Tim Baskerville from The Nocturnes reports on his upcoming show:

CCI Gallery (Berkeley, CA) is showing some of my Mare Island night work (6 prints), as well as some b/w work (six prints, done in the daylight hours!) of San Francisco’s Historic Streetcars, in “Collective Memories,” part of their 50th Anniversary Celebration. The work is up thru June 2nd, with a big reception on May 19, 2007 from 6-10pm. Merchants in the “gourmet ghetto” of North Berkeley are participating in the ArtWalk festivities which mark the ACCI anniversary, as well as the 40th anniversary of the Berkeley Art Center, where we are also members.

Click the title link for more info.

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Henry Wessel: Celebrating the Views That Others Looked Past – New York Times:

For the last 30 years or so, Mr. Wessel has been photographing the American West. Not the mountains and redwoods, but the parking lots, body builders, nude beaches and absurdly trimmed shrubbery. And the light.

He is having his moment. There have been shows lately at the Robert Mann and Charles Cowles galleries in New York. The exhibition here has about 80 mostly black-and-white prints that cover his whole career, one whose arc may make you scratch your head yet again at how distracted and fickle the art world can sometimes be.

He‚s a photographer‚s photographer. Born in 1942, he grew up in suburban New Jersey, then studied psychology at Penn State, borrowing a Leica one day from his girlfriend‚s brother. „It really knocked me out,‰ he has recalled. „I had never really seen how a camera could describe something.‰

Wessel’s work is currently on display at SFMOMA, a short drive for me – I need to go soon. (I saw Avedon’s American West photographs at Stanford last week – wow!)

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My brother Richard Mitchell does wonderful photography in the Pacific Northwest, and his work is starting to get the wider attention it deserves. Right now a collection of his photographs is on display at the Washington State Capitol in the offices of Lt. Governor Brad Owen.

Washington State Lieutenant Governor Brad Owen, Linda Owen, and Richard Mitchell. Lieutenant Governor’s Front Office, January, 2007.

Visit the Touching Light Photography web site to view more of Richard’s work.
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My brother Richard Mitchell does wonderful photography in the Pacific Northwest, and his work is starting to get the wider attention it deserves. Right now a collection of his photographs is on display at the Washington State Capitol in the offices of Lt. Governor Brad Owen.

Washington State Lieutenant Governor Brad Owen, Linda Owen, and Richard Mitchell. Lieutenant Governor’s Front Office, January, 2007.

Visit the Touching Light Photography web site to view more of Richard’s work.
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