Inside the Photographers_Studio with Phillip Toledano

My friend Andrew Hetherington and former boss in New York recently posted the 6th installment of Inside the Photographers_Studio featuring photographer Phillip Toledano. Andy who travels a lot on assignments finds time to visit photographers and their studios in between shooting his own work.

I had the pleasure of meeting Phillip last year at Review Santa Fe and was immediately struck by not only his subject choice but the final image. I always feel some of the strongest photographic projects are the simplest ideas. In his series, Phone Sex, Phillip photographed phone sex operators. The prints are accompanied by text written by the women themselves about their experience.

Phillip is also well know for his series about his elderly father, Days With My Father. The images are honest, quiet, beautifully composed and leave us with a sense of love and loss.

The interview is hilarious and informative. Phillip candidly talks about his project choices and project development. The 24 minute interview ends with a view at his current work in progress–a series of portraits of people who have had plastic surgery.

ACP Receives First Grant

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ACP is honored to be the recipient of a $500 supporting grant from PhotoShelter.

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Thanks to PhotoShelter. Please help us thank them by checking out their services to see if they offer something you can use.

Kodak to Retire Kodachrome Film

Eastman Kodak Company announced today that it will retire KODACHROME color film this year, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon.

Sales of KODACHROME Film, which became the world’s first commercially successful color film in 1935, have declined dramatically in recent years as photographers turned to other, newer KODAK films or to the digital imaging technologies that Kodak pioneered. Today, KODACHROME Film represents just a fraction of one percent of Kodak’s total sales of still-picture films.

“KODACHROME Film is an iconic product and a testament to Kodak’s long and continuing leadership in imaging technology,” said Mary Jane Hellyar, President of Kodak’s Film, Photofinishing and Entertainment

Group. "It was certainly a difficult decision to retire it, given its rich history. However, the majority of today's photographers have voiced their preference to capture images with newer technology – both film and digital. Kodak remains committed to providing the highest-performing products – both film and digital – to meet those needs."

Read the rest of the press release here.

ACP Mention in Slideluck Potshow Blog

ACP (and founder David Lykes Keenan) received brief mention in Casey Kelbaugh's Slideluck Potshow blog this week. Casey is founder of SLPS.

The mention came as part of Casey's wrap up of the SLPS show at the LOOK3 photo festival in Charslottesville, Virginia.

See the blog posting here (scroll down a bit).

We recently announced that SLPS will be returning to Austin in November.

ACP at the Austin Photo Expo

ACP had a table at the first Austin Photo Expo held on the weekend of June 6th and 7th. Sponsored by Precision Camera and Video the two day event was heavily attended and deemed very successful by all.


We had many visitors to the ACP table. In fact, 25 new members joined on the spot, and we collected over 130 contacts for our mailing list.

Many thanks to our new members and welcome aboard.

And thanks to the six volunteers who pitched in to make the ACP presence at the Expo so successful. They were:

• Milli Apelgen
• Callie Richmond
• Andrea Patin
• Rudy Ximenez
• Vija Mendelson (pictured)
• Douglas Marshall

Thanks too to Nan Blake, Board Member Ex Officio, for staffing the table Saturday morning.

Such overwhelming positive response to ACP at this event is one more indication that we're headed in the right direction.

iPhoning it in from LOOK 3 Day 2

Things happen organically here... Sat down with fellow ACP members John Langmore, Todd Williams, and Lance Rosenfield for a quick healthy lunch and Larry Fink stopped to have a bite. Lance has assisted Larry with a workshop here all week and they both had great things to say about their students and the experience. One of many great things about Look3.

Last night's Insight Conversation with Sylvia Plachy did not disappoint. She gave a charming, funny, and honest look into her work and family life. The work she showed ranged from known masterpieces to family photos and pictures of the cat, but all were thoughtful. Sylvia peppered anecdotes from her life and uprooted childhood
(fleeing Hungry), including one where she told of sucking her thumb until the age of 16 and then graduating straight to cigarettes, setting the family's kitchen trash on fire in the process. Through her images and stories she showed the reflection of her shy and lost childhood, loosing her country and language. Beautiful.

The night continued late with a C-ville style SlideLuck Potshow with very strong work and a shout out to the Austin crowd and upcoming SLPS Austin in November. The night wandered as it does and the sun came up very quickly.

More later about Eugene Richards this morning. The work on both our soldiers (unsure of title) and the work from "The Blue Room" is so moving and powerful my words now would be pathetic. This is work that should be seen.

Look3 C-ville is in full swing.

Written by Kelly Lynn James

iPhoning it in from LOOK3

When I was asked if I could "blog" for Austin Center for Photography during Look3 I thought, "great"... I'm on Facebook... I've heard of Twitter... I can do this. Oh boy. But here I am in flight, Charlottesville bound and I'm sure the weekend will get away from me, so I'm going to try iPhoning it in from the festival.

This is my second trip to this gathering of Peace, Love, and Photography in Charlottesville. I overheard someone describe it as a place to celebrate great work, see old friends, make new ones, and blow off some steam. That sounds about right. But still, the image, in all of it's forms, is truly at the center of this celebration.

Right now I'm on a plane over North Carolina. There are easily 10 people on this little prop plane heading to LOOK. One of them I met worked on the movie Blood Trail (see LOOK website) and another shoots for an NGO in the Caribbean. Everyone is buzzing.

Early morning flight. Awful coffee. Good PDN to read, though. So far, so good. Landing....

Written by Kelly Lynn James

Alec Soth TONIGHT!

Alec Soth speaks, shows work, signs books and posters, and just brings his talent and nice guy status to share with Austin tonight.

Books and posters on sale at the Blanton gift shop.

Auditorium at the Blanton Museum of Art tonight beginning at 7pm.

Arrive between 6 and 6:30pm for best chance to get a seat -- SEATING IS LIMITED.

Back to Nature, in Pictures and Action

By Jori Finkel

SEBASTIÃO SALGADO sounds as if he’s slightly allergic to Los Angeles. It’s not just that this celebrated Brazilian photojournalist has been sniffling since he arrived in the city, explaining: “I was born in a tropical ecosystem. I’m not used to these plants.” It’s also that he peppers his description of the city with words like strange and crazy, noting that he was mesmerized by the sight of the endless stream of automobile traffic as his plane made its descent.

Read more on the New York Times web site here.

FYI -- ACP helped sponsor the recent Salgado exhibition at the Austin Museum of Art.