Please join us at Sasha Wolf Gallery on Thursday, November 4th, to celebrate the launch of Umbrage Editions’ newest book, Paul McDonough: New York Photographs 1968 – 1978. The book is being released in conjunction with the opening of an exhibition of photographer Paul McDonough’s work, New York Photographs 1973 – 1978, which will display through January 8th, 2011. (These photographs, along with McDonough’s work from a previous exhibition at Sasha Wolf Gallery, make up the aforementioned monograph.)

Paul McDonough arrived in New York City in 1967 with a 35mm camera and entrée, through childhood friend Tod Papageorge, to the photography workshops and social networks of street photographer Garry Winogrand. Emerging from an early career as a studio easel painter, McDonough found photographing on the streets of New York liberating: “it satisfied my sketching impulses… I learned to carry a camera everywhere, all the time, loaded with 400-speed film.”

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Please join Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent author Mario Tama for two events in New Orleans next week:

OCTOBER 24 (4 – 6 PM): Book signing and lecture, sponsored by Pirates Alley Faulkner Society Inc. and the Louisiana State Museum at The Cabildo, Jackson Square.

The Faulkner Society states that ‘the images are so “New Orleans” they bring you to tears.’ The event is free, and to reserve copies of Coming Back in advance with a credit card, contact faulkhouse@aol.com or (504) 524-2490. The event will feature refreshments and music. For more information, see here or here.

OCTOBER 25 (5 – 7 PM): Book signing at Borders Bookstore, 3338 St. Charles Avenue.

Mario’s photos will also feature as part of Living With Hurricanes, an interactive multimedia exhibition opening on October 26 at the Louisiana State Museum, Jackson Square.

Pirouetteblog, a website dedicated to children’s design, news and inspiration, reviewed Umbrage’s Color Bears on October 10, calling it an “aesthetic, bold” book, and one that “will engage any toddler at first glance.”

Click here for the full review.

Color Bears is available from Umbrage, at the MOMA design store, and www.turnaround-uk.com.

October 12, 2010

The October 2010 edition of New Orleans Magazine reviewed Umbrage’s recently published book, Mario Tama’s Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent. The Read and Spin column of the magazine featured the book and called it a “historically important book,” and one that, “showcases powerful portraits.”

For the full review see:

http://www.myneworleans.com/New-Orleans-Magazine/October-2010/Read-amp-Spin/