Dominic was recently a member of the now closed agency Oeil Public

Dominic Nahr

Dominic Nahr

Dominic Nahr

Dominic Nahr

Dominic Nahr

Moises was previously represented by Panos

Moises Saman

Moises Saman

Moises Saman

Moises Saman

Moises Saman

Here’s a BJP article about it..

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Other impressive showings were made by Oscar Ciutat who answered 49 correctly, Seza Bali and Andras Sarkadi who got 47 and Marietta Leung with 46.

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Julie Margaret Cameron

Alec Soth

Bernd and Hilla Becher

Jeff Wall

William Klein

Vera Lutter

Eadweard Muybridge

Robert Adams

Martin Parr

Daido Moriyama

Shirin Neshat

Larry Clark

Richard Prince

Louis Daguerre

Barbara Kruger

Collier Schorr

Harold Edgerton

Ed Ruscha

Roger Fenton

Alfredo Jaar

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Catherine Opie

August Sander

Ryan McGinley

Ai Weiwei

Alfred Stieglitz

Gregory Crewdson

Robert Frank

Alexander Rodchenko

Marina Abramovic

Chuck Close

Peter Beard

Richard Avedon

James Welling

Alexander Gardner

Simon Norfolk

Gillian Wearing

Andreas Gursky

Atta kim

Pieter Hugo

Edward Weston

Boris Mikhailov

Lee Friedlander

Edward Burtynsky

Duane Michals

Sze Tsung Leong

Ruud van Empel

Zhang Huan

Thomas Ruff

Cindy Sherman

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The fifth and final part of the photo ID quiz:

Make sure to read the rules in Part 1 HERE
See Part 2 HERE
See Part 3 HERE
See Part 4 HERE

Here they are, your final 10 photos. Now you can go ahead and email me at aphotostudent@yahoo.com

Good luck!!! The contest closes to entries this Sunday at midnight EST!!!

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Make sure to read the rules in Part 1 HERE
See Part 2 HERE
See Part 3 HERE

Here are your 10 photos for today. Remember to wait until after the 5th post goes up before you email me at aphotostudent@yahoo.com

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Make sure to read the rules in Part 1 HERE
See Part 2 HERE

Here are your 10 photos for today. Remember to wait until after the 5th post goes up before you email me at aphotostudent@yahoo.com

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Here are your 10 photos for today. Remember to wait until after the 5th post goes up before you email me at aphotostudent@yahoo.com

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How much film am I giving away? about 180 rolls of color 120 film!!!!

How do you get your hands on it?

I’m going away for a little while (not to prison, just a little vacation).

Over the next two weeks while I’m away there will be five photo ID posts here at A Photo Student, each containing 10 images.

All you have to do is wait until after the fifth post and shoot me an email at: aphotostudent@yahoo.com with the names of the 50 artists who made the images.

Easy, right?!

Again, five posts will go up while I’m away. each post will have 10 photos. Send me a single email with as many of the 50 artists’ names as you can figure out.

I’ll go through everyone’s answers when I get back to town at the end of the month and the film goes to the first person who emailed me the most correct answers by midnight eastern standard time on Sunday, June 27th, 2010.

Let’s begin:

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The New Yorker had a nice write up online of Fred Ritchin’s show, which I was very happy to be a part of. I thought Fred did an amazing job of curating a show that didn’t just present work but strengthened each body of work through how they played off one another. Seeing my own webcam images displayed next to Michael Wolf’s Google Street View series made me look at my work differently. Marc Garanger’s portraits of Algerian women in the early 1960’s who were forced to remove their veils by the French Army for identity card photos were very moving. Ritchin, quoted by the NY Times, explained “This work is very important because of the visual rape of the women who were forced to appear uncovered…You feel a distress, a defiance, an anger, a vulnerability because they’re not used to showing their face outside their immediate family.”

Vanity Fair had a positive write up of this year’s festival which has only been going on for three years:

…the guest-curated exhibitions at the first two iterations were largely of dubious quality and sloppy conception, marked by a frustrating randomness and a cast-off air. But as Wednesday night’s debut revealed, this year the highlights outweigh the lows, thanks to the incisive visions of four insightful curators: Vince Aletti, Erik Kessels, Fred Ritchin, and musician Lou Reed.

Erik Kessels’ “Use Me, Abuse Me” seemed to be the most controversial show at the festival. The work ranged from a 10-foot tall photo sculpture to home-made pottery decorated with humorous found images. I didn’t understand all of the work and I’m totally okay with that. What I appreciated was seeing other artists working with the still image in ways I hadn’t considered. It was also nice to see some humour.

PDN’s Holly Hughes notes:

The festival’s four main galleries – called “pavilions” – feature so much strong work and provocative imagery that it seems quibbling to note that some of the shows in which these images appear lack coherent themes…In the festival’s third year, it may be time to give up trying to glean any significance in the juxtaposition of the images. Maybe the best way to approach the festival is just to poke around and see what’s cool.

Over at A Photo Editor, most of the comments are negative: “…this year seemed overly conceptual, gimmicky even, with a lack of true beauty…”. “Academic photography has nothing to do with making good pictures.”

On her blog, Stella Kramer (a former editor at magazines like Sports Illustrated and People) writes:

I’ve always wondered why the festival seems so out of touch with the photo community that I exist in. I would love more photographers of all genres to have the chance to show their work, leaving some of the high brow academic art photography in the background…I always come looking for surprises and leave feeling strangely unmoved.

I happen to think there was a wide-range of photography represented and far more surprises than one would find in most publications. There are photo festivals that focus on much more traditional documentary work but that’s not what the New York Photo Festival is trying to do.

I do agree with Stella that outside projections would be great but from what I understand, doing things outside in public spaces in NYC requires more permits and money. I am surprised that the city isn’t more supportive of the festival – Rob Hornstra had a few posters wheat pasted on a construction scaffold and the city made him take those down. It would be great to have a nice outdoor bar/cafe at the end of Main Street or in the Tobacco Warehouse. I was very disappointed in the Lou Reed exhibit and while I like the work that Vince Aletti curated, I felt it wasn’t presented well (I wonder if it was Vince’s choice or a matter of $$$).

For me, this year’s highlights were higher than in past years and the low points were still pretty low. I wish there was more of an integration between Dumbo and the festival. It would be great if there was work on display in public spaces.

So, what do people want? Yeah, cheaper tickets and portfolio reviews and no tech problems. Obviously, things need to run smoother…The whole festival experience should be more welcoming…Press previews should start on time…Festival catalogues should be available from the start. But what about some suggestions that the organizers might not have thought of? Four years ago, there was no NY Photo Festival and while the current festival still needs work, I had a blast wandering around Dumbo, bumping into friends, seeing work I was unfamiliar with. Rencontres D’Arles has been around since 1970. Houston FotoFest started in 1986. This year is the 23rd year of Visa Pour l’Image. I wonder what the NY Photo Festival will be like 20 years from now. Some thoughtful, constructive feedback might help make next year’s festival better.

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Pichatpong Weerasethakul, Primitive, 2009. Seven channel video installation. Courtesy Kick the Machine Films. Photo: Chaisiri Jiwarangsan

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and HUGO BOSS AG have announced the short list for the Hugo Boss Prize 2010. Established in 1996 to recognize significant achievement in contemporary art, this biennial award is administered by the foundation and juried by an international panel of museum directors, curators, and critics. The finalists for the eighth presentation of the prize are Cao Fei, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Roman Ondák, Walid Raad, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

Given to an artist whose work represents a significant development in contemporary art, the Hugo Boss Prize sets no restrictions in terms of age, gender, race, nationality, or medium, and the nominations may include emerging artists as well as established individuals whose public recognition may be long overdue. Previous winners include Matthew Barney (1996), Douglas Gordon (1998), Marjetica Potrč (2000), Pierre Huyghe (2002), Rirkrit Tiravanija (2004), Tacita Dean (2006), and Emily Jacir (2008). The 2010 prize carries with it an award of $100,000.

The jury for the 2010 prize is chaired by Nancy Spector, Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and the jurors are Udo Kittelmann, Director, Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Alexandra Munroe, Senior Curator of Asian Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Yasmil Raymond, Curator, Dia Art Foundation, New York; Joan Young, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; and Tirdad Zolghadr, independent writer and curator.

The prizewinner will be selected and announced in fall 2010, and the artist’s work will be presented in an exhibition in 2011 at the Guggenheim Museum.

To learn more and see a video announcement, go HERE.

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