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The Photo Review Benefit AuctionAUCTION TO BENEFIT THE PHOTO REVIEW, Vintage and Contemporary Work by an International Who’s Who of Photography Up for Bid

LANGHORNE, PA–The Photo Review, a critical journal of photography, will hold its Annual Benefit Auction on Saturday, October 11, 2014, at 7 p.m. at Hamilton Hall, University of the Arts at Broad and Pine Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The event will feature an international slate of photographers as well as a host of Philadelphia artists. Beginning and experienced collectors alike will have the opportunity to bid on work by such historic masters as Charles Aubry, Édouard Baldus, Antonio Beato, Charles Bierstadt, Karl Blossfeldt, Samuel Bourne, Brassaï, Anne Brigman, Edward S. Curtis, Madame D’Ora, Baron De Meyer, Frank Eugene, Frederick Evans, Arnold Genthe, Mario Giacomelli, Elias Goldensky, F. Jay Haynes, William Henry Jackson, Inge Morath, Wm. Notman & Son, Ruth Orkin,Edward Steichen, Josef Sudek, Isaiah West Taber, Wilhelm von Gloeden, and Stanislaw Walery.

Among the contemporary photo stars whose work will go on the block are Mariette Pathy Allen, Bill Bernstein, Gay Block, Andrew Borowiec, Douglas Busch, Barbara Crane, Jeff Curto, Bruce Davidson, John Dugdale, Chris Earnshaw, James Fee, Harold Feinstein, Fran Forman, Joy Goldkind, Lois Greenfield, Robert Hirsch, Michael Kenna, David Lebe, Helen Marcus, Joe Mills, Sebastião Salgado, Lynn Saville, Aline Smithson, Harvey Stein, George Tice, Hiroshi Watanabe, and Dimitris Yeros.

Featured local luminaries include Justyna Badach, Andrea M. Baldeck, John J. Carlano, Paul Cava, Paula Chamlee, Gerald Cyrus, Sandra C. Davis, Edmund Eckstein, Susan Fenton, Larry Fink, David Graham, Catherine Jansen, Bruce Katsiff, Andrea Modica, Stuart Rome, Laurence Salzmann, Thomas John Shillea, Michael A. Smith, Christine Welch, William Earle Williams, and Stanley Wulc.

In addition, a broad range of 19th-century and vernacular photographs is up for bid, including one of H. A. Atwell‘s famous circus photographs. According to The Photo Review editor Stephen Perloff, prices will range from $50 to $7,000. A silent auction, concurrent with the live auction, will feature photography equipment and supplies, museum memberships, theater tickets, books, certificates for photo classes, restaurant meals, etc. Lodima Archival Materials has provided matting for Photo Review auction items.

The Photo Review will present Project Basho with The 2014 Photo Review Award for Services to the Field of Photography, at a reception from 6 to 7 p.m. on October 11, immediately preceding the auction.

A preview will be held at the University of the Arts on Friday, October 10, from 11 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and on Saturday, October 11 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., just prior to the auction. Proceeds from the auction, a popular event since 1981, fund such activities as an annual juried competition for emerging photographers. The auction will also feature an open bar and live jazz by the Julian Hartwell Trio. Admission is $20 general, $15 students and includes the fully illustrated catalog. The catalog is also available through The Photo Review, 215-891-0214. Buyers may preview the live and silent auction online and place bids at http://www.photoreview.org/auction.htm.

The Photo Review

“Founded in 1976, The Photo Review is a critical journal of photography that covers events around the world and serves as a central resource for the Mid-Atlantic region. The quarterly journal contains reviews, portfolios, interviews, book reviews, and news, while the companion newsletter, issued eight times a year, contains the most complete exhibition listings from New York to Washington, DC, and northern Virginia, and now also California, and exhibition opportunities and news from around the world. Subscriptions are $45 a year.”

PHOTO AUCTION TO BENEFIT THE PHOTO REVIEW

  • What:  Annual Benefit Auction In support of The Photo Review
  • When:  Saturday, October 11, 2014 at 7 p.m. Auction admission with purchase of catalogue ($20).
  • Where: Hamilton Hall, University of the Arts, Broad and Pine Streets, Philadelphia
  • Featuring: 240 photographs by an international slate of photographers
  • Price range:  $50 to $7,000
  • Preview:  Friday, October 10, from 11 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Saturday, October 11, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. (prior to auction)
  • Catalog:  Fully illustrated catalog available for $12.
  • On-line:  Preview or bid at www.photoreview.org.
  • Proceeds:  Support activities of The Photo Review, including the annual juried competition for emerging photographers.
  • Contact: Stephen Perloff:  215-891-0214, info@photoreview.org, www.photoreview.org.

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Get Ugly

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Ugly Apparel, Local Artist Kelly Meissner Releases Clothing Line with Funding from Local Organization for Innovation in the Arts

Ugly Apparel has an innovative and eclectic fashion collection for those looking to experience the way that tattoos enhance the human form or set off their current ink.

The Philadelphia-based company is the quirky brainchild of Kelly Meissner, a University of the Arts graduate and former tattoo artist, who was looking to push the sartorial limits with new design and original techniques. She started with regular T-shirt prints, then decided to experiment with placements and practice, combining her love of inventive design and the personal self-expression found in tattoos. Soon, her T-shirts evolved into a clothing line that combined quirky aesthetic, innovative design, and environmentally friendly materials.

Kelly started designing T-shirt’s for Kotis Design, an apparel decoration company based in Seattle Washington. The more she learned about apparel decoration processes, the more she wanted to push the limits. She began working with printers and manufacturers to expand the limitations of printing on sleeves. Together, they made it possible for her to combine her experience as a tattoo artist with her clothing designs and Ugly Apparel was born.

Since its inception, Ugly Apparel has been involved in local fashion and manufacturing incubator projects that blend street style with ethical fashion creations.

The company recently launched a Kickstarter campaign [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ugly/ugly-apparel-manufacturing] to pursue producing sleeve wraps and tees at quantities that will allow it to sell them at reasonable retail prices. This funding also will allow the new designs to be manufactured in Philadelphia, as well as enable Ugly Apparel to continue its mission of creating sustainable clothing using environmentally friendly materials.

Incentives for contributing to Ugly Apparel’s Kickstarter campaign include sticker packs, exclusive tees, and prototypes from the knitwear and house wears that are in development as incentives for funding the expansion of the line.

Ugly Apparel has partnered with, and is sponsored by, the creative minds at The Corzo Center for the Creative Economy, Wells Fargo, and Yards Brewing.

For more about Ugly Apparel, visit www.gottagetugly.com.

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The Alchemist

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Francis Tucker, The Alchemist, Memorial Art Show at University of the Arts

The Alchemist, Francis Tucker Memorial Art Show at the University of the Arts

Francis Courtland Tucker, The Alchemist, Exhibition of Paintings

Monday, November 4, 2013 to Friday, December 20, 2013, President’s Office Gallery Hamilton Hall The University of the Arts, 320 S Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pa 19102

Opening Reception: Monday, November 4, 2013
5:00-7:00 pm
Presidents Office Gallery
320 S Broad Street

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The Alchemist refers to Tucker’s deep knowledge of the science of making art. He taught art students how to make their own gesso with rabbit skin glue, how to grind and make their own paints, how to stretch canvas, the chemistry of mixing painting mediums like oil and turpenoid, how to clean paint brushes, how to make frames and how to be an artist.

Tucker was a special friend to me since he was one of my first art professors at the Philadelphia College of Art back in the early 70s. I was working for the phone company during the day and taking art classes at night. One of my favorite memories of that time is when I took a painting class with him in the Atlantic Building on Broad Street. I carefully, laboriously sketched out my composition with pencil on the canvas. Tucker let me finish the drawing then came to me and began erasing away my drawing. I was in shock. He then punched me in the arm, kind of hard, and said, “This is a painting class!” A lesson I’ve never forgotten and often share with others.

Tucker permitted me to visit him on his death bed, he was curled in a fetal position with oxygen tubes tangled around him, and we talked about the old days of partying at PCA. He allowed, encouraged, us to drink wine and beer in night classes. He knew we were all workers and needed a little liquid relaxation to loosen up. Until one day we forgot to get rid of the empty wine bottles and we all got in trouble. In our last moments together he said he was so frustrated that he had finally felt he had mastered his art only to have his body fail on him.

When I was a young man he told me if I wanted to be an artist I had to dedicate myself to it no matter what. But I was making good money at a boring job, so, I tried to do both. Looking back I now understand his lesson: do what you love and the money will take care of itself. I miss you Tucker and think of you everyday as I walk past your home on Fitler Square with Katy the Art Dog.

LoVe, DoN

Written by DoN Brewer. Photograph of Francis Tucker with his dog Slaughter provided by his daughter, Kathy Longwith.

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