October 6, 2011
Snap Happy !
Atlanta Celebrates Photography (ACP) hosts a month of photo-perfect events in our fair city
By Nancy Staab
From Dorothy O’Connor’s dreamy installation art to celeb shooter Martin Schoeller, Atlanta is papered in arrestingphoto images all month long. Here are the highlights.
ACP HIGHLIGHTS 2011
All events free and open to public unless otherwise noted.For more information visit ACPinfo.org
Oct. 4-Nov. 1SCAD-Atlanta
hosts a special exhibit of white-hot,international artist
Marina Abramovic
’s works. The exhibitincludes three of her videos and an iconic series of herphotos.
Reception Oct. 20 at 6:30PM
Oct. 6
Known for his unflinching, see-every-freckle, extreme close-ups of celebs (clientsinclude Jack Nicholson, Angelina Jolie and Cate Blanchett, to name a few),
MartinSchoeller
takes to the lecture podium at
SCAD-Atlanta
at
6:30 PM
. Schoeller cut histeeth as the former assistant to Annie Leibovits and has created arresting covers forglossy mags like
Rolling Stone, GQ and Esquire.
Oct. 8
Local photographer
Dorothy O’Connor
creates dreamy tableaux of sleeping andwaking beauties posed in surreal nature-inflected scenes and then photographs themas the final relic. For this night only O’Connor opens up her studio so viewers canactually see one of her tableau vivants with a live model in real time, from
7:30 to10PM
at her studio at
1371 Fairbanks Street, Atlanta, GA, 30310.