CPM Announcements for July 21, 2010.
1 -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.
LANDSCAPE GROUP:
Next meeting: Thursday, July 22, 7:00 pm. Topic: "Current projects". Bring 3-4 images of work representing projects you are currently working on, previews of work you plan to show during Photo Midwest, or some new directions your photography is taking. The theme should be landscape photography in the broad sense of the word.
Topic for August 26 meeting: Pheasant Branch images. Bring images from our field outing to the Pheasant Branch Conservancy that you took last month. There's still time to photograph the conservancy between not and the meeting, so if you missed the field shoot, make plans to visit there sometime between now and the August meeting. Bring 3-4 photos of only conservancy images.
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.
NATURE GROUP:
All those interested in wildlife and nature images are welcome to attend meetings on the second Wednesday of each month. On August 11th at 7 PM, the theme is black and white. In the middle of a green summer, can you see black and white images? In September, the topic will be "What I shot on my summer vacation." For more information, contact Gordon at olson99@tds.net.
3 - Upcoming Events
The Art Institute of Chicago: Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century <Date Change>
CPM is planning a coach trip to Chicago to visit this exhibition. The trip will be on Sunday 19th 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
"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.
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.
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.
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.