CPM Announcements for July 12, 2010.

PhotoMidwest News
Volunteers continue to collect information on PhotoMidwest 2010 exhibit venues.  If or when you arrange a venue, please contact Tracy Madison with that information.  This will help avoid duplicate efforts.  If you plan to exhibit but do not have a venue, contact Tracy as well at bmadison@wisc.edu or by calling 577-6254.
 
CPM Quarterly Newsletter
It's time to submit images for the next quarterly newletter. Members may email electronic images directly to donnie.vendetta@gmail.com. All images should be at least 300dpi and will be printed in black and white. For further info contact Donnie.
 

2 - CPM Interest Group Meetings and Calendar.  
 
THIS WEEK 
 
NATURE GROUP:
All those interested in wildlife and nature images are welcome to attend meetings on the second Wednesday of each month. On July 14th at 7 PM, your image must include either fur or feathers. It's time to share animal images. In August the theme is black and white. In the middle of a green summer, can you see black and white images? For more information, contact Gordon at olson99@tds.net.
 
UPCOMING
 
PLASTIC CAMERA GROUP:
The Plastic Camera Group meets the 1st Tuesday of every month at 7 .m. at CPM, and is open to all who may be interested in plastic/toy camera images.  We look at new work, share books/magazines/etc. that feature Holga/Diana/other funky plastic/toy camera imagery, plan exhibits and discuss exhibit possibilities.  We're laid back, don't really follow the rules, and go with the flow.
 
3 - Upcoming Events

Third Thursday
One of the goals of PhotoMidwest is to encourage photographers to show their work.  However, many members have seldom or never exhibited their work for the public. If this sounds like you, we encourage you to attend the Third Thursday program on July 15 at 7 PM where Bill Pielsticker will lead a panel of seasoned exhibitors who will share their experience, offer advice, and answer your questions on organizing and hanging an exhibit.
 
The Art Institute of Chicago: Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
CPM is planning a coach trip to Chicago to visit this exhibition. The trip will be on Saturday 25th September and we envisage leaving Madison around 7:30am to allow a full day to take in the exhibition and allow some free time to enjoy the delights of this wonderful city. We will plan to leave Chicago around 4:30 pm to arrive back around 7pm.
This exhibition of nearly 300 images is the first full retrospective
devoted to Cartier-Bresson in three decades. It includes both his
formally groundbreaking early images and his historically significant post war work-in India and Indonesia during struggles for independence, in China during the revolution, in the Soviet Union following Stalin's death-that redefined the field of photojournalism. More details to follow, including pricing, but this will be on a first come first served basis until the bus is full. CPM members will have priority and a preferential subsidised rate. Each member will be allowed one guest at the same rate.
If you would like to pre register please Email Becky McKenzie at becky@mckenziefam.com We hope you will be able to participate and enjoy what promises to be a wonderful exhibition and a fun day. We also plan to arrange a very pleasant group lunch at the famous Berghoff restaurant for those interested.
 

4 - Current Member Shows   
 
Overture Galleries
Summer Gallery Reception FRI, July 7th from 6 pm to 8 pm.  Refreshments will be served in the Promenade Lounge on the 2nd floor for Galleries I, II, & III.  The Playhouse Gallery will also hold a reception at this date & time on the Lower Level.
 
Overture Galleries are free and open to the public, and are sponsored in part by DeWitt, Ross & Stevens Law Firm.  Gallery hours: Monday through Thursday from 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m., Friday from 9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m., Saturday from 10:30 a.m. - 9:00p.m., and Sunday from 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. 
 
"Landscapes and Mindscapes"  A show by John Riggs and StarLight Tews, will be at the Overture Center's Playhouse Gallery from July 2nd through Sept. 30th, 2010.  We will have an opening reception on Friday July 9th from 6 PM - 8 PM.
StarLight Tews and John Riggs, two Madison-based photographers, team up  to explore the dynamic interrelationship between events of the mind and vistas of the world as received through the eye. By contrasting the subjective and objective,  the feminine and masculine, the inner vision with the outer, the viewer is given an opportunity to experience the possibility of apparently opposing world views.
 
Fast Forward: Rephotographing the work of Henry Hamilton Bennett 
by Bill Pielsticker and B. Tracy Madison Opening at the H.H. Bennett Studio Monday, June 21 with a reception from 4-7 p.m. The Studio, a Wisconsin Historical Society museum is at 215 Broadway in downtown Wisconsin Dells. Pielsticker and Madison have been rephotographing the landscapes Bennett loved and photographed in and around the Wisconsin River dells between 1875 to his death in 1908. The exhibit is a collection of 15 paired images: the historical photo shot by Bennett between 1886 and 1905 and the same landscape as it appears today. Below is "Leaping the Chasm", one of Bennett's most iconic images, paired with the contemporary image.

Following the reception is a fundraiser for the museum. See the magnificent upper dells of the Wisconsin River from the water on the evening of the summer solstice and support the H.H. Bennett Studio. This fundraising event will be held on a charter boat (courtesiy of Dells Boat Tours) and will include brats, beer and other excellent food (courtesy of Chula Vista Resort). The boat will leave from the Drinker Dock on River Road (downtown Wisconsin Dells) at 7 pm. All proceeds from the event will benefit the H.H. Bennett Studio. Tickets are $40 and are available at the H.H. Bennett Studio.

Nutria Queens Photography Exhibition
Jessie Eisner-Kleyle
Center for Photography at Madison Steenbock Gallery at the Wisconsin
A traveling portrait exhibition by photographer Jessie Eisner-Kleyle will open at The Center for Photography at Madison Steenbock Gallery on June 21. This exhibition is composed of portraits of southwest Louisiana beauty queens in their off-stage and post-crown lives. Inspired by a 1996 article about Bronwen Lalande, a queen from Cameron, LA and champion nutria skinner, Eisner-Kleyle explores the unique and varied ways that femininity is embodied in the women from her Southern home, and how they balance a fantasy-based female ideal with the reality of being a woman. Jessie Eisner-Kleyle is an award-winning and internationally exhibited artist and currently
teaches photography for the University of Wisconsin.
 
A reception will be held on Friday, June 25 from 5-8pm at the Steenbock Gallery, which is located at the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters º offices at 1922 University
Avenue. The exhibition will run through July 30.