© Sylvia Plachy

The Center for Photography at Woodstock
59 Tinker Street
Woodstock, NY
(845) 679-9957

Lecture: Saturday, June 2, 8:00 pm
Admission: $7 / $5 for members, seniors, and students.

Photographer Sylvia Plachy, a contributor to the Village Voice and The New Yorker for many years, will be discussing her career as a master storyteller.

Workshop: Saturday, June 2–Sunday, June 3
Click here for tuition costs.

In conjunction with this lecture is the workshop, Editing the Photo Essay. Participants will be able to edit and sequence their photographs alongside Plachy, in order to begin to build a photo essay, book, or exhibition.

This Side of Paradise

Exhibition on view through June 5, 2012
Thursday – Sunday, 1:00 – 7:00 pm
FREE

The Andrew Freedman Home
1125 Grand Concourse
Bronx, NY
(718) 293-8100

No Longer Empty, a not-for-profit arts organization, presents a group exhibition in the newly reopened Andrew Freedman Home. The Home was once built to be a haven for the rich elderly who had lost their fortunes. Bequeathed by millionaire Andrew Freedman, the Home provided not only food and shelter but all the accoutrements of a rich and civilized life style – white glove dinner service, a grand ballroom, a wood-paneled library, a billiard room, and a social committee who organized concerts, opera performances, and the like.

Referencing this quixotic history, This Side of Paradise references the past and reconnect the vision of Andrew Freedman to today’s Bronx and its realities. Sylvia Plachy is one of the featured artists and she is showing photographs that were published in 1980 for an article written by Vivian Gornick for The Village Voice. The images capture the lives of the residents at this time, showing them at their social hour, reading, or in silent contemplation.

Sylvia Plachy has appeared in Aperture issues 207 and 206. She also has two Aperture-published books, Self Portrait with Cows Going Home and Goings On About Town: Photographs for the New Yorker.

FEATURING:

The Mushroom Collector, Jason Fulford, discusses his obsessive and genre-defying project.  (cover)

An interview with influential French publisher Robert Delpire about his formidable achievements over the last fifty years as a pioneer in photography magazine and book publishing, films, and advertising. Information on related exhibitions here.

Young South African photographer Daniel Naudé’s series Animal Farm that chronicles mankind’s dominion over animals.

Excerpts from Martin Parr’s new book, Up and Down Peachtree, a whimsical look at Atlanta, Georgia’s popular culture.

Award-winning photojournalist Stephanie Sinclair’s images documenting women’s issues from around the world.

Sylvia Plachy captures and notes fleeting moments at the Kentucky Derby and a nearby cemetery.

Best-selling author Francine Prose on Judy Linn, best known for her photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith.

Vintage Congolese nightlife photos by Jean Depara.

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Lulu, Budapest, 1972. © Sylvia Plachy

solo show: Sylvia Plachy

Exhibition on view:
June 28–August 26, 2011

Flo Peters Gallery:
Chilehaus C
Pumpen 8
20095 Hamburg, Germany
+49-40-30374686

Sylvia Plachy’s photographs are on exhibit now until late August at the Flo Peters Gallery in Hamburg, Germany. Born in Budapest and currently living in New York, Plachy is a contributing photographer at the New Yorker. Aperture has published two books by Plachy, Self Portrait with Cows Going Home and Goings On About Town: Photographs for The New Yorker. Aperture also offers one of her quintessential images as a limited-edition print, After the Dance, Jacob’s Pillow.

Aperture magazine Co-Publisher Dana Triwush with Sylvia Plachy

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A full house within the Levi’s© Photo Workshop on Thursday evening was expanded by over 30,000 people on Facebook who experienced Bruce Davidson’s guided tour through his last 50 years of photography. The Q&A portion of the evening was lively, with Workshop programming director Emma Reeves fielding questions both in person and online. Bruce has clearly influenced many generations of photographers, and it was wonderful to see a vibrant and diverse crowd gathering to celebrate him and his work. After a brief book signing the Workshop staff presented Bruce with a Falcon candid camera from their vintage camera rentals area, which he’d told them was one of the first cameras he ever used. He’s tracking down film for it now, always in pursuit of the next photograph.

Slideshow photographs courtesy of Brandon Remler.

Bambi the Mermaid, Coney Island, Brooklyn © Sylvia Plachy

Do you have an engaging question for world-renowned photographer Sylvia Plachy about her work? Melissa Harris, Editor of Aperture magazine (and two of Plachy’s books, Self Portrait with Cows Going Home and Goings on About Town), will interview Plachy for the 2009 LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph’s INsight conversation series and wants to open the forum to questions from around the world. Don’t miss this opportunity to understand and further connect with Plachy’s photographic vision. Submit a question, including your name and location, by Monday, June 1, 2009. We are looking for questions that delve beyond technical matters, exploring issues of creativity, storytelling, subject, sensibility, and inspiration. Selected questions will be asked during the interview, which will be viewable here after July 8, 2009.

Send questions to: asksylvia@look3.org

Paramount Theatre
Thursday, June 11, 2009  7:00 pm
215 E Main St
Charlottesville, Virginia
(434) 979-1922

Click here for more details

The third annual Look3 Festival of the Photograph, which celebrates photography with gallery shows, workshops, interviews with legendary photographers, and special outdoor exhibitions, will be held in historic downtown Charlottesville, VA, June 11-13, 2009.

The featured photographers for 2009 are: Martin Parr, Gilles Peress, and Sylvia Plachy.

LOOK3 also hosts workshops and project critique sessions for photographers of all skill levels. And this year, there are 10 Student Workshop Scholarships available to undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in 2-4 year accredited programs. Deadline to apply is May 1, 2009.

See Martin Parr’s Aperture publications here.

See Gilles Peress’s Aperture publications here.

See Sylvia Plachy’s Aperture publications here.

Photographer Sylvia Plachy will be delivering a Keynote Address at Duke University, as part of a workshop for Doc U Arts Institute this Friday. Plachy’s photography has been featured in nearly every major publication, earned her many awards, and have been exhibited in solo shows at galleries and museums around the world. Her first book, Sylvia Plachy’s Unguided Tour, won the International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award for Best Publication in 1990. In  Self-Portrait With Cows Going Home, (Aperture, 2004), Plachy shared her personal history of central Europe in photographs and text, and her most recent publication, Goings on About Town: Photographs for The New Yorker, features photographs from the legendary section in The New Yorker magazine .

This event is open to the public and is a fantastic opportunity to hear insight from one of photography’s greats.

Listen to Syliva discuss her photography with Frank Stasio of WUNC- North Carolina Public Radio.

Click here to see the newly released Aperture limited-edition photograph from Plachy,  After the Dance, Jacob’s Pillow, 2005.

Sylvia Plachy: Keynote Address
February 6, 2009 7:00 pm
Richard White Auditorium
East Campus, Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

Five exhibitions in Europe and the U.S. are featuring the personal and acclaimed work of photographer Sylvia Plachy. Born in Hungary, Plachy immigrated to the United States with her parents in 1958, and has been photographing since 1964. Goings on About Town: Photographs for The New Yorker is her most recent book published by Aperture. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, Lucie award, and has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker and Village Voice, among others.

SOLO SHOWS
New York, New York
Composition Gallery, Atlanta, GA
September 30 – November 2

Fragile Beings
Blanca Berlín Galería, Madrid, Spain
October 9 – November 11

The Amazing Adrien
My Cup of Tea | Creative Space, Rome, Italy
October 16 – November 1

GROUP SHOWS
Darkside
Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
September 6 – November 11

Behind Walls – Eastern Europe before 1989
Noorderlicht Photofestival, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
September 7 – October 26