The Jeu de Paume, will open a retrospective showcasing the photographs of Berenice Abbott. She came from Ohio but visited Paris in 1921 and apprenticed with Man Ray. In 1926 she opened her own studio where she made portraits of James Joyce, André Gide, Djuna Barnes, Jean Cocteau, etc. Abbott acquired 1,400 of Parisian documentary photographer, Eugène Atget's glass negatives, and 7,800 prints and sold them to the Museum of Modern Art in 1968.

In 1929 she visited New York intending to return to Paris, but instead, she began a project called Changing New York, which was subsidized by the Federal Art Project. She photographed buildings and this is what will be the centerpiece of the Jeu de Paume Paris show.

Some of what's new:

* The GUI with many new functions
* B&W wide AND narrow gamut
* The printer driver has been completely re-written and is more accurate

Visit Colorbytesoftware for a thorough explanation and examination of ImagePrint 9.

Through January 7, 2012

John Loengard's newest book - and the basis for this eponymous exhibition - Age of Silver, is the ode to the art form to which he has dedicated his life. Contained within its pages, and on exhibition, are Loengard's portraits and expressive candids of many of the most important photographers of the last half-century - Leibovitz, Avedon, Eisenstaedt, Cartier-Bresson, Salgado, Benson and many, many others.

Leica Gallery
In the Oskar Barnack Room
670 Broadway
New York City 10012

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Cecil Beaton photographs of Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn to go on show at the Museum of the City of New York Oct 25 through Feb 20.

From the Museum of the City of New York web site:
From the 1920s through the ‘60s, Manhattan’s artistic and social circles embraced British-born photographer and designer Cecil Beaton (1904-80). Cecil Beaton: The New York Years brings together extraordinary photographs, drawings, and costumes by Beaton to chronicle his impact on the city’s cultural life. Beaton’s relentless energy and curiosity spurred him to pursue new fields, from fashion and portrait photography to costume and scenic design for Broadway, ballet, and opera, and to put his own aesthetic stamp on each of these endeavors.

Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
New York, NY 10029

International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street
New York, NY 10036

"Like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Mr. Erwitt has been a seeker of the 'decisive moment,' an instant in real time when people, animals or objects appear before the camera in surprising and illuminating ways. What distinguishes Mr. Erwitt's work has been his keen eye for the comedy in everyday life."
—The New York Times

International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street
New York, NY 10036

Ruth Gruber, Photojournalist celebrates the life, vision, and heroic tenacity of one of the 20th century's great humanitarians and photojournalists. Born in 1911 to Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn, Gruber was the youngest PhD in the world when she became the first journalist to travel to the Soviet Arctic and Siberian Gulag, in 1935. A celebrated author, lecturer, and intrepid correspondent, Gruber was appointed by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes in 1941 to report on conditions in the Alaska Territory. She captured some of the earliest color images of Alaska's vast frontier, lives and customs of the native population, and conditions and experiences of American soldiers. In 1944, during the Second World War, Gruber stewarded the ship Henry Gibbins on a secret U.S. government mission that brought nearly 1,000 Jewish refugees from Europe to the U.S. Gruber subsequently shifted her attention to the lives of refugees and to issues of rescue, sanctuary, and liberation. In 1947, Gruber's iconic photographs documenting the harrowing voyage of Exodus 1947—a ship carrying Jewish refugees attempting to break the British blockade on immigration to Palestine—were sent to wire services throughout the world and significantly impacted perceptions of the plight of Jews seeking to enter Palestine. Organized by Adjunct Curator Maya Benton, and drawn from Gruber's private archive, this exhibition includes never-before-seen color photographs and vintage prints, made over more than half a century, on four continents, alongside contemporary prints made from her original negatives. Gruber is a recipient of the 2011 ICP Infinity Awards Cornell Capa Award.

It was sold to a private, anonymous collector from Asia.

The camera was one of about 25 prototypes made in 1923, two years before the celebrated German brand went into commercial production.

The previous world record was set last year when a collector paid 732,000 euros for a daguerreotype, the world's first commercially produced camera, which bore the rare signature of its French inventor.

Phase One has launched Media Pro, an updated and rebranded digital asset management app based on Microsoft Expression Media. It handles photos, videos and multimedia, and various storage types, like hard drives, DVDs and shared folders, with offline workflow. It bypasses an old barrier of 128,000 files per catalog, and can cope with an unlimited number of catalogs. Images can be added via drag and drop, and keyworded, browsed, rotated, cropped, resized and magnified, with search and annotation support. Catalogs can be archived, published as a slideshow or web gallery and distributed as a contact sheet or print.

Other additions include non-destructive editing using the engine of Phase One's RAW processing tool, Capture One, with which it works in tandem as changes to images from Capture One appear in Media Pro. The two apps exchange ratings, tags and metadata, with XMP support. An option exists to switch from Capture One's rendering engine to Core Image processing on the Mac, or Windows Imaging Components on Windows.

Media Pro's interface is likewise based on Capture One, focusing on photo management and supporting video. It also allows for audio, text, fonts and HTML files.

RAW file support covers most of the major cameras from Canon, Nikon, Leaf, Pentax, Olympus, Sony and Mamiya, totaling over 100 in all. The app can batch-process and tag thousands of images, and offers scripting support for repetitive tasks.

On a Mac Media Pro requires an Intel processor, 2GB of RAM and Mac OS 10.5.8 or 10.6.6. Windows requirements are a Pentium 4, 2GB of RAM and Windows XP SP3, Vista SP2 or 7 SP1. Media Pro normally costs $200, although a $60 upgrade is available for Expression Media 2 owners, and a $70 option is accessible to users of iView Media Pro/Expression Media 1.

April 13 - June 30, 2011

At the Amador Gallery, “Japan Today” is an exhibition which brings together the work of three prominent contemporary Japanese photographers: Taiji Matsue, Osamu Kanemura and Mikiko Hara. The exhibition presents each of their distinct approaches to capturing the unique character of Japan, its land and its people.

Osamu Kanemura embeds himself within the dense makeup of Tokyo, using the conventions of black and white street photography to novel ends by letting the layers of dense electrical and telecommunications wires to feature centrally within the series "My Name is Shockhammer". These stark images, whose tonal contrasts appear formally alluring and intricate, depict unfamiliar views of Japan that connect to one another through the dense network of wires that chaotically stream throughout them. The photos are thereby visually networked to one another in a manner analogous to the invisible electrical and communications networks that these wires create within the city itself.

Mikiko Hara’s work, from her book “Hysteric Thirteen” uses a snap-shot aesthetic to give her color images of urban life a casual appearance that contrasts with the ominous tensions legible in the faces and character of her subjects. Hara’s often bleached out, pastel pallet has a startlingly noirish allure. The figures, usually women, appear unknowable and distant; they are never fully accessible to the camera’s penetrating gaze. These ambiguous individuals create a startling sense of alienation that courses throughout the images and though never looking at the camera, the people seem aware that they are being watched, whether by Hara or by more sinister social forces.

Taiji Matsue’s JP-22 series refers to the 22nd prefecture of Japan, the Shizuoka region. Matsue uses the formal characteristics of color photography to great effect by framing sections of this visually diverse region from a greatly elevated viewpoint. The camera obliterates the horizon line ensconcing the viewer within an abstracted section of the landscape. The stunning details of these aerial vignettes are put in tension with the abstract patterns which emerge in them whereby the bustle of a dense urban neighborhood appears ordered within the grid structure of city streets and plots of farmland appear like assemblies of askew fractals and abstract quadrilaterals.

Above text from the Amador Gallery website.

Amador Gallery
The Fuller Building
41 E 57 Street 6 Fl
New York, NY 10022

Until May 8, 2011

From the ICP website:
The Mexican Suitcase will for the first time give the public an opportunity to experience images drawn from this famous collection of recovered negatives. In December 2007, three boxes filled with rolls of film, containing 4,500 35mm negatives of the Spanish Civil War by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and Chim (David Seymour)—which had been considered lost since 1939—arrived at the International Center of Photography. These three photographers, who lived in Paris, worked in Spain, and published internationally, laid the foundation for modern war photography. Their work has long been considered some of the most innovative and passionate coverage of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). Many of the contact sheets made from the negatives will be on view as part of the exhibition, which will look closely at some of the major stories by Capa, Taro, and Chim as interpreted through the individual frames. These images will be seen alongside the magazines of the period in which they were published and with the photographers' own contact notebooks. The exhibition is organized by ICP assistant curator Cynthia Young.

International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street
New York, NY 10036

Through February 26, 2011

Leica Gallery
670 Broadway
New York, NY 10012
212.777.3051

Tues.-Sat. 12-6

360 pages
Editions Hazan, Paris; 16th edition (December 7, 2010)

From amazon.com:

Product Description
André Kertész (1894–1985) is one of the most original and celebrated of photographers of the 20th century. He was a founder of the modernist photography that originated in the European avant-garde movements of the 1920s, and although his lifelong unwillingness to compromise his independence and his creation of "photographic poetry" made him an almost marginal figure for most of his life, his influence on the development of photography, particularly photojournalism, during the middle years of the century was profound.

This comprehensive book accompanies a major retrospective exhibition of Kertész’s work at Paris’s Jeu de Paume Museum (also visiting several other European venues including Winterthur, Berlin, and Budapest). The text is organized around the three main periods of Kertész’s seventy-year-long career: Budapest, 1914–25; Paris, 1925–36; and New York, 1936–85. Each section of the text includes an illustrated historical analysis, a portfolio of works, and notes on particular elements of Kertész’s style and practice. Many rare vintage and period prints produced under the photographer’s control are reproduced to highest standards in this beautiful book, reflecting the visual quality of this exceptional body of compelling and poetic images.

About the Author
Michel Frizot is Director of Research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris, and teaches at the École du Louvre. Annie-Laure Wanaverbecq is artistic director of the Maison Doisneau, Gentilly, and lectures on the history of photography at the École du Louvre.

Christmas has come early for many of us who use Capture One. Phase One released version 6 and it is a doozie of an upgrade from version 5. Capture One software has always beat the competition with regard to quality, but now it delivers both quality and functionality - even to the most discriminating photographer.

Here is the press release but jump over to the Phase One website for the videos.

COPENHAGEN, December 1, 2010 — Phase One today released Capture One 6, its most advanced professional raw conversion and image editing software. Its incredible flexibility ensures the utmost in creative control, while delivering uncompromising image quality.

Capture One 6 converts raw digital image files from professional digital medium format systems and more than 170 different digital camera models into the most beautiful photographs. Based on the world’s most advanced image processing engine, Capture One Pro 6 supports a comprehensive digital workflow with opportunities to capture, convert, organize, edit, share and print images with excellent color and detail rendition.

Capture One Pro 6 has been built to support an upcoming iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch application called Capture Pilot(TM) that will allow you to wirelessly view, zoom in on, and pan high resolution RAW, JPEG and TIFF images from leading DSLR and medium format camera systems.

A few of the new features in Capture One Pro 6:- Local adjustments – edit selected areas of images non-destructively;
- Black and white conversion -- precisely adjust color channels to create split toning effects when converting to grayscale;
- Keystone correction -- reduces or eliminates perspective distortion while maintaining dimension integrity;
- High-quality, simple to use printing options.

Also available in Capture One Express 6:
The basic version of Capture One is now called Capture One Express. It is a complete yet simplified raw workflow software, ideal for enthusiast photographers. It shares many of the new features in Capture One Pro 6, such as:
- Enhanced metadata support including XMP sync, Auto Load and a GPS link to Google Maps(TM);
- A Loupe tool, which is a powerful magnifier to zoom into an image from 25 to 200 percent;
- Integrated movie import, viewing and handling;
- Search and filter that makes it easy to find, sort and organize images on the fly;
- Advanced, token-based file naming;
- Native 64-bit operation and OpenCL/GPU acceleration for substantially improved performance.

For a complete list of all new features, please see http://www.phaseone.com/features

For a comparison between Capture One Express 6 and Capture One Pro 6 please see: www.phaseone.com/comparison.

Strong Camera Support Backed by Experience
Phase One’s sole focus is photography. As the leading maker of professional medium format camera systems, it is known for its technical innovation and long-term experience in helping the world’s top photographers to achieve the highest possible image quality.

Besides supporting Phase One and selected Leaf and Mamiya medium format cameras, Phase One has developed tailor-made camera profiles in Capture One to support more than 170 different digital camera models, including those from Canon, Epson, Fuji, Konica, Minolta, Leica, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, Ricoh and Sony.

Capture One 6 adds support for Canon 60D and S95. For a complete list of supported camera systems, please see http://www.phaseone.com/camerasupport

Availability and Pricing
Capture One 6 for Mac and for Windows is commercially available in two versions: Capture One Express 6 and Capture One Pro 6.

Capture One Pro 6 is available via download for 399 USD and 299 EUR through Phase One’s Online Store www.phaseone.com/store and through leading professional photography dealers worldwide. Capture One Express 6 is available for 129 USD and 99 EUR via www.phaseone.com/store. Capture One Pro 6 and Express 6 are paid upgrades to previous versions of Capture One. Upgrade prices start at 69 USD and 49 EUR.

The Capture Pilot(TM) application will be free, and Phase One will advise when it is available for download.

Please visit Phase One’s Online Store www.phaseone.com/store for other upgrade options.

About Phase One
Phase One is the world’s leader in open-platform based medium format camera systems and solutions. Phase One medium format cameras, digital backs and lenses are designed to deliver superior quality image capture and investment value. Phase One’s Capture One software helps streamline capture and post-production processes for both medium format and digital cameras. Phase One products are known for their quality, flexibility and speed enabling pro photographers shooting in a wide range of formats to achieve their creative visions without compromise. For more information, please visit Phase One at http://www.phaseone.com. Follow Phase One on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/PhaseOneWW

Phase One is an employee-owned company based in Copenhagen with offices in New York, London, Tokyo, Cologne and Shanghai.

Phase One and Capture One are registered trademarks of Phase One A/S. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

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From the Metropolitan Museum of Art website:

This exhibition features three giants of photography—Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864–1946), Edward Steichen (American, b. Luxembourg, 1879–1973), and Paul Strand (American, 1890–1976)—whose works are among the Metropolitan's greatest photographic treasures. The diverse and groundbreaking work of these artists will be revealed through a presentation of approximately 115 photographs, drawn entirely from the collection.

Alfred Stieglitz, a photographer of supreme accomplishment as well as a forceful and influential advocate for photography and modern art through his gallery "291" and his sumptuous journal Camera Work, laid the foundation of the Met's collection. He donated twenty-two of his own works in 1928—the first photographs to be acquired by the Museum as works of art—and more than six hundred by other photographers, including Steichen and Strand, in later decades. Featured in the exhibition will be portraits, city views, and cloud studies by Stieglitz, as well as numerous images from his composite portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887–1986), part of a group selected for the collection by O'Keeffe herself.

Stieglitz's protégé and gallery collaborator Edward Steichen was the most talented exemplar of Photo-Secessionist ideas, with works such as his three large variant prints of The Flatiron and his moonlit photographs of Rodin's Balzac purposely rivaling the scale, color, and individuality of painting. By contrast, the final issue of Camera Work (1917) was devoted to the young Paul Strand, whose photographs from 1915–1917 treated three principal themes—movement in the city, abstractions, and street portraits—and pioneered a shift from the soft-focus Pictorialist aesthetic to the straight approach and graphic power of an emerging modernism.