Portraits have played a central role in shaping the image of Monarchy. They have helped legitimise claims to the throne, reinforced dynastic ambitions, cemented political alliances, accompanied proposals of marriage, and even offered a glimpse into the private life of the royal family.

The Royal Portrait: Image and Impact brings together iconic images of kings and queens by some of the most celebrated portrait artists, including Holbein, Van Dyck, Gainsborough, Lawrence and Freud. It looks at the creation of a monarch’s identity through portraiture over the past 600 years, assessing the influence of patron, artist and audience. The story is brought up to date with images of Her Majesty The Queen, including the work of the photographers Rankin and Annie Leibovitz, as the author considers the relevance of the royal portrait in the age of paparazzo photography and global media.

Jennifer Scott is Assistant Curator of Paintings at the Royal Collection and is the co-author of Bruegel to Rubens: Masters of Flemish Painting (2007) and Dutch Landscapes (2010).

The Royal Portrait: Image and Impact is available from Royal Collection shops in London, Windsor Edinburgh and online and all good bookshops. Price £19.95 hardback. 200 pages and over 180 colour illustrations. ISBN 978 1905686 131.

www.royalcollectionshop.co.uk

One Block: A New Orleans Neighborhood Rebuilds (Aperture, August 2010), photographs by Dave Anderson, essay by Chris Rose, is a powerful portrait of post-Katrina New Orleans as seen through the prism of a single city block whose residents are attempting to rebuild their homes. Using portraiture and still lifes, Anderson explores the very nature of community while testing its resilience.

Anderson’s compassionate treatment of the neighborhood’s difficult circumstances has drawn comparisons to the work of Dorothea Lange and other Farm Security Administration-funded photographers. Seventy years later, between the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina and the current housing crisis, the stability and permanence of the American home is once again in jeopardy. One Block reflects Anderson’s affection for New Orleans and his fascination with the power of human resilience -both individually and collectively.

August 29, 2010 marks the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Artist talks, book signings, and exhibitions will take place in New York, New Orleans, San Francisco and Little Rock starting in July and continuing through the fall to commemorate the anniversary. The centerpiece event is a block party co-hosted by Aperture, The Oxford American and Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans on the block where Anderson made the photographs. The event will feature local cuisine and artist performances and celebrate the resiliency of this block and community. The following is a listing of this and other “One Block” events:

Thursday, August 26, 6-8 p.m.
One Block Exhibition Opening Reception & talk with the Artist
(Music by Lower Ninth Ward Revue featuring Al “Carnival Time” Johnson and the Guitar Lightnin’ Lee Band)
Ogden Museum of Southern Art

Exhibition on view:
Thursday, August 26, 2010 –Sunday, January 2, 2011

Saturday, August 28, 4 – 8 p.m.
Block Party at One Block location
Co-hosted by Aperture, The Oxford American and Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans
(500 block of Caffin Street, New Orleans, LA)
Open to the Public (First come, first serve)

About the Photographer

Dave Anderson has been recognized as “one of the shooting stars of the American photo scene” by Germany’s fotoMAGAZIN and named a “Rising Star” by Photo District News. A multi-talented image-maker, Dave worked in the Clinton White House and at MTV before discovering photography. His acclaimed first project, “Rough Beauty” was the winner of the 2005 National Project Competition awarded by Center, Santa Fe and was published with an essay by Anne Wilkes Tucker. Vince Aletti of the New Yorker has called his work “as clear-eyed and unsentimental as it is soulful and sympathetic.” Anderson’s work has been featured in magazines from Esquire to Stern and can be found in the collections of prominent museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; the Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi; and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. As a filmmaker, Dave’s original video series, “SoLost,” shot for The Oxford American, was recently named a finalist at the 2010 National Magazine Awards.

Outskirts Press, Inc. has published Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones: The Artist Who Lived Twice by Barbara Lehman Smith. The author’s most recent book to date is a 5.5 x 8.5 paperback in the biography of artists, architects and photographers category and is available worldwide on book retailer websites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones is also available in a 6.14 x 9.21 hardback edition with jacket. The webpage at www.outskirtspress.com/elizabethsparhawkjones was launched simultaneously with the book’s publication.

263 pages in length, Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones: The Artist Who Lived Twice is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the biography of artists, architects and photographers category. With U.S. wholesale distribution through Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and pervasive online availability through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere, Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones meets consumer demand through both retail and library markets with a suggested retail price of $16.95 and $25.95 for the paperback and hardback editions, respectively.

Additionally, Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones can be ordered by retailers or wholesalers for the maximum trade discount price set by the author in quantities of ten or more from the Outskirts Press Direct bookstore at www.outskirtspress.com/bookstore.

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About Outskirts Press, Inc.

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Masterworks from The Butler Institute of American Art, a three year effort by Butler staff, contains full color reproductions of one hundred sixty of Butler’s most beloved works.

Recent acquisitions, including the Butler’s new Jackson Pollock and Norman Rockwell paintings, are included in this stunning, 416 page volume, printed in the USA by City Printing Company of Youngstown. Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the Pollock Personal Foundation of Youngstown, and many other generous contributors, this catalogue is a beautiful reflection of the historic Butler Institute, a source of pride for our Ohio community since its founding in 1919.

Designed by art catalogue designer David Hayes (Oneonta, New York) and exquisitely produced utilizing high definition digital photographs taken by Joseph P. Rudinec (Boardman, Ohio), each Butler image is accompanied by a scholarly essay by art authorities from around the globe.

Masterworks from The Butler Institute of American Art is available for purchase exclusively in the Museum Gift Shop in Youngstown.

www.butlerart.com

This lavishly illustrated book is the first to examine the significant contributions of John and Dominique de Menil to art, architecture, film, and the civil and human rights movements.

The de Menils, who moved to Houston from France in 1941, amassed one of the world’s great private art collections and became passionately involved in the cause of human rights.

The volume includes a discussion of the building of the de Menils’ art collection; their patronage of modern architecture in Houston; their embrace of modernism; their leadership in Houston’s civil rights movement and in human rights projects worldwide; their commissioning of works of art; their involvement in early film education and documentary filmmaking; and their establishment of the Rothko Chapel, the Menil Collection, the Cy Twombly Gallery, the Dan Flavin Installation, and the Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum. Vintage photographs, including those taken by Henri Cartier Bresson and Eve Arnold, previously unpublished correspondence with artists, and an illustrated chronology all add to this textured tribute to the de Menils’ extraordinary achievements.

Author Josef Helfenstein is director of The Menil Collection. Laureen Schipsi is publisher at The Menil Collection.

Publisher: The Menil Collection (October 26, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0300123779
ISBN-13: 978-0300123777

Aperture Foundation, a world-leading non-profit arts institution dedicated to promoting photography in all its forms, is the recipient of two prestigious awards for its acclaimed book program in the summer of 2010.

PHotoEspaña, a celebrated international festival of photography, presented Aperture with its Outstanding Publishing House of the Year award during a ceremony last month at Teatro Español-Nave de Matadero in Madrid. The award recognizes the vital role both the publishing industry and the photobook play in presenting and distributing photography to a worldwide audience.

Aperture was honored in recognition of past year’s publications, including Kamaitachi, by Eikoh Hosoe; Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and ’70s, by Ryuichi Kaneko and Ivan Vartanian; Sally Mann: Proud Flesh (copublished with Gagosian Gallery); and Summer Nights, Walking, by Robert Adams (copublished with Yale University Art Gallery).

Rencontres de’Arles, the world’s foremost photography festival, took place earlier this month and awarded Aperture’s Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and ’70s, by Ryuichi Kaneko and Ivan Vartanian, the Historical Book Award, which goes to the best thematic book or monograph published between June 1, 2009, and May 31, 2010. The acclaimed volume presents over forty definitive publications from an era marked by massive upheaval and change in the form, style, content, and function of Japanese photography.

Among the most famous books featured in this unprecedented survey are Eikoh Hosoe’s Man and Woman, Nobuyoshi Araki’s Sentimental Journey, Daido Moriyama’s Japanese Theater, and Shomei Tomatsu’s Nippon. Previously, in April, Kaneko was awarded the 2010 Scholastic Achievement Award from the Photographic Society of Japan for his years of work dedicated to researching Japanese photography and photobooks.

Since its founding in 1952, Aperture has published over five hundred books that comprise one of the most comprehensive and innovative libraries in the history of photography and art. Aperture’s list of artists, ranging from masters to emerging innovators includes: Diane Arbus, Robert Capa, Barbara Crane, Bruce Davidson, Doug DuBois, Paul Fusco, Nan Goldin, Takashi Homma, Eirik Johnson, William Klein, Josef Koudelka, Mary Ellen Mark, Sally Mann, Susan Meiselas, Joel Meyerowitz, Richard Misrach, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Erwin Olaf, Martin Parr, Thomas Ruff, Sebastião Salgado, Stephen Shore, Paul Strand, Jonathan Torgovnik, Alex Webb, and Edward Weston, among others.

Aperture’s sixtieth anniversary programming in 2012 will explore the future of publishing in the digital age, as well as highlighting and championing the unique properties and histories of photography and the photobook form. More details about Aperture’s plans to celebrate its sixtieth birthday will be announced in the coming months.

Parrish Art Museum announces the publication, in association with D Giles Limited, London, of three important books focused on the Museum’s permanent collection.

Fairfield Porter: Raw—The Creative Process of an American Master
Written by Klaus Ottmann. 96 pages: 45 color, 25 black-and-white illustrations. Softcover.

American Landscapes: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum
Written by Alicia Longwell. 104 pages; 45 color and 5 black-and-white illustrations. Softcover.

First Impressions: Nineteenth-Century American Master Prints
Written by Alicia Longwell. 96 pages; 75 color and 11 black-and-white illustrations. Softcover.

“In anticipation of our move to a new facility with galleries dedicated to the installation of our collection, we feel it is especially appropriate to be releasing the first major publications devoted to the Museum’s holdings,” notes Parrish Director Terrie Sultan.

The three publications have been made possible through a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, with research supported through the Museum’s Werner and Maren Otto Endowment Fund for the Study of the Art and Artists of Eastern Long Island.

www.parrishart.org