures. It includes photos of a variety of whale species from a wide geographic distribution, and features work from 13 National Geographic photographers, including Flip Nicklin, Paul Nicklen, Jason Edwards, David Doubilet, Michael Nichols, Brian Skerry, Tim Laman, Al Giddings, and Wolcott Henry.

Free

Role Models: Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography

10/17/2008 - 1/25/2009

T: 202.783.7373
W: www.nmwa.org

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Photographs by Eleanor Antin, Anna Gaskell, Nan Goldin, Nikki S. Lee, Sally Mann, Mary Ellen Mark, Catherine Opie, Cindy Sherman and Carrie Mae Weams.

In today’s image-conscious world, photography is one of the most powerful mediators of our sense of self. This exhibition features the work of two generations of artists whose portraiture, self-portraiture, and narrative photographs have indelibly inflected our understanding of gender and identity over the past 30 years. More specifically it focuses on how role models and role-playing have been central to the art, meaning, and social function of contemporary photography. Role Models begins with the 1980s, a time when many American women artists and photographers such as Eleanor Antin and Cindy Sherman realized that they could be both the creator and the subject of their work, while others such as Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, and Mary Ellen Mark sought to document the varied roles that women and girls try on in their struggle to find an identity that fits. Role Models also considers how, by the late 1990s, a generation of photographers including Anna Gaskell, Catherine Opie, and Nikki S. Lee had become exemplars for a new cadre of younger women artists by collapsing old boundaries between postmodern and documentary photography, establishing new post-feminist sensibilities and evolving more fluid concepts of female identity.

Monday - Saturday 10:00AM to 5:00PM
Sunday 12:00PM to 5:00PM

$10 adults, $8 students and visitors 60 and over, free for youth 18 and under and NMWA members

Exhibition: “Wounded Cities” Photographs by Leo Rubinfien

10/18/2008 - 2/17/2009

T: 202.639.1867
W: www.corcoran.org

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On the morning of September 11, 2001, the photographer Leo Rubinfien was in his Manhattan apartment across the street from the World Trade Center, and watched from close up as the hijacked airplanes struck the towers. Through those hours of destruction and the subsequent days of displacement, he never picked up a camera, but months afterward, while working in Tokyo at the time of the first Bali bombings, he began to recognize the aftereffects of “freelance warfare” in people who had known terrorism in their own recent past. He was less interested in physical wounds than in the psychological marks an attack can leave—in the sorrow, fear and nobility it may imprint on the faces of its survivors. “I found myself searching the faces on each street corner,” he wrote later, “where, as people waited for the light to change…I would hope to discover indications of who they really were, what they really felt and thought. I began to photograph some of the people, almost as if the pictures might contain clues.” Over the next six years, Rubinfien journeyed to more than 20 cities around the world—including London, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Istanbul, Nairobi, Karachi and Jerusalem—searching out what he called the “mental wound” that he himself had felt in New York. The resulting portraits, marked by their intimacy and exquisite craftsmanship, are premiered at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Large prints from this project float in the gallery without frames, offering an experience of great immediacy and deep feeling.

General Admission $6
This allows access to the Permanent Collections galleries only.
All reciprocity agreements will be honored.
Members of the Corcoran and children ages six and under admitted free of charge.

Exhibition: New works by Kahn & Selesnick, Gina Brocker, Marla Rutherford and Kerry Skarbakka

10/18/2008 - 12/6/2008

Hours:
Open Tuesday thru Saturday (11:00AM – 6:00PM)

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Kahn and Selesnick take their signature style for combining documentary realism, historical fictional narrative, and satire to a new level of contemporary resonance. The project Eisbergfreistadt documents the creation of a historical imaginary principality founded after a mammoth iceberg ran aground in the Baltic port of Lubeck in 1923. Gina Brocker has developed a series of intimate portraits of an Irish “traveler” family, their transition to city life, and the identities of young people in this seldom documented domestic environment. Working with professional fetish models in LA, Marla Rutherford’s portrait work references many genres of photography—fashion, advertising, glamour, fetish, film stills, Pirelli Calendars—to present highly original fictional and performative portraits that play off seemingly incongruous worlds. In his best known series, The Struggle to Right Oneself, Kerry Skarbakka stages himself in scenes of losing balance and control. His arresting photographs appear at the intersection of performance and artist's portraits, and each composition dramatizes one of the deepest themes of our moment--the sense losing balance and control both personally and socially. The works will be exhibited in the back gallery concurrent with Regime Change Starts at Home: Shepard Fairey, Al Farrow and Paul D Miller (DJ Spooky)

Free

Exhibition: “Tokens of Affection and Regard: Photographic Jewelry and Its Makers”

10/24/2008 - 6/21/2009

T: 202.633.8300
W: www.npg.si.edu/

Hours:
Open Daily 11:30AM -7:00PM

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“Tokens of Affection and Regard: Photographic Jewelry and Its Makers” presents a special installation of more than 50 examples of antique photographic jewelry drawn largely from the collection of Larry J. West and the National Portrait Gallery’s permanent collection. This exhibition examines the popular 19th-century practice of collecting and wearing jewelry containing photographic portraits. Just as people today wear lockets, it was a popular custom in the 19th century to wear small keepsakes with photographs of loved ones, whether for private enjoyment or public display. While some of the photographic jewelry in the show was worn for a specific function, such as an expression of mourning, other pieces were prized largely for their decorative value. The show not only features examples of photographic jewelry—ranging from bracelets, rings and necklaces to watch winders and pins—but also presents intriguing daguerreotypes of people wearing this jewelry. Although most of the jewelry in the exhibition is not attributed to specific photographers, the show includes an 1853 advertisement for New York City–based daguerreotypist Martin M. Lawrence, whose gallery, among other services, marketed “a great variety of … Lockets, Bracelets, Pins, Rings, &c.” The exhibition presents examples from a succession of photographic mediums, including daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes and paper prints. In addition to the photographic jewelry on display, the exhibition includes images of some of the celebrated pioneering photographers of the 19th century known to have made and sold photographic jewelry, including Mathew Brady, Jeremiah Gurney, Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes.

Free

DARFUR/DARFUR, a traveling exhibit of images by world renowned photojournalists on the crisis and culture in Darfur, Sudan. Curated by Leslie Thomas.

10/24/2008 - 12/6/2008

T: 202.347.0022
W: www.civilianartprojects.com

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DARFUR/DARFUR, a traveling exhibit of images by world renowned photojournalists on the crisis and culture in Darfur, Sudan. Curated by Leslie Thomas. Photojournalists include Lynsey Addario, Mark Brecke, Helene Caux, Ron Haviv, Paolo Pellegrin, James Nachtwey, Ryan Spencer Reed, and Michal Safdie edited by Matthew Jacob and accompanied by Sudanese inspired music. DARFUR/DARFUR will be presented in support of its sponsor, the international NGO Global Grassroots (www.globalgrassroots.org) that provides social change opportunities for women survivors of genocide in Africa.

Free

"Pastime," a contemporary photography exhibition

10/24/2008 - 12/6/2008

T: 202.347.0022
W: www.civilianartprojects.com

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"Pastime," a contemporary photography exhibition including works by Ken Ashton, Jason Falchook, Kate MacDonnell, Carlos Charlie Perez, Christopher Sims and Noelle K. Tan.

Free

A highly personal showcase of film photographer Emily Whiting's best work in black and white portraiture

10/26/2008 - 11/30/2008

T: 301.634.2274
W: www.glenechophotoworks.org

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Whiting's work is a visual narrative of the family and friends that punctuate her life. Stunning and direct, these highly personal black and white portraits are not to be missed.

Saturdays, 1:00-4:00 pm
Sundays & Wednesdays, 1:00-8:00 pm

Free

Exhibition: Ancient Greek Treasures from the Walters Art Museum

11/1/2008 - 11/30/2008

T: T: 202.939.1300

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Opening Reception - Wednesday, November 19 at 7:00PM
Exhibition Description: The Art of Photography in Museum Documentation. Photography has been used to record archaeological sites and objects since the 19th century. It remains today an indispensable tool in excavation and museum documentation. In the museum context, photographs of objects serve a large variety of purposes. Photography is used to document, research, and publish the collection. Staff members as well as scholars, students and other interested members of the public utilize photography and digital resources to learn more about the works of art. In conservation, photography is used to record the condition and every step of the treatment of the object. Special techniques like photomicrographs, ultraviolet photography, infra-red imaging, and x-radiography reveal information about the art not visible to the naked eye. Museum photographers produce images that serve all kinds of purposes, both scholarly and commercial. When done well these images become surrogates, acting as ambassadors for the art and collections they represent.  The photography exhibition ³ Ancient Greek Treasures from the Walters Art Museum² is a perfect example of documenting and highlighting a wealth of visual information, difficult to see in a museum showcase, especially of smaller artifacts such as jewelry and small scale objects.

Free

Exhibition: "Man and Machine". Photography by Ezra Stoller

11/1/2008 - 11/30/2008

T: 202.966.9411
W: www.1050Kstreet.com

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Fifty photographs by Ezra Stoller (1915–2004) displayed in the exhibition, “Man and Machine,” reveal an engagement with industry and machines in postwar United States when production and new technologies were at the forefront of ideas of “progress.” Many of these photographs were taken for promotional purposes, or to emphasize achievements in industry for Fortune Magazine, while others capture the workplace, its objects, and the more private engagement with machines. Most of these images have not be published since they were originally commissioned and allow us to see the work both as historical documentation and as art revealing the zeitgeist of the time.

(Ongoing - office hours)

Free

Exhibition: Scale Matters: Photographs from the Joseph and Charlotte Lichtenberg Collection

11/1/2008 - 2/1/2009

T: 202.387.2151
W: www.phillipscollection.org

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Seven large landscape photographs by two photographers (Lynn Davis and Edward Burtynsky) reflecting an environmental awareness will be on display. These photographs offer modern interpretations of the sublime: Lynn Davis’s colossal, elegiac views draw on 19th-century photographic sources, and Edward Burtynsky’s awe-inspiring vistas create unsettling beauty out of scarred, industrial landscapes. (Included in museum admission)

Permanent Collection

Tuesday through Friday:
Admission to the permanent collection is by donation; contributions are gladly accepted.

Saturday and Sunday:
All weekend visitors pay the special exhibition fee.
When there is no special exhibition, weekend admission is $10 for adults, $8 for visitors 62 and over and students.

Tickets may be purchased at the museum or through Ticketmaster.
There is no charge for admission for visitors 18 and under or formembers of The Phillips Collection.

The Mind's Eye - Photography exhibition

11/4/2008 - 12/8/2008

T: 703.683.2205
W: www.multipleexposuresgallery.com

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Reception Saturday November 22, 5:30PM - 8:00PM
Juried by Steve Uzell, this FineArt Photography show features new work of gallery members.

Free

Exhibition: Faces of India by Kathy Udell

11/4/2008 - 12/2/2008

T: 703.836.5807
W: www.torpedofactory.org

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Reception: Saturday, November 22, 2008 from 5:30 - 7:30pm. Kathy Udell’s striking photographs capture the chaos and beauty of India, a country that overwhelms your senses with varied and constantly changing sights, sounds, smells, and, if you dare, tastes. The body of work will be celebrated with a special reception during the huge FotoWeek DC Celebration at the Torpedo Factory on the evening of Saturday, November 22.

Free

Exhibit: “Focal Point”

11/5/2008 - 1/4/2009

T: 202.857.7588
W: www.ngmuseum.org

Hours:
Open Mondays through Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and
Sundays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Museum is closed Dec. 25.

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Photography by:
- Sam Abell
- Alexandra Avakian
- Reza Focal

Point is a new series of titles from National Geographic Books that draws on National Geographic’s legendary photographic archive of more than 10 million images. This exhibition features 24 selections from three upcoming Focal Point volumes celebrating the individual vision and style of photographers Alexandra Avakian, Sam Abell, and RezaFree

Free

Exhibition: “Visions of Paradise” - National Geographic Contemporary Masters

11/5/2008 - 1/2/2009

T: 202.483.8600
E: gallery@smithfarm.com
W: www.smithfarm.com/gallery/index.html

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November 15, 2008 1:00PM-2:00PM
Special presentation by Randy Olson and Joel Sartore

Photographers:
- William Albert Allard
- Jodi Cobb
- David Doubilet
- Beverly Joubert
- Michael Nichols
- Paul Nicklen
- Randy Olson
- Joel Sartore
- Michael Yamashita

Where…or what…is heaven on earth? Nine National Geographic contemporary masters answer the question in a new gallery show. From the exuberance of a coming-of-ageritual to the boldness of a wild creature’s gaze to the pride in catching the Big Fish, these images offer an exquisite sense of place as they reveal an intimate state of mind.

Free

Exhibition: “Wide Asleep by Michael Borek”. Photographer: Michael Borek

11/6/2008 - 12/15/2008

T: 202.274.9105

Hours:
9–5 (Monday through Thursday), 9–3 (Friday)
Please call 202.274.9105 to schedule an appointment.

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Czech-American photographer Michael Borek’s work ranges from the playful—a fairytale-like balloon sailing over Prague—to the ominous—a scene from a Santa Fe railway depot that is evocative of a David Lynch movie. All his photographs share a dreaminess that pays homage to the many surrealist artists he admires. He derives his inspiration from the old in our modernized world. Having spent a number of years surrounded by the lifeless architecture of the communist era, Borek was drawn toward the aged architectural structures of the 1920s and 1930s. The magic of the buildings’ falling stucco and peeling paint captivated the author’s lens. In the U.S. landscape, Borek seeks the forgotten neighborhoods with his camera capturing the randomness and traces of former lives. Presently, Borek resides in the Washington, DC area.

Free

Exhibition: “Aimee Helen Koch: Undressed”. Photographs by Aimee Helen Koch

11/6/2008 - 12/20/2008

T: 703.790.1953
W: www.mpaart.org

Hours:
Tuesday - Friday, 10 - 4
Saturday 1 - 5
and by appointment.

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Created at a residency in Paris, these photographs are from a series that investigates the runway model and it's influences on women's self-perception. Set against a stark black background, these visually arresting images depict the clothes but not t wearer, erasing the person both literally and metaphorically.

Free

Exhibition: “Photograms by Michael C. Mendez”.

11/6/2008 - 12/20/2008

T: 703.790.1953
W: www.mpaart.org

Hours:
Tuesday - Friday, 10 - 4
Saturday 1 - 5
and by appointment.

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Photographer: Michael Mendez. Photographs using experimental and historical techniques explore the socialization and effects of alcohol and illicit substances in society. Mendez currently resides in West Virginia and teaches at Shepherd University.

Free

Exhibition: “A Disenchanted Playroom”. Photographs by Wolfram Han

11/6/2008 - 1/2/2009

T: 202.289.1200
E: info@washington.goethe.org
W: www.goethe.de/ins/us/was/enindex.htm

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Capturing children’s facial expressions as they watch television, photographer Wolfram Han’s images portray how children react to this mass medium, losing the subtle charm of real life as they fall under its influence. Their regards seem sad and lifeless, with facial expressions more to be associated with adults. What transfixes their attention, causing them to stare so fixedly at a signle point yet remain so detached?

Free

Exhibition: Wanderings in Photography

11/7/2008 - 11/30/2008

T: 703.838.4565
W: www.torpedofactory.org

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Reception: Saturday, November 22, 5:30 - 8pm. Torpedo Factory photographers will display their work in public spaces throughout the third floor of the art center. The reception takes place during the huge FotoWeek DC Celebration at the Torpedo Factory on Saturday evening, November 22.

Free

Exhibition: FotoWeek DC at The Art League

11/7/2008 - 12/1/2008

T: 703.683.1780
W: www.torpedofactory.org

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Juried exhibition of fine art photography by members of The Art League and the Torpedo Factory Artists' Association.

Free

""TEN"" an exhibition of photographs by 10 artists from the Capitol Hill Art League, a program of the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop.

11/7/2008 - 12/20/2008

T: 202.546.2700

Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday (10:00AM - 6:00PM)

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Opening reception: 6:00-8:00PM  Friday, November 7, 2008
Closing reception: 5:00-7:00PM  Saturday, December 20, 2008

Photographers:
- Geoff Ault
- Marilyn Christiano
- Michael Fleischhacker
- Melanie Hauer
- Jackie Hoysted
- Martha Huizenga
- David Klavitter
- Rindy O'Brien
- Kelly Perl
- Ann Thomson

Free

Exhibition: Washington Project for the Arts presents: “Known Unknowns”, curated by Amanda Maddox, Assistant Curator of Photography, Corcoran Gallery of Art

11/7/2008 - 12/20/2008

T: 202.338.0680
W: www.artsandartists.org

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Curator and Artists Panel Discussion: Wednesday, November 19th 6:00-8:00PM

Photographs By:
- Avi Gupta
- Kate MacDonnell
- Sandra Rottman
- Christopher Saah

Thinking about photography as a source of knowledge, and as something that is knowable, calls into question what we understand is unknowable about images. This exhibition seeks to explore the notion of information existing beyond the photographic frame and behind the surface of the image.

Free

Athena Tacha, Rocks and Water, New Photoworks

11/7/2008 - 12/8/2008

T: 202.328.0088
W: www.marshamateykagallery.com

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Exhibition, "Rock and Water: New Photoworks by Athena Tacha", November 7 - December 18.

Free

FOTOGATE … as seen from ‘our world’

11/8/2008 - 12/1/2008

T: 202.338.4488
W: www.watergategalleryframedesign.com

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Reception on Thursday, Nov 13 6:00-9:00PM.
KNEW gallery is curating Watergate Gallery's first foray into photography and a continuation of a successful showing of photography at KNEW Gallery. A group show featuring photographs printed on fabric as exotic scrolls by Trish Simonite from Norwich England, along with work on traditional paper as well as handmade paper by Washington artists Paul Gallegos, Jay Young Gerard, and award winning AnnePelliciotto. The photography show is complemented by sculpture by Washingtonian Karen Feld. Visit www.watergategalleryframedesign.com or www.knewgallery.com. Contact Dale Johnson (202-338-4488) or Fernando Batista (202-413-2687).

Free

Exhibition: Thomas Müller

11/8/2008 - 12/6/2008

T: 202.232.4340
W: www.project4gallery.com

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Utilizing multiple media within his work, Thomas Müller creates analogous relationships between seemingly disparate objects and images. Through these absurd associations he hopes to bring forth essential similarities and accentuate opposites in order to create a visual and conceptual tension. Müllerintends to strip these objects (words, symbols, ideas, materials etc.) down to their own bare essentials, to point to the fragility of “objectness” and the tenuousness of meaning.

Free

Exhibition: Jonathan B. French, Michael Dax Iacovone, & Anne Chan

11/8/2008 - 12/6/2008

T: 202.332.1116
W: www.hamiltoniangallery.com

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Photographers:
- Jonathan B. French
- Michael Dax Iacovone
- Anne Chan

Free

Exhibition: “Vanitas”, Exhibition of Photography & Film. Artists: Nicholas & Sheila Pye

11/8/2008 - 12/20/2008

T: 202.387.1008
W: www.curatorsoffice.com

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In their new body of work, Vanitas, the Pyes explore aspects of mortality, narcissism and the solitary journey that every individual must take through life. Focusing on the individual rather then a couple, the artists isolate and shift the focus of their earlier practice from an examination of coupledom to one of the individual by using elements of aloneness, decay, and emptiness. Making thematic and formal references to paintings executed in the vanitas style, the works are reminders of the transient nature of beauty, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death.

Free

Exhibition: Lawrence Schiller

11/8/2008 - 12/20/2008

T: 202.232.0707
W: www.adamsongallery.com

Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday (10:30AM - 5:30PM)

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Opening reception for this show in conjunction with the other galleries in the 1515 Arts Building on November 8th, 2008 from 6:30PM - 8:30PM

Free

Exhibition: Kendall Messick: The Projectionist and Hiroshi Sugimoto: Drive-in Theaters and Portraits

11/8/2008 - 12/20/2008

T: 202.234.5601
W: www.hemphillfinearts.com

Hours:
Tuesday-Saturday 10:00AM – 5:00PM

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“You never know what people have in their basements,” says Kendall Messick, referring to the Shalimar Theatre, a fully functional, faux-vintage, 9-seat movie theatre that Gordon Brinckle, a film projectionist, devoted his life to constructing in his basement. Messick has documented this moving story of one man’s singular vision in The Projectionist, a multimedia installation of photographs, works on paper and documentary film. Messick lived across the street from the Brinckle family as a child in suburban Delaware, and his vague memory of seeing the theatre drew him back there decades later in December 2001. Messick was compelled to both preserve and tell the story of Gordon Brinckle and began documenting Brinckle’s daily life, continuing until his death in 2007. The resulting photographs and documentary film present an eccentric outsider, whose artistic vision for what a movie theatre should be propelled him to create a remarkable body of work. Brinckle’s detailed drawings of theatre designs, floor plans, and blueprints capture his intense fascination with this subject matter. Messick has carefully archived Brinckle’s drawings and presents a selection of them in conjunction with his own photographs.

The photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto included in the exhibition are from his Drive-in Theater series and Portrait series. The portraits, taken in Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum, imbue the wax figures with an eerie sense of life and recall the work of Hans Holbein and Anthony van Dyck. The evocative and otherworldly nature of the drive-in movie theater screens’ glowing white light, seen only because of his long-exposure technique, embody the intangible quality Sugimoto’s work is known for.

Free

Exhibition: “Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968

11/8/2008 - 3/9/2009

T: 202.633.1000

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This exhibition includes unforgettable images that changed a nation, increasing the momentum of the nonviolent movement by raising awareness of injustice and the struggle for equality in the United States. Covering the 12-year period between the Rosa Parks case in 1955-1956 and Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination in 1968, “Road to Freedom” follows such key events as the Freedom Rides of 1961, the Birmingham hosings of 1963, and the Selma-Montgomery March of 1965. This exhibition is presented in coordination with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Free

“Invasion 68 Prague”. Photographs by Josef Koudelka

11/11/2008 - 12/28/2008

T: 202.885.1300
W: www.american.edu/academic.depts/cas/katzen

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Co-sponsored by The Embassy of the Czech Republic, Aperture Foundation, and The Katzen Arts Center at American University. Czech photographer Josef Koudelka witnessed and recorded the military forces of the Warsaw Pact as they invaded Prague in 1968 and crushed emergent Czech reforms. Koudelka’s negatives were smuggled out of Prague into the hands of the Magnum photography agency, and published anonymously in The Sunday Times Magazine under the initials P.P. (Prague Photographer) for fear of reprisal against him and his family. His pictures of the events became dramatic international symbols. In 1969, the "anonymous Czech photographer" was awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal for photographs requiring exceptional courage. The show, organized by Aperture Foundation and co-produced with Magnum Photos, is presented in conjunction with a publication of the same name. The show is comprised of 74 prints and 1 document, and a selection of significant texts from the book. The selection and sequence of the work are done in collaboration with Josef Koudelka.

Free

Photography Exhibit and Reception

11/11/2008 - 12/28/2008

T: 301.951.9441
W: www.waverlystreetgallery.com

Hours:
Tue. - Sat: 12:00PM 6:00PM.
Also open Sunday Nov. 16 and Monday Nov. 17

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Reception to be held Friday, November 14, 6-9:00 PM
Meet featured photographer Joan Rosenstein and see her photographic essay, Architectural Kaleidoscope. Also, view landscapes, portraits and nudes by renowned photographer Lucien Clerque, and photographs by Maurice Asseo, Richard Lasner, Barbara French Pace, Ruth Ward, and Duncan Whitaker.

Free

Exhibition: “Faux/Real” Photographers: Jeanette May and Brady

11/11/2008 - 12/6/2008

T: 301.951.7900
W: www.heinemanmyers.com

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Why do we create faux landscapes that look real? May's work "Flora/Fauna" explores the tension behind our apprehension of wild nature and our need to control it. Robinson's work, "Scenes from Jesusland," reflects the dissonance between the Themepark Industry in Orlando and Christianity at "The Holy Land Experience" as seen in the Bill Maher movie, "Religulous." Color photography. Work is from 2008 by both artists, being shown for the first time at Heineman-Myers Contemporary Art.

Free

Exhibition: “Absolutely Gorgeous” Photographer: David Seymour “Chim”

11/11/2008 - 12/6/2008

T: 301.951.7900
W: www.heinemanmyers.com

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Color photography by David Seymour "Chim" from his series of personalities, such as Sophia Loren, Audrey Hepburn, Kirk Douglas, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Collins, Richard Avedon, Pablo Picasso, Fred Astaire and Givenchy. These images were captured while Chim was on European movie sets in the 1950s.

Free

Exhibition: Temporary Constructions: New Photographs by Stirling Elmendorf and Mark Parascandola

11/12/2008 - 11/23/2008

T: 202.232.3464
E: info@nevinkellygallery.com
W: www.nevinkellygallery.com

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Stirling Elmendorf and Mark Parascandola showcase new photographs highlighting architectural changes over time in Washington, DC and elsewhere by juxtaposing images of contemporary monumental architecture with those of time-worn abandoned structures.

Free

Exhibitions: “Be: There” A Photographic Essay on a Contemporary Lounge by Michael Lang (Main Gallery), “A Different View” by Harvey Kupferberg and Mel Kay (Main Gallery) and “Mixed Media by Savua” (Annex A)

11/12/2008 - 11/23/2008

T: 202.347.2787
W: www.touchstonegallery.com

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Opening Reception: Friday, November 14, 6- 8:30 pm

“Be: There” A Photographic Essay on a Contemporary Lounge by Michael Lang (Main Gallery) Lang has returns to the genre 50 years later with an essay, Be: There, about the Be Bar, a lounge in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, now undergoing a rebirth after the riots of the 1960s.

“A Different View” by Harvey Kupferberg and Mel Kay (Main Gallery)
2 brothers, 2 photographers, 2 different views. Two brothers, Harvey Kupferberg and Mel Kay, have photographed together for over 30 years. They use their artistic talents differently when photographing a potential image. This exhibition is an example of how they see the same view and then express their individual interpretation of that view.

“Mixed Media by Savua” (Annex A) Savua's formative work in photography encompassed landscapes, still lives, infrared photography, and experimental combination printing

Touchstone Gallery has been anartist-owned gallery since 1976. The gallery movedin 1996 to its current spacious location at 7th and D Street, N.W., in downtown Washington. This 3,000-plus square-footlocation isbasedin the center of the art scene.

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Exhibit: “Odysseys and Photographs: Masters from the National Geographic Archives”

11/12/2008 - 1/4/2009

T: 202.857.7588
W: www.ngmuseum.org

Hours:
Open Mondays through Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and
Sundays from 10 a.m.