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Atlanta Celebrates Photography (ACP) supports Atlanta’s emergence as an international center for photography. Through an annual, October festival and year-round programs, ACP seeks to support photographers, educate and engage audiences, promote diverse photography venues, and enrich Atlanta’s culture scene. King Plow Arts Center 887 West Marietta Street, NW Atlanta, GA 30318 Friday, September 23, 2011 Schedule of Events 6:30 p.m. Cocktail Reception, Viewing & Silent Auction 7:30 p.m. Dinner & Live Auction SPONSORS King Plow Arts Center Auctioneer Framing Services donated by Myott Studios Denise Bethel of Sotheby’s Inc. Photographers Catering Joseph Szabo Bold American Events Chip Simone Leonard Freed Technical Kael Alford Lighting & Production Equipment, Inc. Paul Hagedorn Michael Kenna Event Consultant Lucinda Bunnen Corporate Community Outsourcing Stephen Lawson Todd Murphy Art Selection Committee Lauren Greenfield Brett Abbott, Kristen Cahill, Michael Paris Mazzeo Barbara Griffin, Amy Miller, Brett Weston Anna Walker Skillman, David Halliday Angela West, Frank White John Folsom Norman Seeff Peter Bahouth Laura Noel Jason Travis Table Host Host Committee Louis Corrigan Emily Amy Barbara Griffin Susan Bridges Hagedorn Foundation Gallery Sheila Pree Bright Jackson Fine Art Lucinda Bunnen Phyllis & Sydney Rodbell Kristen Cahill Jane Cofer & David Roper Patrons Melanie Davis Susan & Chris Hadorn Anne Dennington Angela West & Phil Sanford Elizabeth Feichter & Frank White Murphy Townsend & Gregor Turk Barbara Griffin Elizabeth Feichter & Frank White Susan & Chris Hadorn Yolanda & Gregory Head Marianne Lambert Barby & Bert Levy Brenda Massie Anne Williams & Myott Jennifer Schwartz Anna Walker Skillman Mary & Drew Stanley Murphy Townsend & Gregor Turk Marcia Wood Artwork framed by Myott Studios is framed in an archival manner with acid free mounts and mats as well as UV protection glass or UV protection plexiglass. Values reflect current retail values plus framing. Special thanks to the Private Wealth Group of Arnall Golden Gregory LLP for hosting the Patron Party and Preview Exhibition. Joseph Szabo Lifeguard’s Dream Date: 1972 Artist Bio Edition: 4 of 25 Joseph Szabo offers haunting teenage portraits of Size: 11 x 14 inches Long Island kids from the Seventies to the Nineties Medium: Gelatin Silver Print represented in Jones Beach, Teenage & Rolling Value: $1,200 Stones Fans. “My general rule was no drugs and Courtesy of: Joseph Szabo and Jackson Fine Art no sex but right on with rock ‘n’ roll,” says Szabo. He captures the bravado, but also the haunting vulnerability and insecurity of teenagers. By turning the lens on his students, he captured their attention and won worldwide recognition from fans including Sofia Coppola (who used his images as an important visual reference in her 1999 debut film The Virgin Suicides). Szabo’s work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennial, the International Center of Photography and the Museum of Modern Art. His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, MoMA and the San Francisco Museum of Art, among many others. Chip Simone Vamp Date: 2005 Artist Bio Size: 12 x 19 inches Chip Simone has been exhibiting photographs Medium: Pigment Print since 1966. His prints are included in the several Value: $2,000 significant collections including the Museum of Courtesy of: Chip Simone Modern Art, The High Museum of Art, The Houston Museum of Fine Art, The Museum of Contemporary “I was bicycling along Peachtree Street looking hard Art of Georgia, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, and at everything I could see when I noticed a sheet of the Sir Elton John Photography Collection. 64 of clear plastic billowing out from a tattered wall. It his color images are currently on display at The was covering a 1940’s style film noir poster featuring High Museum of Art in an exhibition entitled The a sultry blonde right out of Mickey Spillane. I Resonant Image. A companion book “CHROMA” watched as the plastic pulled further away from the has been published by The Nazraeli Press. Simone wall to reveal more and more of the face beneath. is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design The unruly plastic sheet became a billowy silken veil where he studied with the world-renowned and the woman looking from behind it had begun photographer Harry Callahan. a coy game of peek-a-boo with a two-wheeled voyeur.” – Chip Simone Leonard Freed Martin Luther King, Baltimore Date: 1963 Artist’s Bio Size: 16 x 20 inches Leonard Freed (1929 – 2006) became fascinated Medium: Gelatin Silver Print with photography in the 1950’s. When Edward Value: $2,000 Steichen, then Director of Photography at the Courtesy of: Brigitte Freed Museum of Modern Art, learned of Freed’s work, he told him that he was one of the three best young photographers he had seen and bought three of Freed’s photos for the Museum. In 1972, Leonard Freed joined the highly regarded group of Magnum photographers with whom he remained active until his death. He has worked on international assignments for the major international press including: Life, Look, Paris Match, Die Zeist, Der Spiegel, London Sunday Times Magazine, New York Times Magazine, GEO, L’Express, Fortune, etc. Photography became Freed’s way of exploring complex issues such as societal violence and racial discrimination. There are notable books published of his work and he is represented in museum collections worldwide. Kael Alford Fallujah, September 5th, 2003 Date: 2003 Artist Bio Edition: 6 of 40 Kael Alford (b. 1971, Middletown, NY) is a Size: 13 x 19 inches photographer and videographer based in Dallas, Medium: Archival Ink Jet Print on Hahnemuhle Texas. She develops long-term, documentary Photo Rag projects about social or cultural issues often Value: $1,500 misrepresented in popular culture and mass Courtesy of: Kael Alford and media narratives. Her work explores themes of Jennifer Schwartz Gallery political conflict, underrepresented communities, and the eroding human relationship to the natural September 5, 2003, Fallujah. Graffiti marks the environment. Alford was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and a Knight Luce Fellow at USC wall of a police station in the center of Fallujah. A Annenberg. She teaches photography at Southern broken water main floods the street. In 2004, two Methodist University, is represented by Jennifer major U.S. offensives against insurgents left the city Schwartz Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia and Panos in ruins. Kael Alford has traveled to Iraq four times Pictures in London. Her work is included in the High since 2003, photographing among Iraqi civilians and Museum of Art permanent collection and private insurgents. This image is part of the portfolio of 32 collections. images included in the High Museum permanent collection and is included in the book titled “Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq” (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2006). For more details see: www.unembedded.com. Paul Hagedorn Checkmate Date: 2011 Artist Bio Edition: unique Paul Hagedorn, born in 1956, came to photography Size: 30 x 20 inches from years in advertising graphics: the stuff of Medium: Archival digital print on Hahnemuhle paper visceral, immediate effect. His pictures follow with hand-made interactive framing display his early career training and always consist of a Value: $4,200 singular, sweet-spot subject. He built a career on a Courtesy of: Paul Hagedorn and Hagedorn foundation of classical documentary works indexing Foundation Gallery American and Western European cultural icons: the Eiffel Tower, Italian street scenes and southern The suspended toy plane has bottle rockets duct landscapes reminiscent of the Hudson River School, to name a few. These are places in which he found taped on the bottom of the plane (plane was himself and which he could annex, like an image tethered by wires removed in Photoshop). While consumer. the bottle-rocket engines were in full burn, an explosion (my custom made “bunker-buster”) had just detonated. The force of the big explosion heaved up the suspended airplane in such a way that it looks like the pilot had applied full power to the jet engines and was attempting to pull up before crashing into the foreground amid the shock wave of debris. – Paul Hagedorn Michael Kenna Small Trees, Anchorage, Alaska, 1989 Date: 1989 Artist Bio Edition: 10 of 45 Michael Kenna, born in Britian in 1953, initially Size: 7.5 x 7.5 inches aspired to enter the priesthood but his passion for Medium: Sepia Toned Gelatin Silver Print the arts led him to The Banbury School of Art where Value: $2,750 he studied painting and then photography. Later he Courtesy of: Barbara Griffin attended The London College of Printing and began working as a photographer and artist. He moved to San Francisco in 1977 where he was astounded by the number of galleries the city housed which allowed artists to showcase and sell their work. San Francisco has remained his home ever since. Michael Kenna’s work has often been described as enigmatic, graceful and hauntingly beautiful . His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions throughout the world with permanent collections in the Bibliotheque, Paris; The Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague; The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London among many others. Lucinda Bunnen Moccasin Hollow Date: 2010 Edition: 2 of 20 Artist Bio Size: 20 x 24 inches Lucinda Bunnen is an avid photographer, private Medium: Rice Paper Digital Print collector and philanthropist. She began taking Value: $2,750 pictures passionately in 1970 and in 1973 she was Courtesy of: Lucinda Bunnen one of the founders of Nexus, now the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. Bunnen has co-authored “I was walking my dogs across the street without my three books. “Scoring In Heaven; Gravestones and camera when I saw the image. I called a friend who Cemetery Art in the American Sunbelt States” was in the neighborhood and she was able to bring was published by Aperture in 1990.