Coal Mining, Dhanbad, Bihar, India, 1989.

Don’t miss this incredibly rare opportunity to see and hear one of the world’s most important social-documentary photographers, Sebastião Salgado. Salgado’s discerning photography documents the lives of the dispossessed with moving images of manual laborers, refugees, and extensive metropolises, which bear witness to the economic challenges and social injustice in less developed countries.

An evening with Sebastião Salgado
Presented by Fotovision
Palace of Fine Arts
Saturday, May 9, 2009
6:30 pm
San Francisco, Califronia

Hammer Lectures: Sebastião Salgado
Hammer Museum
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
7:00 pm
Los Angeles, California

Sebastião Salgado: AFRICA
Special Benefit & Exhibition Opening
Peter Fetterman Gallery
Wednesday, May 13, 2009,
7:00 pm
Santa Monica, California

Exhibition on view:
Wednesday, May 13–Saturday, September 19, 2009

Peter Fetterman Gallery is pleased to present Sebastião Salgado’s exhibition Africa. In addition, the gallery is hosting a special benefit for Sebastião & Lelia Salgado’s Instituto Terra with an evening of Brazilian food and music.

Aperture books Uncertain Grace and Workers will be available for purchase at Peter Fetterman Gallery. Also available from Aperture is The Children: Refugees and Migrants.

A Night at the Met with Larry Fink
Friday, April 24th, 2009, 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Reception from 6:00–7:00 pm
Lecture from 7:00–8:30 pm

Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley
105 North Gate Hall
Berkeley, CA
(510) 642-3383

The West-Coast based Fotovision invites all who share the love and passion for photography to an exclusive cocktail party and lecture launching photographer Larry Fink’s new Blurb book,  A Night at the Met.

Fink’s photography has been described as displaying the sensitive core of interpersonal-relationships, and the playful and visually beautiful photographs in A Night at the Met capture the ritual of the donor party at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Larry Fink has been honored with several awards, including two Guggenheim Fellowships and two NEA grants. His work spans across various spectra in the world of photography including documentary, commercial, and art photography, but he is best known for his “snapshot” aesthetic.

A gelatin-silver print of Sarah Vaughan, New York City, November 1988,  is available from Aperture.

Backyard of the home where Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor lived in Berkeley, CA. (L-R) Wayne Miller; Joan Miller; John Dixon; Meg Patridge; Dan Dixon; Chrissie Gardner; Rondal Partridge. Photo by Tim Wagner

As part of the ongoing celebration of the 75th anniversary of The New Deal, Dorothea Lange, one of the founders of Aperture magazine and famous for the legendary Migrant Mother, the photograph that sums up the Great Depression, was honored by Fotovision with a garden party on September 21, 2008 at Lange and Paul Taylor’s home in Berkeley. Guest speakers were Dan and John Dixon (sons of Lange and her first husband, Maynard Dixon), photographer Wayne Miller (90, co-curator of the seminal Family of Man show), his muse Joan Miller, Rondal Partridge, (91, photographer, son of Imogen Cunningham, and Lange’s assistant while she worked for the FSA), and Chrissie Gardner (88, Lange’s assistant during her project on the Japanese Internment at the beginning of WWII). Filmmaker and daughter of Ron Partridge, Margaret Partridge, and photographer Ken Light were co-moderators.

The circle of family and friends told stories of Dorothea’s coffee klatches (she made coffee cakes by the dozens), her photos (legendary), and swapped insider gossip about her, like the story of when she was invited to Shirley Burden’s daughter’s wedding, he being one of last of the Vanderbilts and a major photo supporter for Aperture and MoMA. Dorothea reportedly wore a $12.50 Montgomery Wards dress but glowed, even when sitting between Fred Astaire and Nat King Cole, who talked over her head the whole evening. Shirley had asked her to be the wedding photographer, and though she declined, she took photographs of the occasion which she sent to him later.

Dorothea was famously social and held a party for Edward Steichen while he was curating the Family of Man exhibit in 1955. She invited all the important west-coast photographers so that he would not leave them out of the exhibit and, as a result of her efforts, that landmark show had works by Lange, Ansel Adams, Ruth Marion Baruch, Shirley Burden, John Collier, Matt Farbman, Consuelo Kanaga, Otto Hegel, Wayne Miller, Homer Page, Ron Partridge, and Edward Weston.

Click below to see additional photos from the party.

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