Bay Area Photologgers

7/19 BAP Evening Gathering

It's a Tuesday night in July and you  want to get together and talk shop with other Bay Area Photobloggers, so please come to Crossroads Cafe (pics here, review here, map here) and join us at 7pm!

Heather's in, I'm in; if you're in, leave a comment, eh?

Photography, Off-screen

Some interesting photo exhibits around downtown San Francisco:

Ongoing through July 22nd, 2005... Sixth Street Photography Workshop - Stories of the City will be shown at two locations by the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, the SF Public Library, and the Sixth Street Photo Workshop.

Ongoing through July 2, 2005... at the Robert Koch Gallery, Paris During the Second Empire: 1852-1870 features the work of Charles Marville, Edouard-Denis Baldus, Camille Dolarol, A.A.E. Disderi, Julien Villeneuve, Gustave Le Gray, Bisson Freres, and Louis-Emile Durandelle.

Ongoing through September 06, 2005... the SFMoMA  presents Taking Place: Photographs from the Prentice and Paul Sack Collection, 285 "vintage photographs chronicling the history of photography and examining the relationship between people and environment."

Opening night for Bay Area Now 4 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on Friday, July 15, 8pm to 11 pm. $10-$12 general admission for the reception. Okay it's not free, but the Yerba Buena shindigs make for a fun evening of art in all mediums as well as people watching.

NPR on police harassment of photographers

There was a story (audio online):

Photographers Becoming Security Concerns by Joel Rose

Morning Edition, June 16, 2005 · Photographers across the country have complained of getting harassed by law enforcement officials citing security concerns since the September 11 terrorist attacks.

There is a link on the story's page to Kevin Bjorke's Photopermit.org.

BAP E-mail Lists

Following-up on last night's presentation at the Apple Store, here are the two posts that refer to the BAP email lists:

BAP Discussion List
BAP Announcement List

NYT on Burnett's Camera Bag

Great piece in the NYT today about David Burnett, who used a 4x5 Speed Graphic camera on the campaign trail last year.  At the soon-to-close exhibit of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs at the Haggin Museum in Stockton (recommended), many of the shots from the 50s were taken with this kind of camera.  Oh, and Burnett uses a Holga, too.  Check out his award-winning shots of the Olympics that he took with the antique.

Three Links

NYC Photobloggers have a write-up on Larry Towell's multimedia Magnumtravaganza.  It's worth the click (and bandwidth).  Lots of memorable photos from El Salvador and of Mennonites, with Towell doing the voiceover.  In fact, all of the Magnum Flash presentations could be of interest.

Also, World Press Photo has a new zine called Enter.

And there's a photo event on June 19th in San Francisco.  Photographs by Karen Ande of AIDS in Africa, at the church at 100 Diamond St in the Castro.  1-3 PM.  If you'd like to meet-up, let me know, I'll be there indeed.