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NEWS 6 NOTES The Corcoran Gallery of Art has been are being shown at the Union Gallery, phers includes Fay Godwin, Simon awarded at grant of $20,740 from the San Jose State University, San Jose. Marsden, John Blakemore, Ken Baird, National Historic Publications and Re- Thomas Joshua Cooper, Paul Joyce, cords Commission (NHPRC) to pro- PHOTOGRAPHY and others, sponsored by the Arts mote the development of the Corco- Council of Great Britain. For catalog, ran's archives. In January 1980, with Garlic Press, P.O. Box 24799, Los write to Museum of Art, WSU, Pull- a first grant, the Corcoran created the Angeles, CA 90024 offers art photo- man, WA 99164. Archives for the collection and preser- graphy mailing lists, covering museums vation of records which document the and galleries in the U.S. and in foreign The latest world record for a single 110-year heritage of the largest private countries, as well as lists of art photo- photograph is Ansel Adams' Moonrise, museum and school of art in Washing- graphy book publishers and art photo- Hernandez, New Mexico, recently pur- ron, DC. graphy periodicals. For more informa- chased by television producer, Burt During the first year, records orga- tion, write them for price list. Sugarman, for $71,500, from G. Ray nized were the Director's Correspon- Hawkins. art dealer. dence 1908-1968, exhibition files Portfolio: A Contemporary Education- 1907-1976, and gallery catalogs 1874- al Photography Magazine (no. 3) was Harry Callahan and Lee Friedlander 1980. This year, the staff will assem- issued in the Fall 1980 by Greg received Annual Peer Awards in Crea- ble the gallery's photographs and con- Holmes and Martin Wolin Jr. Included tive Photography by the Friends of tinue to inventory and catalog its pa- is Xerography by Harold Goodman, Photography in New York City. Calla- pers. The Archives is open to the pub- articles about photographic education han won Distinguished Career in Pho- lic free of charge and exhibitions of by Don Fike and Roger Arrandale-Wil- tography award and Friedlander won archival material are on display in the liams, and a gallery of photographic the Photographer of 1980 award. Gallery. work of the 80s. Available for $4.00 from P.O. Box 265, Redlands, CA Read "Louis-Amedee Mante: Inven- ALTERNATIVE MEDIA 92373. $14.00 for 4 consecutive tory of Color Photography?" by A. S. issues. Godeau in the JanuarylFebruary issue of VEC Audio Editions offers audio Portfolio which involves new research cassettes in numbered editions of Photo-Fomm from New Zealand implying that a little-known French- 150 for $10.00 each including Rea- features for August 1980 photographs man may have perfected the auto- dings by John M. Bennett, Sound of an by Paul Hewson, Bruce Attwell, Evan chrome 9 years before its official Unsound Mind by Rod Summers, Cameron, Glenn Jowitt, Sheridan invention. Mindsound by Bria Burgess, Poems & Keith. ARTISTS & WINE Play by J. Glass jr., Some Small Deaths by Tommy Mew, and Environments Views for Winter 1981 discusses the In the October issue of Los Angeles by Nicola Frangione. Yale University Art Gallery , Dada vs. Magazine, an article featured wine New tides are Futurist Poetry 1913- the Institute, articles about facilities labels designed by artists including 33 read by Piotr Rypson, Sound in Connecticut, a profile of Davis Chagall, Picasso, Warhol, Motherwell, Poems from Marinetti et al by Vittore Pratt at the Fogg and contemporary Dali, Kandinsky, Sam Francis. Baroni; Meet Lt. Murnau, an audio photographs, a review of Connecticut project by Vittore Baroni; and Scratch shows, lengthy book reviews of Eve French wine labels appeared in Symphony , by v.e.c. Write to V.E.C. Arnold's In China and Harry Calla- Novum Gebrauchsgraphik for Decem- Audio, Postbus 1051, 6201BB Maas- han's Color, etc. This is the New Eng- ber 1980. tricht, Netherlands. land Journal of Photography, a publi- cation of the Photographic Resource UMBRELLAS IN THE NEWS A very important article on the care Center. and treatment of Xerox prints has Umbrella Productions has made a 28- been published in the December 1980 "What Qualities does a Good Photo- minute film in 16mm written and issue of Image, a publication of the graph Have?" by Lou Jacobs Jr. directed by Kathy Levitt, which traces George Eastman House, 900 East Blvd. appeared in rhe Sunday Nw York the umbrella from the bazaars of Rochester, NY 14607. Mary K. Porter Times for 8 February. Nepal, down the rivers of Thailand, at has written "Electrophotographic jazz funerals in New Orleans, borne by Prints: Fabrication, Handling and Photograph Gallery opened on queens in Ghana, and used in pagodas Care" which is the first article in lay- Fifth Avenue with a comprehensive in Bali. Vacationing in Santa Monica, man's language to talk about the archi- show of the photographs of the late the umbrella gets picked up for a val qualities and preservation techni- W. Eugene Smith. 724 Fifth Avenue. Hollywood musical, implicated in a ques for Copy Art. London assassination, and then finds ALTERNATIVE SPACES American Images: New Work by itself a surprise guest of honor at Twenty Contemporary Photographers weddings and coronations, coronary is being exhibited at the University of Space Probes, the influences of space explo- surgery and Congressional inquests, Texas in Austin. ration on contemporary art, is a new exhibit finally flying off with the first men to at Nexus, the Third Floor Gallery, in Atlan- the moon. For more information Perspectives on Landscape: Contem- ta, George at 360 Fortune St. It is a Natio- about Umbrella, the film, contact porary British Photographers has star- nal Invitational Exhibition and opened on Kathy Levitt, 1101 Palms Blvd., ted its American tour at the Museum 21 February. It closes on 29 March. Venice, CA 90291. of Art at Washington State University, Selected pieces from the Copy Art and will continue through the U.S. Carolee Schneemann has a new per- Exhibition, curated by Ginny Lloyd, The exhibit of 11 British photogra- formance work which includes the transmogrifications of the umbrella Political Art Documentation/Distribution Art Network, a magazine produced by in the dream caIled Fresh Blood. The is the first newsletter of the group called artists for artists, reflects the increased permutations of the "umbrella" PAD, which is open to ideas about political visibility and vocality of artists in AusrraIia emerge from female sexual experience art and cultural politics. Now a bimonthly, and New Zealand--a forum for Creative and a painterlyhactile signification of it expects to go monthly. $2.00 from PAD, Space, an organizadon devoted to finding body, object and material. Performed c/o Seven Loaves, 605 E. 8th St., New low-cost presentation, rehearsal and work- at the New York Feminist Art Insti- York, NY 10009. space for artists, as well as the Arrworkers tute on 21 February 1981. Union, a national organization which has The PWP Times, published by the Pro- been established for the betterment of GRAFFITI fessional Women Photographers, was issued artists in a culture which has a history of initially in January 1981. Tabloid size- exploiting its creative people. Issue 2, a Horizon for February reported on the newsprint, it includes exhibitions, reviews, Iarge tabloid on newsprint with slick color graffiti wars between New York Mayor Ed- gallery reviews, and essays, profiles of per- cover, features rhe Australians at the ward Koch and the group of artists called sonalities, discussions of meetings. Avail- Venice Biennale, the Artworkers Union National Graffiti Artists, founded by Jack able from Professional Women Photogra- National Report, a review of Performance, Pelsinger, to keep those artists out of the phers, 43 W. 22nd %.,New York City. interviews with Suzi Gablik, a profile of the yards and into studios and workshops. Institute of Modern Art at Brisbane, rev- Art International, although in its 24th year, views of shows, a cross-section of some Art Letter for February 1981 had a special has taken on a new look--compact, pocket- alternative spaces, a review of publishing, report on Graffiti and the Art World, citing size almost, compared to its larger format and a discussion of some art schools. This exhibitions of Graffiti art, while sculptor which prevailed for years. Now it is thick, is a crammed-packed magazine, full of new Henry Chalfont keeps documenting them very, very thick. 6% x 9 inches, this maga- information, information that is central to and having shows, even at O.K. Harris. zine is still worthy of note, both in content an understanding of the art scene "down Media attention included the New York and in price (150 Sw. Fr. for 5 double under", where there is energy and vitality. Times Sunday magazine, the Village issues). We have been informed that the large-size Voice, and High Times, with television tabloid will be replaced with a more com- treatment as well. Presentense, a new periodical from San Jose pact size on better paper. Art ~etwork, Recent shows, showing far more so- Institute of Contemporary Art, is a large- bimonthly, is available for $10 Australian phisticated graffiti art, have been at size tabloid featuring an interview with Ken dollars for individuals and $15 (Aust.) for FashionlModa, the South Bronx alterna- Friedman, a discussion of Sonia Landy She institutions from P.O. Box 139, Broadway, tive gallery; at White Columns, where a ridan's copy art by Diane Kirkparrick, fine Sydney 2007 Ausrralia or from P.O. Box whole mural done by the Fabulous Five, artwork from Scott Miller, Alice Aycock, 9323, Wellington, New Zealand. the group tag for "writers" Lee and Fred, and a diary of the Institute by Janet Tyson.