Blue Moon Camera and Machine celebrates our sixteenth anniversary with a presentation of our Fifteenth Annual Customer Show. As one of the last optical printing labs in the country, Blue Moon Camera handles film from thousands of photographers around the globe throughout the year. Tens of thousands of images pass through the lab – some […]
Augen is pleased to present its second solo exhibition of photographs by Terry K. Thompson with this broad 50-year retrospective of his life's work, titled "Entanglement - Photographic Works 1967-2017." Thompson began early on as a painter and “literature sponge,” as he puts it, before settling on the camera and the particular aesthetics of photography […]
As a final exhibition commemorating the Embodied: Asserting Self exhibition series, Blue Sky presents Lorna Simpson: from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer, which includes two major bodies of work by Simpson: Wigs (1994) and Details (1996). Wigs is a collection of twenty-one lithographs depicting hair pieces and seventeen corresponding texts printed on felt. The images […]
"Lethe is the river that cleanses Dante in Purgatory, the one that wipes memories of the dead as they drink from it or bathe in it. The poet Sylvia Plath steps up from 'the black car of Lethe, Pure as a baby'. It is an escape, a relief from our own physical limitations."In her collage-based […]
Artist and educator Lisa Jarrett explores embodiment by discussinginfluence, visibility, and possibility within Simpson's work
LightBox Photographic Gallery host the opening and artists’ reception of the LightBox Members Group Exhibit on Saturday, December 9th from 5-8 pm. LightBox members are a community of photographers and patrons that support the mission of the gallery to promote and educate in the photographic arts through exhibits, education, events and member gatherings. Members meet […]
Submission call for "Cascadia 2018" deadline extended to Dec. 10 at midnight A Traveling Exhibit Open to Oregon Photographers funded by The Ford Family Foundation Visual Arts Grant Deadline for submission of up to 3 jpgs has been extended to Dec. 10 Notification of jurors' results is Jan. 1, 2018 Deadline for shipping accepted prints […]
Portland Art Museum Photography Council’sBrown Bag Lunch Talk SeriesBill Finger's imagery examines such topics as space exploration, crime, and the fallibility of memory. With each series he looks to the thin line between fiction, reality, and photography. To create an image, he begins with the construction of a miniature diorama that is built specifically for […]
Portland, Oregon photographer Hillary Atiyeh Clements’ exhibit, “Chaos Theory”, is a new series of black and white double exposures. Atiyeh Clements notes, “Chaos Theory is a branch of science based on the law of sensitive dependence on initial conditions. Rooted in quantum theory and relativity its main premise states that small changes in initial conditions […]
Robert Frank is considered the inventor of street photography. With his method of sequencing and composing pictures in intuitive series beyond the traditional photographic essay, he has developed new forms of expression within the medium of photography.Despite Frank’s significant influence on photographers of his own and subsequent generations, there are only few exhibitions of his […]
