Sony World Photography Awards 2013: Legend William Eggleston wins prize

Renowned American photographer William Eggleston has scooped the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards’ Outstanding Contribution to Photography award.

Recognised as the pioneer of colour photography and the personal documentary style, William Eggleston has been producing cutting-edge work for over fifty years. Since first picking up a camera in 1957, Eggleston’s work is said to find ‘beauty in the everyday’.

His images capture the ordinary world around him, creating interest through sharp observation, dynamic composition and great wit.

‘Untitled. 1968 from Los Alamos’ by William Eggleston (Eggleston Artistic Trust/ Gagosian Gallery/ Sony World Photography Awards). Click here to view slideshow.

His ground-breaking 1976 show at the Museum of Modern Art, New York moved colour photography from the field of advertising to being recognised as an artform unto itself. His influence on contemporary photography and photographers is far-reaching and has inspired the likes of Martin Parr, Sofia Coppola, Andreas Gurksy and Juergen Teller.

Talking about the award, Eggleston said: “The world is in colour. To paraphrase my friend John Szarkowski, my attempt has been to see simultaneously, both the blue and the sky as one thing.”

Astrid Merget, Creative Director of the World Photography Organisation, said: “William Eggleston is without a doubt one of the great pioneers of our time. His influence on colour photography and subsequently on many of today’s most revered working photographers is one to be admired, respected and awarded. We are honoured to have the opportunity to present the Outstanding Contribution to Photography award to William this year.”

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Eggleston received the award at the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards Gala Ceremony. The winners of the awards’ professional categories and the overall L’Iris d’Or/Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year were also revealed.

A selection of Eggleston’s prints loaned by The Wilson Centre for Photography will be on display at Somerset House as part of the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition from April 26 to May 12.

The exhibition images were taken by Eggleston between 1965 and 1980.  The majority of the prints are from his iconic Los Alamos and Dust Bells series and the 10.D.70.V1 portfolio.

A further selection of Eggleston’s images can be seen in the 2013 edition of the Sony World Photography Awards book.

Text courtesy of Yahoo! News UK

His work is a reflection of the lost “American Dream” that left with the 50’s with an emphasis on the alienation and fracturing of suburban America. Credit: Todd Hido

Todd Hido: Excerpts from Silver Meadows

Where I’m Calling From: Todd Hido Selects from the Bidwell Collection

Two exhibitions to open May 24, with a free public reception from 5 – 9:00 p.m.

Todd Hido is not your average photographer. The art photos he does have a life of their own. Hido uses his still camera like a movie camera but he only keeps the one scene that defines the entire “movie”. His work is a reflection of the lost “American Dream” that left with the 50’s with an emphasis on the alienation and fracturing of suburban America. His is the stuff of noir films and pulp fiction.

Transformer Station will be holding two of Todd Hido’s exhibitions simultaneously. The first, Todd Hido: Excerpts from Silver Meadows is a collection of over 100 of his most recent works. A major new monograph of works included in Excerpts from Silver Meadows will be published by Nazraeli Press on occasion of the Transformer Station exhibition.

The title of the photo group is from a mythical street that runs through a non-existent Midwestern suburb that reflect the artist’s conception of his developmental years of growing up around Kent, Ohio. The exhibition includes childhood snapshots, newspaper clippings and other artifacts of his youth that serve as his inspiration as he traveled from the lightness of youth into and through the darker capsule of adulthood and beyond.

Phase two the dual collection is the complementary exhibition, Where I’m Calling From: Todd Hido Selects from the Bidwell Collection. This collection features photographs from the Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell collection that connect with the artist. By interspersing the arrangement of the two exhibitions, a new fresh dialog appears to the viewer standing far stronger combined then the individual works could stand on their own, i.e.: the sum of the parts…

Both exhibitions will be on view May 24 – August 23, 2013.

A preview dinner on May 23 will inaugurate the Transformer Station’s membership program; guests who purchase tickets to the event become charter members, supporting efforts to keep the museum free, open to the public and a force for creativity and innovation in Cleveland. For more information or ticket reservations, write to info@TransformerStation.org or call 216-938-5429.

About the Artist

Todd hido (b.1968, Kent, OH) is a San Francisco Bay Area-based artist who received his MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1996, where he studied under Larry Sultan, and his BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University. His photographs have been exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, and are included in numerous museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as well as in many other public and private collections. His work has been featured in Artforum, The New York Times Magazine and Vanity Fair, among others. Excerpts from Silver Meadows, published by Nazraeli Press, is Hido’s sixth monograph. He is an adjunct professor at the California College of Art, San Francisco, California.

About the Transformer Station

Transformer Station is located at 1460 West 29th Street, Cleveland OH 44113, 216-938-5429. Admission is free. Hours are Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays: 12 – 5 p.m. and Thursdays: 12 – 9 p.m.

Text courtesy of The Examiner

Instagram Watch: Todd Hido

From @toddhido on Instagram.

I love when a big name in art photography pops up on Instagram. Today, I stumbled upon the mobile work of Todd Hido, the San Francisco based photographer with work in just about every major museum in the United States (he started posting photos a few weeks ago).

Hido is perhaps most famous for his studies of the American landscape, especially homes and apartment buildings. But he also has a distinct, fashion-minded portraiture style, which makes up the bulk of his Instagram output to date. Hido is fond of the #nofilter tag, but it’s hard to guess if these images are coming straight from a phone camera. Some have the characteristic colors and noise, and yet others look like they’re re-posts of photos made on film. In both, the aesthetic is vintage.

Update: Hido writes on Twitter: “It’s all analog instamatic 126 film, so not mobile phone photography.”

Here’s hoping Hido keeps up the output. Definitely worth a follow: @toddhido.

Text courtesy of American Photo.

The godfather of colour photography, William Eggleston, inspired a generation – from David Lynch to Juergen Teller. As the 73-year-old from Memphis is honoured by the Sony World Photography Awards, and Tate Modern open a permanent exhibition of his work, Michael Glover pays tribute to his genius plus fans, critics and fellow artists put questions to him.

Click here to read the full article from The Independent

The 2013 Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition, featuring William Eggleston, is at Somerset House, London WC2, Friday to 12 May; 30 of his works will also be on display at Tate Modern, London SE1, from Monday

Todd Hido: House Hunting
Presented in the Pier 24 Photography exhibition HERE.

May 23, 2011 – January 31, 2012

Todd Hido’s color photographs of domestic landscapes reflect the artist’s interest in the themes of home, family, and memory. Taken at night, his photographs depict anonymous dwellings, their windows glowing in the soft darkness; the resulting feeling is one of unsettling isolation and unease. Hido captures a haunting suburbia through the absence of people and the careful modulation of light and color, alluding to imagined narratives taking place inside.

Text courtesy of Pier 24 Photography

Opening April 13:

Freeway Studies #1: This Side of the 405
April 13 – June 1, 2013

Steve Galloway
Cave of Three Bats (and the Ray of Hope), 2008
54 x 72 inch Oil Painting on Canvas
Signed, captioned and dated by the artist on verso
From the collection of the artist

PRESS RELEASE

Freeway Studies is a multi-year, contemporary art-focused curatorial project organized by Meg Linton, Director of Galleries and Exhibitions, with the assistance of Jeseca Dawson, 2012-2014 Curatorial Fellow.

This Side of the 405 features work by 33 contemporary artists whose studios are west of the 405, north of the 105 and south of the 10 freeways in Los Angeles. The impetus for this curatorial endeavor was and continues to be an effort to survey, one studio at a time, the neighborhoods and networks of artists working in Los Angeles. Over a six month period Linton and Dawson visited 85 studios and met with more than 100 artists in the designated area, documenting each visit on a blog. They will update the blog as they visit more artists to plan the subsequent Freeway Studies exhibitions focusing on other neighborhoods.

Artists: Charles Arnoldi, Natalie Arnoldi, Alex Becerra, Larry Bell, Karen Carson, Meg Cranston, Greg Colson, Tony de los Reyes, Steve Galloway, Joe Goode, Scott Grieger, Deborah Hede, Tom Knechtel, Lies Kraal, Rachel Lachowicz, Lauren Marsolier, Renée Petropoulos, Phranc, Vincent Ramos, Lucas Reiner, Liza Ryan, Kim Schoenstadt, Kiki Seror, Alexis Smith, Barbara T. Smith, Jim Starrett, Jon Swihart, Shirley Tse, Sam Watters, Chris Wilder, Pontus Willfors, Suzan Woodruff, and Jody Zellen.

Events:
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 13, 4pm-6pm, Free
Reception for the artists with SOUNDSCAPESSSSSZZZZZ performance by Paige Tighe and musical selections by MX Farina, Robots and Friends

Bus Tours: Saturdays, April 20 (#15417) & June 1 (#25439), 9am-3pm, $25
Curator led bus tours of local studios: Peter Alexander, Angie Bray, Carla Danes, Chris Danes, Drew Dominick, Marc Fichou, DJ Hall, Gilah Yelin Hirsch, Jeremy Kidd, Linda King, Cindy Kolodziejski, Blue McRight, Tia Pulitzer, Sarah Vanderlip. To Register: (310) 665 6950 or www.otis.edu/ce

Reading: Saturday, May 18, 4pm-8pm, Free. Live stream
Writing This Side of the 405: a live poetry & prose reading by local writers, curated by Guy Bennett with Kathy MacPherson.

Venice Art Walk: Sunday, May 19, $50
Venice Art Walk & Auctions: A benefit for the Venice Family Clinic.
Information and Registration: www.veniceartwalk.org

Billboard Project: Three artist billboards will be installed in Los Angeles during the run of the exhibition:
Scott Grieger, TOO MANY, 2013 (Lincoln Blvd northbound, north of Venice Blvd)
Jeremy Kidd, Chrysler 2, 2006 (Jefferson Blvd eastbound, at Centinela Ave)
Sandy Rodriguez, Fire Tornado, 2007 (Centinela Ave northbound, north of Jefferson Blvd)
Billboard locations may change in early May 2013. Check here for updates. Billboards sponsored by Summit Media LLC.

Text courtesy of Otis College of Art and Design