Coley Brown: Jam Jelly Honey Wild Rice (Gottlund Verlag, 2008)
48 pages with 31 color images
Each with a unique letterpress cover
10 x 13 in.
Edition of 250
SOLD OUT
Nicholas Gottlund: Wild Prayer (Gottlund Verlag, 2009)
16 pages
Black & white offset on newsprint
15 x 22.5 in.
Edition of 1,000
$8
Bertrand Fleuret: Landmasses and Railways (J&L Books, 2009)
208 pages, black & white
6.7 x 9.5 in.
Edition of 1,000
$33
Lucas Blalock: I Believe You Liar (iceberg, iceberg, iceberg, 2009)
36 pages with 25 color illustrations
8 x 8 in.
Edition of 500
$28
Kin Subscription Series Number #2 (These Birds Walk, 2008)
featuring books by Todd Hido, Abner Nolan, Marianne Mueller and Alec Soth
(above: Todd Hido: Ohio and Abner Nolan: Away)
48 pages each
6 x 8 in.
Edition of 800 each
$100 for all four
Ron Jude: Alpine Star (A-Jump Books, 2006)
96 pages with 49 black & white illustrations
8.5 x 6.25 in.
Edition of 500
$20
Nicolai Howalt and Trine Søndergaard: Tree Zone (Hassla, 2009)
32 pages
6.5 x 9.5 in.
Edition of 500
$22
Eric Marth: Sixteen Minor Studies and Closecut Lawns (Medium Rare, 2009)
34 pages and 42 pages, black & white
7 x 7 in.
Edition of 45 each
$7 for both
Mårten Lange: Anomalies (Farewell Books, 2009)
64 pages with 35 black & white illustrations
6 x 8 in.
Edition of 800
$20
Stone Wall on Cappanawalla, 2008 [from "Slí na Boirne"]
© Shane Lavalette
Tomorrow night I’ll be at the Center for Photography at Woodstock celebrating the opening of Photography Now 2009, juried this year by Charlotte Cotton (Curator and Head of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department, Los Angeles County Museum of Art). Along with my own photographs from my project Slí na Boirne, the exhibition will feature work by Alex Aristei, Clint Baclawski, Yijun Liao, Betsy Seder, Lacey Terrell, Stacey Tyrell and Toshihiro Yashiro.
Those of you in the area (or driving distance) should head to Woodstock, NY for a night of good photography and food! Hope to see you there.
Photography Now 2009
June 10th – July 26th, 2009
Center for Photography at Woodstock
Woodstock, NY
Opening reception: Saturday, June 13th from 5-7pm
More info here.
I’m sure some of you have noticed the blog has been rather quiet lately. Well, I’ve been working hard getting work together for a few upcoming exhibitions (more on that soon) and graduating (see above for proof!). Things will be back to their normal pace very shortly, I promise.
In the mean time – for those of you who live in Boston – head over to the Graduating Students Exhibition at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts to see a few photos of mine on display. They’re up until June 5th.
Four Men, Vrindavan, India, 2009
© Shane Lavalette
I just updated my website with a selection of photographs from a new body of work made this year in Vrindavan, India. Take a look if you please.
Untitled #60, Chicago, 2002
© Laura Letinsky
22 divided by 7 approximates the number π, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.
22 is the atomic number of titanium.
There are 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet.
Psalm 22 (22nd in the Book of Psalm in the King James Bible), described by the New American Standard Bible as the “A Cry of Anguish and a Song of Praise”, is the Psalm to which the crucified and dying Jesus makes reference, citing its first verse in Aramaic (Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34).
In the divinatory tarot, there are 22 major arcana cards.
In Jay-Z’s song “22 Two’s”, he rhymes the words ‘too’, ‘to’ and ‘two’, 22 times in the first verse.
The typical (minimum) number of episodes in a season for a television program broadcast on a major American network is 22.
Twenty-Two, Season 2–episode 17 (February 10, 1961) of the 1959-64 TV series The Twilight Zone in which a hospitalized dancer has nightmares about a sinister nurse inviting her to Room 22, the hospital morgue.
In French, “22″ is used as a phrase to warn of the coming of the police (typically “22, v’là les flics !”, “22, here come the cops!”).
f/22 is the largest f-stop (and thus smallest aperture) available on most lenses made for single-lens reflex cameras.
22 is also the number of years I’ve been alive today!
The Sea, 2008 [from "Slí na Boirne"]
© Shane Lavalette
I just updated my website with a small selection of images from the project I worked on over the summer during my residency on the western coast of Ireland. For this body of work, I was recently selected as one of the winners of the Yousuf Karsh Prize in Photography, juried this year by Anne Havinga (Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh Curator of Photographs, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), Leslie Brown (Curator, Photographic Resource Center) and Emily Isenberg (Director, LaMontagne Gallery).
Take a look. More photographs to come.
January 28, 2009 – 8:28 pm
Humble Arts Foundation recently announced their exciting forthcoming publication, The Collector’s Guide to Emerging Art Photography.
The Collector’s Guide is an invite only, unique 180–page source book distributed to collectors, art dealers, gallery directors, photo editors, museum professionals, and independent curators. Published biennially, The Collector’s Guide aims to further Humble’s mission by bridging the gap between ambitious early-career photographers and often-unapproachable photography professionals and art institutions.
Ideally, the 163 photographers featured in this publication will move on to find their work in private collections, represented by reputable galleries and included in group exhibitions. The Collector’s Guide will also serve as a resource for photo editors, helping to attract assignments to featured photographers.
I’m really happy to have been included in the book alongside a great list of other artists. In March, The Collector’s Guide will be offered for free to collectors, art dealers, gallery directors, photo editors, museum professionals, independent curators and press. Otherwise, some copies will be available for purchase.
More information about the book can be found here.
January 5, 2009 – 11:49 am
For the next few weeks, I’ll be traveling in India. The blog will be pretty quiet until I return at the end of the month, at which point I plan to get back to the usual posting and will begin the sale/distribution of Lay Flat. Very exciting.
See you all soon!
January 5, 2009 – 11:26 am
Swimmer, Aspen, CO, 2007
© Shane Lavalette
Daniel Cooney has launched the second installment of his Emerging Photographers Auction. I’m happy to be amongst the great list of photographers who have work for sale this time around:
Juliana Beasley, Timothy Briner, Nina Buesing, Tom Chambers, Megan Cump, Clayton Cotterell, Adrienne De Boer, Matt Eich, Sam Falls, Jon Feinstein, Mark William Fernandes, Amy Finkelstein, Lucas Foglia, Kyle Ford, Chuck Hemard, Oded Hirsch, Whitney Hubbs, Michael Itkoff, Dave Jordano, Christopher La Marca, Nyra Lang, Shane Lavalette, Pixy Liao, Walter Lockwood, Jennifer Loeber, Oz Lubling, Sara Macel, Jay Matthews, John Mann, Eri Morita, Carolyn Monastra, Nik Mirus, Sarah Palmer, Lydia Panas, Toni Pepe, Bradley Peters, Jeffrey Rich, Nadine Rovner, Noel Rodo-Vankeulen and Shen Wei
You can view all of the pieces in the auction here until January 21st, when the auction ends. Place a bid on my piece (the above image) right here.
September 23, 2008 – 6:42 pm
Photolucida’s Critical Mass competition has just opened for registration. If you don’t already know, Critical Mass is a fantastic way to get yourself out there – not to mention the chance of receiving one of the “Book Award” prizes and having a monograph of your work published by Photolucida.
This year, I am absolutely honored to be on the panel of jurors and am looking forward to seeing all of the work that comes in. I urge you all to register.
Registration will remain open until October 6th.
