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Photos in Jerry Siegel’s “Facing South: Portraits of Southern Artists” brim with humanity

Lucky are the individuals whose vocation and avocation are one. Count Jerry Siegel among them.The Atlanta photographer has, for 18 years and counting, merged his passion for shooting people and his pleasure in hanging out with artists into a project that has yielded his new book, “Facing South: Portraits of Southern Artists,” and an exhibit now at the Mobile Museum of Art, which will travel to the Jule Collins Smith Museum at Auburn University (co-sponsor of the book with the University of Alabama Press) and the Telfair Museum’s Jepson Center for the Arts in Savannah. Read more…

Jerry Siegel Featured in Garden and Gun

It’s not often we get a glimpse of the artists behind some of the South’s most iconic works. But Alabama photographer Jerry Siegel has made it his mission to put the artists themselves front and center, capturing Southern painters, potters, photographers, sculptors, and mixed-media visionaries on film. The result is Facing South: Portraits of Southern Artists (University of Alabama Press), a new book that celebrates 100 people whose work has come to define the genre of Southern art in all its variety. Read more and view photos by Siegel…

Black & White Photography by Michael Kenna

Some people see the gray area, but Michael Kenna sees the beauty in black & white. Devoted to non-digital and hand-crafted prints of landscapes and structures, Kenna’s works make color look pale in this month-long exhibit. Read more…

Michael Kenna in Charleston Home Mag

Transport yourself to the peaks of a mountaintop or an age-old cathedral without leaving King Street with Michael Kenna’s intimate landscape shots. Typically working in the dead of night with an hours-long exposure on his camera, Kenna captures striking luminescence. Listen to the artist, who has been named one of the greatest landscape photographers of his generation, give a free lecture about his technique and his travels at the Halsey Institute at 7 p.m. on November 2. The following day he’ll be at the Rebekah Jacob Gallery, where the exhibit is featured, for a book signing from 5:30-8:30 p.m. Read more…

Red Party Photo Gallery: CHARLESTONMAG.COM

RED PARY 2011: The American College of the Building Arts’ much-anticipated Red Party returned to the Old Jail with a vintage circus-theme on Thursday, October 27. View more…

Critique: Venezia (Photographs by Michael Kenna)

September 23, 2011

By Dr. Karen D. Heid

Venice is most certainly not sinking. At least that is how one may feel when he or she sees Michael Kenna’s photographs of Venezia. Venice, the aesthete’s ideal of Italy, has been photographed by Kenna in such a way that he captures this ancient and fragile city as if it were rising from the depths of the marshy peninsula on which it was first built, revealing secrets that can only be seen through a lens. Read more…

Michael Kenna Lecture

Landscape photographer Michael Kenna will speak. Lecture produced in partnership with Rebekah Jacob Gallery and in conjunction with Quiet Places: Italy, France, China, and Japan at RJG, November 1 – Dec 2011. Read more…

The Gibbes Museum Publication Highlights RJG

Society 18658 events include art walk at Rebekah Jacob Gallery at 169 King Street. Friday, October 7, 2011. Director Angela Mack will deliver a short talk about collecting art. Meet Angela and other Gibbes members.

PHOTOGRAPH Magazine Plugs Michael Kenna

Rebekah Jacob Gallery will exhibit a collection of black and white photographs by renowned artist Michael Kenna. Widely considered to be one of the foremost landscape photographers of his generation, Michael Kenna has been looking at our world in ways quite out of the ordinary for over thirty-five years. His mysterious photographs, often made at dawn or in the dark hours of night, concentrate primarily on the interaction between the natural landscape and human-made structures. Kenna is both a diurnal and nocturnal photographer, fascinated by times of day when light is at its most pliant. With night-time exposures of up to ten hours, his photographs often record details that the human eye is not able to perceive. Kenna is particularly famous for the intimate scale of his photography. On view November and December 2011 at 169 King Street, downtown Charleston. Read more…

Zimbio Covers Kenna’s Exhibit at RJG

Rebekah Jacob Gallery will exhibit a collection of black and white photographs by renowned artist Michael Kenna. Widely considered to be one of the foremost landscape photographers of his generation, Michael Kenna has been looking at our world in ways quite out of the ordinary for over thirty-five years. His mysterious photographs, often made at dawn or in the dark hours of night, concentrate primarily on the interaction between the natural landscape and human-made structures. Kenna is both a diurnal and nocturnal photographer, fascinated by times of day when light is at its most pliant. With night-time exposures of up to ten hours, his photographs often record details that the human eye is not able to perceive. Kenna is particularly famous for the intimate scale of his photography. He works in a traditional, non-digital photographic medium and his intimate, exquisitely hand crafted black and white prints reflect a sense of refinement, respect for history, and thorough originality.

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