Report on Dennis Couvillion's DVD

Came in the mail two days ago and I've seen it a few times; gonna go

see my friend with the HDTV and watch it proper.

 

If you get a charge out of great black and white documentary

photography you will love it. There are about 100 images in

succession, with a haunting score that seems to have been calibrated

to the mood of each image. Dennis has entitled it :"Stillness...the

aftermath of Katrina".

 

But if I were given the opportunity to make up a title, (for an

astoundingly modest fee Dennis-really), it might have been "Silent

Screams" because the photos show the violent upheavals of so many

devastated lives. On my first viewing I caught myself drawing in

shocked breaths regularly at what came up. A little bit of humour:

there's an "installation" featuring Kermit that I really liked. The

fact that these work as beautiful images is of course, a terrible irony.

 

You can phone up the International Center of Photography in N.Y.C. at

212-857-0000 to order it. They are $14.95 ea. + shipping. If you are

in the teaching profession or belong to a civic or church group, it'd

be a good show & tell. 14 minutes.

Thanks, Jack. The check is in the mail. ;>)

 

FWIW, if the ICP is temporarily out of stock you can order a copy from Rich Pinto at The Photo Village.

 

Dennis

Thanks for the heads up John, I'll be in NYC next week, do you have an address for the gallery.

 

David K.

Says on their website "Avenue of the Americas (isn't that 6th Ave?)at 43rd St". News to me. I went there a couple of years ago.Used to be close to the Guggenheim. Where [the hell] do you park around there?

Note also the current New York exhibit at AXA Gallery (51st St and Seventh Ave) which includes Louisiana photos by Dennis and also by a few other half-decent snapshooters, but nobody special: Frank, Friedlander, Evans, Arbus ...<p>

 

I'm not kidding. More info on that exhibit is <a href=http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00FegB&tag=>on this thread</a>.

David:

 

The ICP is at 6th Ave. and 43rd St. Do you know where Bryant Park is? It's across the street about a block away.

 

If you have time check out the exhibit at the AXA Gallery, 787 7th Ave. at 51st St. where the DVD is being shown.

 

Parking in Manhattan is fairly expensive but there is a place across from Madison Square Garden, around 8th Ave. and 32nd St., where I usually park. All of the above are within walking distance, as well as B&H Photo.

 

Have a good time.

 

Dennis

<i>Where [the hell] do you park around there?</i><p>

 

Approaching it conservatively, in New Jersey ...

John, the secret is you don't drive :)

 

Thanks, I'm sure I'll find it, I'm very interested in seeing the John Szarkowski exhibition at the MOMA. Iteresting that he started shooting seriously at age 65 (15 years ago), it will be interesting to see his work.

Thanks for the response Dennis.

 

David K.

Thanks for the thread Michael,.......great lots to see.