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This Saturday Randall Scott Gallery will be holding an opening reception for a solo exhibition of work by the very talented and delightful Lori Nix. I recently paid a visit to Lori’s studio and it reminded me of Gepetto’s workshop if Gepetto kept sheets of extruded foam and tiny boxes filled with improvised tools and miniature model odds and ends. You can get a sense of Lori and her work environment by watching this video of her on Coolhunting.

Also on display-and just in time for the holiday-will be a few photos from my Halloween in Harlem series. Think of it as a seasonal show-let.

If you are in DC this Saturday you definitely need to be at this opening and see Lori’s photographs.

Here are the details:

Lori Nix: The City
October 27 — December 8
Opening Reception: October 27 7PM - 9PM

Randall Scott Gallery
1326 14th Street NW
Washington, D.C.

I have been following this story for a while and it looks like more rational heads have finally prevailed. Some would say this type of event is good because it advances public discourse about acceptable community standards, but I never find police raids and confiscations to be an effective opening statement in any debate. My question is does ruling something ‘not indecent’ mean it is in fact decent?

Elton John’s Seized Goldin Photo Is `Not Indecent,’ BBC Reports
Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) — Elton John’s photograph of two girls by Nan Goldin, seized by police from an art exhibition last month, “is not an indecent image,” the BBC said, citing the U.K. Crown Prosecution Service.

The photo, “Klara and Edda Belly-Dancing,” was seized by Northumbria police from the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Newcastle, England, while on loan from the singer-songwriter. John said on his Web site that the work had been published around the world “without any objections of which we are aware” and auctioned twice by Sotheby’s.

Goldin’s 1998 picture, which had the title “Edda and Klara Belly-Dancing,” sold for $3,000 in 2004 after failing to sell in 2002, Sotheby’s said in an e-mail.

John, an art collector, owns thousands of photos by artists including Man Ray, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Diane Arbus and Ansel Adams, according to his Web site. He bought Goldin’s picture as part of the “Thanksgiving” series at London’s White Cube gallery in 1999, he said.

Since the last time I blogged on 10/12, I have been busy with a number of things. First, and foremost, was the big annual photographica sale put on by the Michigan Photographic Historical Society that took place in Novi on 10/14. I had great help from my friends Ross and Amy, as we had a van full (and then some) of stuff to sell on behalf of MiPHS. We did really well, selling about $1900 worth of cameras, accessories and books, and most importantly, ridding me of about 80% of what was being stored in my garage.

The day before that, Dennis accompanied me to Historic Fort Wayne, just S of Detroit, where we met up with Ralph and wandered around taking shots (mostly with toy cameras) of some interesting dilapidation at the fort. Things are improving there, but nonetheless, the crumbling buildings are interesting material.

Finally, this past weekend, Adrienne and I drove to Marquette to see our daughter, Marjorie, and partake in a Parents’ Weekend at NMU. I’ll blog that separately.

The current issue of American Photo features their selection of the top fifteen emerging photographers and I made the list. Needless to say, I am very humbled by my inclusion with such a fabulous group of talented photographers. Also making American Photo’s list of the “new generation of photo pioneers”: Shen Wei, Donald Weber, Mikhael Subotsky, Jason and Carlos Sanchez, Steven Laxton, Alexandra Catiere, Matt Eich, Camille Seaman, Lyric Cabral, Jehad Nga, Michael Christopher Brown, and Nicolai Howalt and Trine Søndergaard. Be sure sure to pick up a copy of the November/December issue on newsstands now. Or you can ask me for a copy. I believe I’ve cleaned out most of the inventory below 23rd Street.

I’m also featured in an Apple Aperture advertorial in the same issue of American Photo.

This has been a good month for me and magazines. I was included in an October photography edition of Zeit magazin Leben. Zeit magazin Leben is the weekend magazine of Germany’s largest weekly newspaper, Die Zeit. Watering Hole, an image from my Domesticated series, was featured in their “Around the World in 80 Photographs” edition that included works by twenty-five other photographers including Pieter Hugo, Hiroshi Watanabe, and Alec Soth. Good company indeed.

The current issue of American Photo features their selection of the top fifteen emerging photographers and I made the list. Needless to say, I am very humbled by my inclusion with such a fabulous group of talented photographers. Also making American Photo’s list of the “new generation of photo pioneers”: Shen Wei, Donald Weber, Mikhael Subotsky, Jason and Carlos Sanchez, Steven Laxton, Alexandra Catiere, Matt Eich, Camille Seaman, Lyric Cabral, Jehad Nga, Michael Christopher Brown, and Nicolai Howalt and Trine Søndergaard. Be sure sure to pick up a copy of the November/December issue on newsstands now. Or you can ask me for a copy. I believe I’ve cleaned out most of the inventory below 23rd Street.

I’m also featured in a Apple Aperture advertorial in the same issue of American Photo.

This has been a good month for me and magazines. I was included in an October photography edition of Zeit magazin Leben. Zeit magazine Leben is the weekend magazine of Germany’s largest weekly newspaper, Die Zeit. Watering Hole, an image from my Domesticated series, was featured in their “Around the World in 80 Photographs” edition that included works by twenty-five other photographers including Pieter Hugo, Hiroshi Watanabe, and Alec Soth. Good company indeed.

Any time you bring a catfish, a dead chicken, a hand grenade, and a large wildcat into your home you know the results will be magical. Via Best Week Ever comes a series of surreal photos of a Russian household sharing their life with a bizarre family pet.

Sold at Christie’s photography auction Wednesday.

This shot of the Milford Mariner was shot for, but not used in, the National Geographic May/June 2002 issue. The Milford Mariner is a replica of a traditional New Zealand coastal trading scow.

(Photo by David McLain)

Tim Baskerville of The Nocturnes will be leading a night photography workshop at Death Valley, CA on November 23-25, 2007. You can read more information about this trip on the Nocturnes Blog.

(Dream Date #3, by Tim Baskerville)