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ARE YOU REALLY MY FRIEND?

2011-07-02T14:17:00.000-07:00

"Dinner with Karin & Barry, Auburn, Maine" (2010)

Maine-based photographer, co-founder and member of the Bakery Photographic Collective Tanja Hollander recently began a complex and worldwide adventure called "Are you really my friend?: The Facebook Portrait Project" in order to examine "how we define friendship and who we let into our private yet very public online lives" through the social terrain of online media.

"Ben Waxman, Washington, DC" (2011)

The Project began with 626 facebook friends, and has since grown as she continues to travel to her friends' homes revealing intimate portraits of her "real friends". She keeps the website updated in a blog format, chronicling in between shoots a Cambodian pig roast in Gray, Maine, late nights in New Orleans during Jazz Fest, the consequences of Matisse buying a portrait at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, as well as letters written in support of a pay-what-you-can sale.

"What started out as a personal documentary on friendship and environmental portraiture has turned into an exploration of American culture, relationships, generosity and compassion, family structure, community building, story telling and meal sharing, the economy and class, our relationship to technology & travel in the 21st century, social networking, memory, and the history of the portrait. Following in the footsteps of the FSA photographers and Robert Frank she has out to see America and to record how our society uses photography, the portrait social media to create and define our existence."(*)


"J. Nordberg & Pamela Albanese with Fluffita the cat, Los Angeles, California" (2010)


"Nell, Peter & Deb Whitney, Portland, Maine" (2010)

"Emma Hollander, Boston, Massachusetts" (2010)

Still very much in its birth, the project has already been awarded a Good Idea Grant from the Maine Arts Commission, and is sponsored by Color Services (Needham, MA) and any individual who takes part in one of her fundraising efforts.

Tanja also encourages anyone she can to "like" the facebook page in order to spread the influence.

Cheers,

Not to be disregarded

2011-04-23T15:45:00.000-07:00

Many apologies for the lack of posting in the past year...
This will start again in the very present future.
With love, BPiC.

2010-07-09T07:51:00.000-07:00

There is this amazing website out there called Yeah. Yeah allows anyone to post a picture from their camera on their site, which is just a constantly changing montage of cell phone pictures. Its pretty amazing, fascinating, and well genius I think.
to upload a picture email your photos to yeah@yeahyeahyeahyeahyeah.com

sooooo yeah, check it out.

2010-07-02T11:20:00.000-07:00

Tonight for First Friday The Maine Historical Society is presenting ....

Photographs from 1860-1975
Exposed: Rare Photographs of Life in Maine
Black and White Historic Photographs

Don't miss it!

2010-06-11T11:50:00.001-07:00

I've recently come across two photo books of portraits that struck a chord. Usually black and white portraiture doesn't really strike my fancy all that much. Part of the appeal of the two books here are the photographers personal stories. I suppose portrait photographers have to have an interesting story themselves in order to successfully translate other peoples stories through film.

Portraits from the Belly of the Whale by Michael Garlington is a sardonic collection of portraiture of the mad, the grotesque and the dramatic. He examines the dark peripheral of humanity. What makes his adventures in portraits so fascinating to me is that he would drive around in a "photo car." This was his car, but it was covered in his work. The car was part self promotion, part subject enticer, and part ice- breaker. A strange bird that one.

DISFARMER; The Vintage Prints, is a series of glass negative portraiture prints salvaged from the Barn studio of Mike Disfarmer in rural Arkansas. Disfarmer, born Mike Meyers legally changed his name to Mike Disfarmer in order to disassociate himself with the agrarian roots that connected him to his family and community. He even claimed that as a baby, a tornado swept him up and dropped him at his family's home. This book is a cohesive collection of his portraits. His story matches the intriguing and peculiar nature of his work.

2010-06-11T11:34:00.000-07:00

Sorry about the extended delay in action here. It's been a while and there is plenty of news to post....

For starters I recently took an trip that landed me in Austin, TX for a hot second. One of the best thing that city has to offer is a little place called Domy Books. A well curated and merchandised selection of art books swallows you whole upon entering. The place really eminates a sort of charismatic chaos, chock full of comics, zines, photo books, collage, contemporary art etc. Essentially its a beautiful mess of a store full of cool. Not to mention the manager Russell took pity on our hobo-ness and landed us a great place to stay! Great staff, great books, great city. What more could you ask for!?

Check it out if you are ever in town.

EVENT - PHOTO TALK - COLE CASWELL & JESSICA GEORGE

2010-04-08T05:49:00.000-07:00

EVENT - PHOTO TALK - MIKAEL KENNEDY

2010-03-28T07:45:00.000-07:00

Mikael's website : www.mikaelkennedy.com

2010-03-07T07:11:00.000-08:00

I posted earlier about the salons/ lectures that we plan to hold.

Well, the time has come and Bakery member Tanja Hollander kicks it off with a slideshow and discussion about the work she has created from her residency at La Napoule Art Foundation

TUESDAY MARCH 9th

7:30pm -- 9:00pm

2010-03-04T17:40:00.000-08:00

Time to revisit a beautiful favorite...... ladies and gentlemen

Richard Misrach

2010-02-24T15:05:00.000-08:00

Natalie Conn and Peter Smith will be presenting their ongoing, collaborative documentary photography project "The Sunday Best" at Space TOMORROW evening for Pecha Kucha. Pecha Kucha is a night chock full of ideas. It allows all sorts of designers, and artists to present their work and thoughts in a panel format. The rule is 20 slides, 20 seconds each.

Don't miss it!

2010-02-18T15:24:00.001-08:00

Former Portland hotshot and current San Francisco renegade (and friend) Jay Carroll has a pretty neat thing going with One Trip Pass. On the website there lies a virtual inspiration board..... a thematic collection of cross-generational, cross-cultural photography. It's pretty great, check it out.

2010-02-18T15:23:00.001-08:00

Bakery Collective Member Tonee Harbert

2010-02-16T19:38:00.000-08:00

I am currently attempting to raise funds for a collaborative project with Sara Lemieux. I wont bore you with all the details, just follow the link and watch our video! Take a look, if you are interested to know more or have any suggestions for the project, the trip, or just want to meet up and/or have cool spots to guide us to or maybe a friend of a friend who has a couch in mississippi that would all be great!

2010-02-16T19:29:00.001-08:00

Sally Mann, an already legendary contemporary photographer who works primarily within alternative processes has just released a new book published by Aperture titled "Proud Flesh." The subject has always played the primary role in her work, this time she turned her antique camera on her husband. Conscientious blog published an essay or statement about the work prepared by Mann.

"I am a woman who looks. Within traditional narratives, women who look, especially women who look unflinchingly at men, have been punished. Take poor Psyche, punished for all time for daring to lift the lantern to finally see her lover... It is a testament to Larry's tremendous dignity and strength that he allowed me to take the pictures that I did. The gods might reasonably have slapped this particular lantern out of my raised hand, for before me lay a man as naked and vulnerable as any wretch strung across the mythical, vulture-topped rock. At our ages, we are past the prime of life, given to sinew and sag, and Larry bears, with his trademark god-like nobility, the further affliction of a late-onset muscular dystrophy. That he was so willing is both heartbreaking and terrifying at once."

2010-02-13T09:31:00.000-08:00

Parkside and dentist ride.

-joshua loring

2010-02-12T08:09:00.001-08:00

Elisabeth Bernstein currently has a show up titled "Scapes" at the Wild Project in NYC. The photographs are of mini environments created from paint pigment. The prints are reminiscent of the desolate and seductive natural landscape..."her images resemble mountainous terrains from in indeterminate time."

Up until March 6th

2010-02-06T16:44:00.000-08:00

We have some pretty incredible workshops coming up soon at the bakery. Included in this exciting list are a few alternative process classes. The first coming up on February 20th is a wet plate collodion workshop with Keliy Anderson-Stately. We also plan to teach you all about pinhole photography, cyanotypes and platinum palladium printing, that is if you sign up in time.......email us!

2010-02-05T07:24:00.000-08:00

Local Bookstore Rabelais carries a book entitled "The Book of Bread"
It's a wonderfully strange book and according to intern Jenny Gold who directed me towards it, "beautifully odd." Published in 1903 the photographer was never credited. The book consists of 11 color and 27 black and white photographs. As you would imagine, the book is about, Bread. How to make it, what it is, and most importantly the obscure and grotesque shape it takes.
It does seems a little too appropriate given that we are the Bakery Phtographic Collective.....

2010-02-02T07:11:00.000-08:00

The new Spring 2010 d.a.p catalog is amazing!!!!

Aside from incredible "best of" art books such as Joel Sternfeld and "An Essential Photography Library," d.a.p put together the perfect list of some really important and historically relevant publications either recently released or upcoming. For example...

Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre: The Ruins of Detroit

An architectural and photographic chronicle of Detroit's once most established and ornate buildings in beautiful decay. It seems to be a sort of visual commentary on the post-apocaplyptic fall of the post-modern empire. This book includes photographs of the Michigan Central Station and United Artist buildings.

The Humble Arts Foundation: Collector's Guide to Emerging Photography

This publication is the foundation's bi-annual book merging and blurring the lines simultaneously between professional, artist, novice and "emerging."

And finally something that I can't wait to to read...

Phillip Gefter: Photography After Frank

Photography After Frank is a collection of essays written by former NYT writer and photo editor Phillip Gefter. The author uses Robert Frank's "The Americans" as a foundational tool to explain and bridge contemporary photography. Throughout Photography After Frank, Gefter deftly demonstrates Frank's legacy in the work of dozens of important individual artists who followed in his wake, from Lee Friedlander and Nan Goldin to Stephen Shore and Ryan McGinley.

(from artbook)

2010-01-31T07:44:00.001-08:00

We are going to start holding monthly salons. The idea is we bring in a photographer, they project their work in our cozy living room, give us the run-down and then we all talk about it. These events will be open to the public. If you are interested in showing us your work and having a discussion about it, or just want more information so you can come then please contact us!

It should be fun!

Upcoming salons will include some collective members.....

Scott Peterman

and Tanja Hollander

2010-01-30T11:08:00.000-08:00

Trifecta Publications is looking for submissions for it's first issue. It sounds like a very conceptual and free form art journal. Guidelines are minimal, they just want your art! Fifty four copies of it to be exact.

2010-01-30T08:38:00.001-08:00

Dead of it

2010-01-25T16:59:00.000-08:00

We are now accepting applications for residencies!

We have great facilities and I know that this kind of set up is hard to find. If this interests you please send your info our way. And check out our website for more information on requirements, equipment etc.

This is the mill we live in...

This is the space we work in...

And we're not far from here....

BAM.

2010-01-25T16:52:00.000-08:00

Portland Maine... rainy snowy icy ocean

2010-01-24T19:24:00.000-08:00

Kyle Cook via Fjord Artists Space

2010-01-24T18:59:00.000-08:00

A few years ago Charlotte Oestervang took part in the Christiania Research in Residence program (which, I should add currently has open call for submissions) and documented the Christiania residents with a large format Camera. The result is stunning, classic documentary portraiture.

2010-01-23T14:24:00.000-08:00

Miranda Lehman

2010-01-22T09:30:00.000-08:00

Jonathan Levitt's selected photographs from the series "Wake to Songbirds Wake to Crows" is currently up at

41 Wharf st. For more Info check out PTLDME

2010-01-21T23:13:00.000-08:00

Jason Lazarus: Heinecken Studies via hafny blog

2010-01-21T23:03:00.000-08:00

If you haven't already heard of 20x200, please inform yourself now.

cheap art. bada bing.

2010-01-21T22:53:00.000-08:00

Geoffrey Drew, a local Kennebunk Art teacher, has a great show up at a great space... the Kennebunk Free Library Exhibition room ("Hank's Room"). I'm a little late on posting this, as the opening was on the 8th of January, but it will be up for a while, so check it out.

2010-01-20T07:41:00.000-08:00

We are bombarded with Maine tourism propaganda all year long, so I picked a few of the best "Maine Lighthouse" photos I could find...

why not?

2010-01-19T17:12:00.000-08:00

Neil Krug....check out his photo book "Pulp Art"

2010-01-18T18:43:00.000-08:00

TWO RAD BLUE BOOKS

"From Blue to Blue" by Martien Mulder

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"Blue Forest" by Morten Andersen

2010-01-18T18:33:00.000-08:00

Faye Bovee...via: The Sunday Best

2010-01-17T19:11:00.000-08:00

Sunday's Wonderful Random Flickr: Coquinete

2010-01-17T16:34:00.000-08:00

Nina Pohl

2010-01-17T16:20:00.000-08:00

500 Polaroids from Mikeal Kennedy's 'Passport to Trespass' are now represented by the Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art Gallery in NYC

2010-01-16T17:37:00.001-08:00

If you find yourself in NYC please go here...

Clic Bookstore and Gallery is a curated space tastefully filled with beautiful photo books ranging from classics to small press limited edition wonders. They also represent Wayne Levin

2010-01-16T14:10:00.000-08:00

"Crushed" Photographs by Jason Fulford Published by J&L Books

2010-01-16T13:53:00.000-08:00

Radius Books just released Grasslands/ Separating Species with photographs by Michael P. Berman, Krista Elrick, Dana Fritz, David Taylor, Jo Whaley. Essays by Mary Anne Redding, William DeBuys, Rebecca Solnit.

2010-01-16T13:45:00.000-08:00

The Exposure Project has extended submissions for Volume 2 of "Graphic Intersections"

2009-10-20T04:37:00.000-07:00

Artist Talk -- Tod Seelie-- October 20th, 8pm-- FREE

at: The Bakery : 90 Bridge Street #265, Westbrook Maine

Free

2009-08-13T16:48:00.000-07:00

For My Best Beloved Sister Mia: An Album of Photographs

by Julia Margaret Cameron

@ the Portland Museum of Art

July 4, 2009 - September 7, 2009

2009-07-10T05:09:00.000-07:00

Portland Museum of Art

Saturday July 11th

3pm-4pm

FREE

Kindred Spirits- An Afternoon with Joyce Tenneson

2009-07-07T06:47:00.000-07:00

SALON- Artist Talk - Siri Kaur - July 14th 8pm FREE

You may remember this mysterious image of Superman in a parking garage as the photograph chosen to advertise Photo A Go-Go 2007. You can find out the story behind this image and the entire series of impersonators called Alter Ego at:

the Bakery on Tuesday night, July 14th– 8pm.

Bakery Artist-in-Residence, Siri Kaur, who is currently an adjunct lecturer at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, will be giving a talk about her portraits and other work.

The event is free.

Don’t miss it!

Torregrossa's presentation at the Bakery Salon

2009-06-24T09:22:00.000-07:00

At last night's Bakery salon, we were treated to a stunning presentation of Kirk Torregrossa's photography from a documentary project that he did while in Vietnam. Torregrossa travelled to Vietnam in early 2009 for 11 weeks to accompany the sculptor Keisha Luce, who is producing a project entitled "Sum and Parts." Casting "documentary sculpture" from real life, Luce worked with Vietnamese people born with deformities due to exposure to the dioxin in Agent Orange used during the Vietnam War. In Vietnam Torregrossa met and photographed many people living with the continuing effects of Agent Orange.

The photographs that Torregrossa presented were alternately beautiful, intense, lively and shocking. The evening began with Jenny, Jessica, and Tonee looking closely at Kirk's black and white contact sheets, to pick their faves. the evening proceeded with Kirk giving a slide show on the digital projector, and explaining the project and his approach, and it ended with a discussion about the project and the photography. Kirk is now in the process of editing and printing the photographs, and will produce a photographic component for an exhibition with Keisha Luce, which will be shown at Dartmouth College, and may be exhibited in Portland at the Salt Center for Documentary Studies, of which he is an alum.

Thanks Kirk for showing us this strong body of work.

Those in attendance were Jenny Gold, Jessica Williams, Tanja Hollander, Tonee Harbert, and two of Kirk's friends Noah and Laura.

To see more about the project, visit www.sumandparts.com or www.kirktorregrossa.com

2009-06-23T11:41:00.000-07:00

SALON tonight- June 23rd, 7pm
Artist Talk
Kirk Torregrossa

Free @ The Bakery
90 Bridge Street #265
Westbrook, ME

2009-06-22T05:31:00.000-07:00

THE SUNDAY BEST

- Audio postcard about Galen Richmond:

2009-06-20T06:23:00.000-07:00

Port City Show
Opening tonight: June 20, 4-7pm
@ Portland Photo Works

142 High Street, #2nd Floor
State Building

2009-06-15T13:35:00.001-07:00

BAKERY PHOTO COLLECTIVE Group Show!

-where: Two Point Gallery (a new space at 564 Congress Street)
-when: June 16-July 12

opening: June 19th, 5-9pm

(photo: Elizabeth Atterbury)

2009-06-14T09:16:00.000-07:00

The Sunday Best

(photo by: Briget Ganske)

The Sunday Best is featuring an amazing audio slideshow by Briget Ganske. This was one of the projects she made while studying at The Salt Institute.

2009-06-12T12:58:00.000-07:00

RISE Gallery- Mixed Media Group Show
TOMORROW- Saturday, June 13th 5-8pm

(photo: Sophie Dougher)
Artists:
Amanda Edwards, Andrea Parker, Andrew O'Connell-Shevenell, Bruce Shields, Emily Delamater, Heidi Powell, Judy O'donnell, Julie Kuceris-Gray, Kate Boughton, Kirk Torregrossa, Lawrence Manning, Matthew Robbins, Rebecca Goldenthal, Sophie Dougher, Tracy Ginn, and Valerie McCaffrey.

RISE
864 Broadway
South Portland, ME 04106

Disparition @ Zero Station

2009-06-03T20:08:00.000-07:00

Disparition
An exhibition of contemporary artists influenced by collage.
Works by Aimee Belanger, Jacob Bluestone, Derek Jackson, John Skibo, and others.
Curated by A. D. Jacobson.

Zero Station
222 Anderson St.
Portland, ME

June 5th-July 11th (Wed-Sat)
Preview Thursday June 4th 5-7pm

La Disparition was published in 1969 by Georges Perec. The English translation is titled A Void. The novel follows a group of friends as they search for a missing companion. It was written entirely without the letter e.

Last chance to check out the John Coffer Exhibition!

2009-05-26T10:55:00.000-07:00

John Coffer's first solo museum exhibition, John Coffer, "Photographist," at the Colby College Museum of Art is coming to a close on May 31st. The show includes many of Coffer's "Mammoths," 20 x 24 inch tintypes. Be sure to check out the exhibition if you haven't already.

Images from John Coffer's "The Daily Tintype."
http://www.johncoffer.com/

2009-05-26T08:34:00.000-07:00

Contemporary Maine Photographers show:

Make sure to visit the group show at UNE. Twelve photographers including The Bakery's Tanja Hollander!

Up until June 7.

(photos by: Fran Vita-Taylor & David Brooks Stress)

2009-05-21T05:29:00.000-07:00

SALT INSTITUTE SHOW TONIGHT!
final exhibition for Spring 2009: May 21st 5pm-8pm

561 Congress Street.
Radio. Photography. Writing. Multi-Media:

(photo: Keith Lane)

2009-05-11T04:32:00.000-07:00

Salt Institute for Documentary Studies final exhibit:
May 21st: 5-8pm: 561 Congress Street, Portland Maine.

Featuring Maine Documentary stories in
Radio, Writing and Photography.

May 1st, Portland First Friday Art Walk!

2009-04-27T12:12:00.000-07:00

If you are in Portland this friday night be sure to stop in at MECA's Baxter building to check out photography from this years juniors. It will be a combination of completed works throughout the semester along with new works in progress to be completed next year as seniors! MECA's super 8 class will also be screening their finished masterpieces throughout the night, inside and outside the building. Come on by anytime between 6:00 and 8:00pm at 619 Congress street (right across from Coffee By Design). Hope to see you there!

Brittany
*MECA junior photography student and Bpic intern : )

Salt Institute Exhibit

2009-04-23T18:05:00.000-07:00

The Salt Institute has an alumni show up right now. It is open from 9am-4:30pm Monday through Friday, or you could go to their closing on May 1st during the First Friday Art Walk.

561 Congress Street, Portland.

Opportunity: [Maine] Individual Artist Fellowship

2009-04-23T08:02:00.000-07:00

Maine Arts Commission's Individual Artist Fellowship deadline is around the corner. This fellowship aims to reward artistic excellence, advance the careers of Maine artists, and promote public awareness regarding the eminence of the creative sector in Maine.
Deadline: June 12, 2009

Fellowship amount $13,000

For more information: http://mainearts.maine.gov/artists/fellowships/index.shtml

Exhibition: Tanja Hollander

2009-04-23T07:53:00.000-07:00

2009 Portland Museum of Art Biennial
April 8, 2009 - June 7, 2009
Tanja Hollander

Exhibition: Scott Peterman

2009-04-23T07:41:00.000-07:00

DANZIGER PROJECTS
May 1 - June 26, 2009
Scott Peterman

The exhibition "Location" looks at some of the many ways the concept of location in photography differs from "landscape". In geography, location is a position or point in physical space that something occupies on Earths' surface. In photography, location has multiple meanings ranging from the practice of selecting a specific place as an environment for taking pictures outside of the studio to being the subject of the photograph itself. A location photograph pictures a place that speaks to the photographer, but what he or she does with this feeling is as much a part of the photograph as the exact geographic co-ordinates pictured. Unlike the landscape photographer, the location photographer is not just observing, but controlling and provoking a collaboration with the place photographed.

Artist Talk: An-My Le

2009-04-22T18:33:00.000-07:00

An-My Le spoke at Colby college yesterday.