Unique Partnership | Lodima Press

Panopticon Gallery recently formed a unique partnership with Lodima Press to offer their portfolio books through the gallery. These limited edition books are printed in a 600 line screen quad tone, creating one of the highest quality reproductions that I have ever seen.

Books currently available through this series include those by photographers: Nicholas Nixon | Carl Chiarenza | George Tice | Keith Carter | Linda Connor | Larry Fink | Arthur Tress | Marilyn Bridges | Paul Caponigro | D.W. Mellor | Hans Bol | Robert Adams | Eric Lindbloom

Please stop by the gallery to check them out.

Boston-Reykjavic-Paris

Just returned back from Paris where I was reviewing portfolios at Lens Culture FotoFest Paris. This was the first large-scale photography portfolio review event for Paris. I met with 42 international photographers in three days. It was a wonderful experience and I met so many great artists and peers in the photo industry.

Next stop on the trip with ParisPhoto. ParisPhoto is one of the biggest photo expos in the world and it is held in the Carrousel, located underneath The Louvre in Paris. I have gone to this event for the past few years to see some of the best art, displayed by some of the biggest galleries in the world. It never disappoints. If you can't make it to Paris, check out PhotoLA in January or AIPAD in NYC in March for a similar experience.

Opening Reception | THIS WEEK!!!

The opening reception for
Neal Rantoul | Twenty-Five Years
(1980-2005)

Wednesday, November 10, 2010
5:30 - 7:30pm

A Super Wide Point of View | NPR

Today on the NPR Picture Show, read about photographer Neal Rantoul in, A Super Wide Point of View: Photos from an American Series.

Here's an excerpt:

"Before Leonardo DiCaprio ever walked on the set and shot his first scene for the movie Shutter Island, photographer Neal Rantoul had already been there. The backdrops for the movie were these abandoned houses located in a wooded area on Peddocks Island, off the coast of Boston, Mass. A series of photographs from the island, made in 2004, are included in his recent monograph, American Series. Now off-limits to the public, buildings lay dilapidated and decaying, part of the old Fort Andrews, an inoperative artillery post that was built to protect Boston Harbor up through World War II.­­"

To read more of this story, visit: http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow

America in Transition | Art New England

Our friends over at Art New England recently visited the studio of photographer Neal Rantoul as he was preparing for the upcoming exhibition, Neal Rantoul | Twenty-Five Years (1980-2005). Here is an excerpt:

"Ribbed patterns of wheat, like corduroy, cover the broad, rolling land near Pullman, Washington. Neal Rantoul’s Pullman, Washington, 1996–2001, is a series of photographs that explore this territory with straightforward visual clarity, honoring the formidable scale and visual depth of the land while making it accessible. Rantoul’s exhibition at Panopticon is a survey of a number of his serial black-and-white projects done over a period of twenty-five years. Rantoul, who has been head of the photography program in the Department of Art and Design at Northeastern University since 1981, has built a substantial body of work with roots in American photographic landscape traditions and the lean aesthetic of photographers like Harry Callahan and Frederick Sommers."

To read more of this article by David Raymond, visit www.artnewengland.com.