Author: LBM

I’m thrilled to announce that Broken Manual will be opening on Friday, June 10th, at Loock Gallery in Berlin (6-9pm). To accompany the exhibition, Loock Galerie will present Somewhere to Disappear, a film by Laure Flammarion and Arnaud Uyttenhove about the making of Broken Manual. The screening takes place in the Berlin cinema Arsenal on Friday, 10 June, at 5.30 pm.

Due to a respiratory illness (fricking whooping cough!) I regret that I’m unable to travel to Berlin for this extraordinary night. I’d give anything to be there.

Harper’s Books is pleased to present “Alec Soth’s Lonely Boy Magazine,” an exhibition of photographs from two interrelated projects: “The Loneliest Man in Missouri,” and “The Most Beautiful Woman in Georgia.” In conjunction with the exhibition, we are also excited to announce the release of Lonely Boy Mag No. A-2, published by Soth’s imprint Little Brown Mushroom, and featuring work from “The Most Beautiful Woman in Georgia.” In addition to Soth, the show will also contain work by Todd Hido, Peter Davidson and Chad States, all contributors to Lonely Boy Mag No. A-2.

More info here.

Our good Italian friends, Cesuralab, are hosting a workshop with Lise Sarfati on June 18th-19th. More info here (PDF).

Thanks to everyone who came to sold out screening of Somewhere To Disappear in Minneapolis. It was a great night. There is a nice little post on Krista Tippett’s blog about the film here. Be sure to check out the upcoming screenings in Toronto (though I’ve heard it is sold out) and New York.

Want the film to come to your city? Let the producers know on the Somewhere To Disappear Facebook Page.

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I’m thrilled that the documentary film, Somewhere To Disappear, is beginning to make its way out into the world. There are three screenings coming up soon:

MINNEAPOLIS: Monday, May 2nd, 7pm at the Minneapolis/St. Paul Film Festival. (I’ll be at the screening).

TORONTO: Thursday May 5th at 7pm and Saturday, May 7th at 1:15pm at the HotDocs Festival. (The filmmakers will be at the screening).

NEW YORK: Monday, May 9th at 8pm at The New School. (Both the filmmakers and I will be at the screening).

Alec Soth is now represented by Sean Kelly Gallery in New York

Press release here (PDF)

Sean Kelly Gallery here

In order to raise money for the Postcards From America project that I just announced, we are selling a few different items on the project website. After only a few hours, we’ve sold a bunch of the book/postcard sets. This edition is limited to 500 and we’re only selling 250 before the trip (the price will likely be raised afterward). Since some of the readers of this blog are avid book collectors, I suggest buying this one sooner than later. Order yours here.

I can’t begin to tell you how excited I am about the new Magnum project, Postcards From America. This May, I’m going to be joining four other photographers (Jim Goldberg, Susan Meiselas, Chris Anderson, Mikhael Subotzky) and the writer Ginger Strand for a two week road trip from San Antonio to Oakland.

This is a unique project for Magnum. We are working collaboratively and are hoping to engage much more directly with our audience. At the beginning of the trip we will be doing a public event at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin. And at the end we’re going to do a pop-up exhibition somewhere in Oakland.

We also hope to connect with people during the run of the trip in a variety of ways:

• On our project website you can sign up to receive postcards from the photographers or a limited edition book/prints from the trip.
• You can follow our progress on our Tumblr blog (and also on Facebook and Twitter).
• Through our Flickr page, you can contribute your own images of America.

Cool, right?