Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Harold Feinstein | Kickstarter project


For the past three years, a team of individuals has been working on reinventing the Harold Feinstein brand. In particular, revisiting and reintroducing Harold’s classic black and white photographs to the public.

Now it’s time to launch our biggest endeavor yet!

We plan to raise the funds to design, edit and publish 1,000 copies of a 200+ page large square hardcover retrospective of Harold Feinstein's classic and historically important black & white photographs through Kickstarter.

Harold Feinstein is a living legend in the world of photography. At 80 years old, with 60+ years in photography, he has yet to have a monograph printed of his classic black & white photographs. We want Harold’s photographic legacy to be documented and available for everyone to appreciate his contribution to American 20th century photographic history.

We have established a team of designers, writers, and production professionals who will assist with all stages of this production. We are determined to make this happen, and so is Harold. Please join us in us in fulfilling Harold’s dream by donating to this historically and artistically important Kickstarter project.

Please click on the photograph to watch a short video about Harold.

Thank you.

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Panopticon Gallery | 40th Anniversary Exhibition

Frank Armstrong, Old Weona, Arkansas, 2004
Panopticon Gallery is proud to be celebrating its 40th Anniversary, and with it, our biggest group exhibition to date! From September 8th through October 31st, the gallery will be displaying close to seventy-five individual artists who have been asociated with Panopticon Gallery during its forty-year run.

In 1971, Tony Decaneas opened a small one-room gallery in the basement of 187 Bay State Road in Boston, MA. His first exhibition was a group exhibition of local photographers. This exhibition paved the way for many group and solo exhibitions to come. Panopticon Gallery soon began exhibiting photographs by many of today's most noted photographers, including Ansel Adams, Garry Winogrand, Alfred Stieglitz, Bradford Washburn, Ernest C. Withers, Constantine Manos, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Paul Caponigro, Elliott Erwitt and Edward Weston.

In the mid 1970's, Panopticon Gallery moved to Newbury St, then back to Bay State Road before moving its gallery and imaging business to Moody Street in Waltham, MA in 2000. In 2004, the gallery opened its second location inside the Hotel Commonwealth in Kenmore Square, where it currently resides.

In early 2010, Mr. Decaneas sold the gallery to Jason Landry who continues to host outstanding exhibitions by internationally recognized photographs as well as local and national emerging artists.

Today, the gallery is noted as being the oldest fine art photography gallery in New England specializing in contemporary, modern and vintage photography.

Please join us on Thursday, September 8th from 5:30-8:30pm for a reception with the artists.