SAVE THE DATES..TWO GREAT WORKSHOPS COMING UP!

July 17, 2010 at Unique...Engagement Shoot Presentation with Mario..

Get new ideas to enrich your own engagement shoots...July 17th at Unique University in Fairfield with Chapter President, Mario Cornejo, CPP.

Henri Cartier Bresson Exhibit at MOMA-One More Week!!

From the MOMA exhibit web site:

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) is one of the most original, accomplished, influential, and beloved figures in the history of photography. His inventive work of the early 1930s helped define the creative potential of modern photography, and his uncanny ability to capture life on the run made his work synonymous with “the decisive moment”—the title of his first major book. After World War II (most of which he spent as a prisoner of war) and his first museum show (at MoMA in 1947), he joined Robert Capa and others in founding the Magnum photo agency, which enabled photojournalists to reach a broad audience through magazines such as Life while retaining control over their work. In the decade following the war, Cartier-Bresson produced major bodies of photographic reportage on India and Indonesia at the time of independence, China during the revolution, the Soviet Union after Stalin’s death, the United States during the postwar boom, and Europe as its old cultures confronted modern realities. For more than twenty-five years, he was the keenest observer of the global theater of human affairs—and one of the great portraitists of the twentieth century.

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/968

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Broadway on a Week Night...

Why not treat yourself to a week night at the theater. Several good discount clubs, including TheaterMania and TDF. TDF tickets can be as low as $29.95! Through TheaterMania--if your timing is right--you can get "free" Broadway tickets (about 12 times/year).

MODOTTI is the story of a young European woman, Tina Modotti, who falls in love with an American photographer, Edward Weston. The two run off to Mexico together to join the cultural revolution. In Mexico, artists and revolutionaries are joining forces to develop new ideas; morality is changing; radical beliefs are taking hold; politics and art are twins in faith. Taking on the mantle of another country's politics and issues is a young person's adventure, one that is bound to have dire consequences.

Photos by Edward Weston

Woodstock, NY Center for Photography Seeks Submissions..

It's a great place...Why not submit???

360 tour of CS5 with Jim La Sala June 16th!!

Montclair Art Museum Current Exhibit..

A Force for Change: African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald Fund

Feb. 7 - July 25, 2010

A Force for Change is the first exhibition to explore the legacy of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, created in 1917 by the well known Chicago businessman and philanthropist. The Rosenwald Fund's Fellowship Program was designed to foster black leadership through the arts, literature, and scholarship, and between 1928 and 1948, the program awarded stipends to hundreds of African American artists, writers, and scholars across many disciplines.

The exhibition presents the artistic products of Julius Rosenwald’s support and includes more than 60 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by 22 Rosenwald fellows, as well as an original short documentary film. The artists in the exhibition are among the foremost of their era: Elizabeth Catlett, Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence, Gordon Parks, Rose Piper, Augusta Savage, Charles White, Hale Woodruff, and more. The exhibition was organized for the Spertus Museum, Chicago, by guest curator Daniel Schulman.

Street Photography at the Met-NYC

Leon Levinstein (American, 1910–1988), an unheralded master of street photography, is best known for his candid and unsentimental black–and–white figure studies made in New York City neighborhoods from Times Square and the Lower East Side to Coney Island. This exhibition, drawn exclusively from the Metropolitan's collection, will feature some forty photographs that reflect the artist's fearless approach to the medium. Levinstein's graphic virtuosity—seen in raw, expressive gestures and seemingly monumental bodies—is balanced by his unusual compassion for his off–beat subjects from the demimonde.

Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
June 8, 2010–October 17, 2010

For Flower & Poetry Lovers...NYBG/Bronx

Poetry and Emily Dickinson--fabulous exhibit at NYBG in Bronx-only a few more days!! She was a gardener first and a published poet after her death. If you garden in Zone 6 you'll recognize all the plants she loved--roses, lilies, dianthus, hollyhock, daisies, tulips, dandelions, wildflowers, grapes, apples, figs and more!!

www.nybg.org

Photo by Nancy Katz

Join MIchelle Schaller as a Volunteer for 9/11 Event!

Below is a note from our new Chapter Secretary Michelle Schaller after she attended a committee meeting for what will be a fabulous 9/11 tribute to the Canine Search and Rescue community. Nancy Katz, also a PPANJ North Jersey Chapter Board Member, is the Photography Chair for the event entitled "Finding One Another" and is looking for more PPANJ volunteers. North Jersey Chapter member Aileen Tweer has also generously volunteered to help. Please contact Nancy at nkatz@zazacreative.com

"I attended an awe inspiring meeting on Saturday in support of the upcoming 9/11 10th Anniversary tribute to the Canine Search and Rescue Community. I am looking forward to donating my time in making these events of Sept. 2011 a great success!. We are looking for more volunteers to help with photography, behind the scenes tasks, etc. as well as donors. If you would be interested or know someone who would, please pass the information on to get in touch with Nancy Katz who's the photography chair at nkatz@zazacreative.com". Michelle Schaller

We will need many photographers in NYC on September 10, 2011 for the full day of events that will be taking place. These events are a project of the Tails of Hope Foundation. Please contact me!!! nkatz@zazacreative.com

Lunch and Learn with fridayphotoschool.com

Ever watch a seminar online from fridayphotoschool.com??

Here's a quick, easy way to get in some learning over a Friday lunch. For $10 while you're eating lunch, you can enjoy a seminar with some top people in our field. I just watched a seminar on outdoor lighting and fill flash. It was beneficial and I'll definitely work more consistently with my light meter. Suggestion--forward your phones so you don't interrupt your concentration.

Let us know what you think!! Have any experiences you'd like to share???

Enjoy!! www.fridayphotoschool.com

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Join PPANJ/North for CS5 Workshop by Jim LaSala...June 16th

WE ALWAYS MEET ON WEDNESDAYS FOR CHAPTER MEETINGS AT UNIQUE IN FAIRFIELD, NJ!!

JUNE 16TH!!!

Take a Film Break...Hoboken Film Festival

Come to the great town of Teaneck for 6!!! days of unique film as the

Hoboken International Film Festival takes place right

on Cedar Lane at the Teaneck Movie Theater. Edgy, new, cutting edge.

Hollywood is coming to the jersey side of the Hudson!!

http://www.hobokeninternationalfilmfestival.com

New Chapter Officers Raring to Go on Your Behalf!!!

Your 2010-11 Board Members had a productive strategy meeting on June 2 at President Mario Cornejo's great studio in Kenilworth, NJ. Other officers are (first row/l-r): Nancy Katz (Newsletters/Blog), Kathy Harris (Membership), Michelle Schaller (Secretary) and (second row/l-r) : Mario Cornejo (President), Jim Roselli (Programming) and David Fischman (Treasurer).

A major goal of the newly elected team of Board members--to give you the best programming possible and make your membership in PPANJ filled with significant networking. educational and social opportunities all year long.