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Team Gallery, April 2008

Eliz­a­beth Wein­berg com­peted at PHTHRD last week and she rocked. Vote for her.

There’s not a whole of use­ful infor­ma­tion about the first ever New York Photo Fes­ti­val avail­able on the event’s web­site beyond the obvi­ous. It’s going to be held in DUMBO from May 14 – 18. It’s curated jointly by Mar­tin Parr, Les­ley Mar­tin, Tim Bar­ber and Kathy Ryan. It involves four shows, all kinds of awards and things, lec­tures and var­i­ous other pro­ceed­ings. It’s going to be great is my point and now I have one more rea­son to look for­ward to it; I’m going to be in it. Tim Bar­ber is includ­ing a pic­ture of mine his show for the occa­sion, “Var­i­ous Pho­tographs.” So that’s pretty spe­cial, right? There will be more infor­ma­tion at some point, prob­a­bly. I’ll pass it along.

Peter Voelker put on a pretty ter­rific show yes­ter­day. His Meow Meow house gallery was packed wall to wall with peo­ple at the peak of Shake It to the Ground last night and I think it’s safe to say a good time was had by all.

I got to meet a whole bunch of photo friends from the inter­web includ­ing Pete (of course), Andrew, Coley and Daniel. But the list goes on and on.  think the Bal­ti­more City Paper may have popped by for a visit.

The whole thing was a resound­ing suc­cess and has inspired me to do some­thing along the same lines. I hereby announce the cre­ation of Secret Gallery. Shh, don’t tell.

© Eliz­a­beth Weinberg

From today’s New York Times:

No mat­ter how much they try to kill it, the Polaroid is still beloved by art stars and ama­teurs alike. Tonight, as part of the party crew LVHRD’s ongo­ing cul­tural bat­tles, three artists — Jonathan Har­ris, whose work is cur­rently hang­ing in MoMA; Joseph O. Holmes, a street pho­tog­ra­pher rep­re­sented by the Jen Bek­man gallery; and Eliz­a­beth Wein­berg, who spe­cial­izes in shoot­ing indie rock­ers —will stitch together their Polaroid shots in a live-​​action photo mon­tage com­pe­ti­tion. Because the event cel­e­brates the old-​​fashioned art of visual sto­ry­telling, the crowd is — some­what ambigu­ously — encour­aged to dress like grand­mas. Also, there’s an open bar