Umbrage Editions is a multimedia company that publishes high quality visual books on art, photography, human rights, nature, social and political issues, and popular culture.
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Congrats Idanna and Terrance!
Here's what the New York Daily News had to say about "Black Africa White Marble":
"Brilliant! A riveting, powerful, beautifully made film. As history, as betrayal, as a family story with operatic twists and turns. This film has it all-and it is magical!" —Joanna Molloy, New York Daily News
Drop by BAMcinématek this Sat., May 25th for the premiere of "Black Africa White Marble", an amazing documentary, the companion film to the book "Brazza in Congo", by Idanna Pucci (Umbrage Editions). The film examines how Pucci made a stand against Republic of Congo President Sassou Nguesso, as he sought to move the remains of her ancestor, Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza (an explorer & spiritual leader for the Congo) to boost his own image. For more film info: http://www.bam.org/film/2013/black-africa-white-marble
Book: http://www.umbragegallery.com/blog/titles/currently-available/brazza-in-congo
Umbrage invites you to attend a book-signing event Thursday, April 4th, 2013, from 6 – 8pm with photography historian Carole Naggar, author of our most recent title, "CHIM: Children of War". Please join us at our new location (Suite 220) for a glass of wine and a chance to purchase a copy of the book signed by the author.
Location: 111 Front Street, Suite 220, DUMBO, Bklyn, NY 11201
About CHIM: http://bit.ly/WmxB3t
Stop by TONIGHT for the opening of photographer Pari Dukovic's first exhibition, "Burlesque". His study of burlesque, presents an innovative look at a naughty art form enjoying a new heyday. Fascinated by the “rebellious performances” within the New York burlesque scene, Dukovic captured the “…artists who take a piece of themselves and build a character in their fantasy world.”
For Details click below.
Giacobetti Paul Gallery is in Dumbo at 111 Front Street on the second floor in Gallery #220. The best way to get there is the F train to the York Street stop, down the hill a block and left a couple of blocks. The building is at the corner of Front and Washington.
Magnum Photos
This Thursday, join Magnum's Peter Van Agtmael and ICP's Cynthia Young for a walk-through of the David "Chim" Seymour exhibit at ICP - International Center of Photography
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Photo © David Seymour/Magnum Photos
ITALY. Matera. 1948. Funeral procession for a child.
This FRIDAY join biographer & author Carole Naggar at the School at ICP for her lecture on legendary photographer Chim.
Naggar, is the author of our latest title "CHIM:Children of War". In addition, she's a poet & photography historian based in NYC.
Click below for lecture details.
Join biographer Carole Naggar at the School at ICP for her lecture on Chim. Naggar, author of the "Lives of Chim" essay in the We Went Back:...
Le Journal de la Photographie (English) interviewed Nan and wrote a great article profiling Umbrage Editions.
"Richardson has always had the touch, bringing together conversations around the most vulnerable. She collaborates with artists who communicate in a variety of ways, whether in art, photography, or children’s books..."
Art is the moment we take note, the moment we stop to consider the surface and all that lies beneath. Art empowers us to think for ourselves, to embrace the possibility of layers of meaning and experience cast upon and emanating from the image itself. When set singly, as a print hung upon a wall, th...
Our new tittle "CHIM: CHILDREN OF WAR" (March 2013 release) is feature in TIME LightBox. See link below with 17 powerful images from the book - give us your thoughts!
ICP retrospective exhibition of Chim opens tomorrow!
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd street, NY, NY
http://lightbox.time.com/2013/01/16/a-second-look-chims-children-of-war/#1
In 1948, Magnum photographer David Seymour was given a mission by the newly founded UNICEF: report on the fate of the 13 million children across Europe who have been left homeless and/or in dire need by the Second World War. 'Children of War', a new book by Umbrage Edition, highlights his incredible...
New year, new gallery!!! We've moved our office down the hall, same address, suite 220!
Come and check it out!
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VIOLENTOLOGY: Selected as one of the BEST BOOKS OF 2012!!!
*Available in our Gallery in Brooklyn (111 Front Street) and on our website www.umbragebooks.com.
http://www.photoeye.com/magazine_admin/index.cfm/bestbooks.2012.book/catalog_number/ZE644/
#TheBestChristmasGift
Interview with Stephen Ferry and VIOLENTOLOGY in local Radio Station-Indiana.
#CHECKITOUT!
http://indianapublicmedia.org/profiles/photojournalist-stephen-ferry/
Yaël Ksander interviews photojournalist Stephen Ferry, whose work concentrates on human rights, social and political conflict, and environmental conservation.
COME! COME! COME! A GOOD BOOK IS ALWAYS A GREAT GIFT FOR THE HOLIDAYS!!
*Offer valid at 111 Front Street, Brooklyn Gallery ONLY.
This FRIDAY Nov 9th, join us in our Gallery at Dumbo for a #SUCKITSANDY fundraiser. We will be open from 11am to 9pm in order to raise money for Dumbo Artists and Arts organizations badly hurt by the hurricane.
PLEASE JOIN US FRIDAY AND VIEW GREAT ART, ENJOY A GLASS of WINE, CONTRIBUTE with A MODEST DONATION, AND TAKE ADVANTAGE of a SPECIAL "#SUCKITSANDY" DISCOUNT ON QUALITY ART/PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS.!
http://dumbo.is/culture/posts/galleries-host-suckitsandy-art-crawl-friday
Galleries Host #SUCKITSANDY Art Crawl FridaySandy ruined First Thursday, but you can still come and see great art, drink beer and spend time with the DUMBO arts community to raise much needed funds toGalapagos,Smack MellonandRabbit Hole Studiosget back on their feet. Donations and proceeds from refr...
Le Journal de la Photographie (English) features Stephen Ferry's Violentology and calls it "a visual and tactile experience that requires patience and attention." http://lejournaldelaphotographie.com/entries/8948/stephen-ferry-the-colombian-conflict
The title of the book itself announces Stephen Ferry’s completeness:
Listen to Green Card Stories collaborators Laura Danielson and Stephen Yale-Loehr discuss immigration on NPR's local Detroit radio station WDET! Congrats!
Immigration is not only playing a pivotal role in this presidential election, but also in the re-shaping of this very city. A new book titled Green Card Stories looks at the true tales of 50 recent immigrants to the United States. Two immigration lawyers who collaborated on the book will lead a pane...
"A Girl and Her Room" exhibited at Leica Gallery in beautiful Warsaw, Poland! Congrats, Rania!
A Girl and Her Room is exhibited at the Leica Gallery in Warsaw!
http://www.zpaf.waw.pl/component/content/article/83-aktualnoci/735-rania-matar-a-girl-and-her-room-wystawa-w-leica-gallery-warszawa.html
Violentology receiving more great coverage today... Photo District News is featuring 7 images from Stephen Ferry's book on its PDN Photo of the Day page. http://bit.ly/UI2t2l
© Stephen Ferry. For a decade Stephen Ferry has documented the armed internal conflict in Colombia, a complex, violent, and frequently misunderstood
Stephen Ferry's "Violentology" is featured today on Time Magazine Photo's LightBox blog! Includes an audio narrative by Ferry himself about the aims and motivations that catalyzed the project.
"I wanted to focus particularly on the role of civilians who stand up for their rights and who oppose these different violent groups through peaceful means."
http://ti.me/QbNcR1
LightBox presents a guided video tour of Stephen Ferry's new book, 'Violentology: A Manual of the Colombian Conflict,' narrated by the photographer.
We're really enjoying reading the article on the Vanderbilt University website about Tim Hetherington's Long Story Bit By Bit exhibition! If you're in the area, don't forget to see it.
"Long Story Bit by Bit brings to life an extraordinary range of characters—from warlords to presidents, environmental activists to traditional hunters, political hustlers to democratic visionaries—all captured by the award-winning photographer and filmmaker Tim Hetherington over the course of eight years of living and working in West Africa." ~Vanderbilt University
Liberia retold through late documentarian’s work, film. ‘Long Story Bit by Bit’ opens Oct. 12 at Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery Long Story Bit by Bit: Liberia Retold, Photography by Tim Hetherington opens Friday, Oct. 12, at the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery and will be on view through Dec. 6. An openi...
Congratulations!
Entry Title:" Green Card Stories"Name:Ariana Lindquist, United StatesCategory:Professional, Deeper PerspectiveStory:Green Card Stories is a collection of powerful life stories and photographs of 50 recent U.S. citizens and permanent residents that collectively convey a portrait of...
Congratulations to Bethany Dunbar: "Kingdom's Bounty" was featured in "The Midwest Book Review" September 2012 edition of "Library Bookwatch!" Click the link below to read the wonderful review:
Congratulations to Stephen Ferry: "Violentology" was featured in "The Midwest Book Review" September 2012 edition of "Reviewer's Bookwatch!" Click the link below to read the spectacular review:
We're gearing up for the Dumbo Arts Festival! Don't forget to come to the Umbrage Gallery to check out Stephen Ferry's Violentology exhibition. See you there!
SUITE: 208, Umbrage GalleryPROJECT: Umbrage Gallery is pleased to present Violentology, an exhibition of the photographs of Stephen Ferry. The product of ten years of photographic documentation and investigation, Violentology delves into Colombia's continuing internal conflict, exploring the politic...
Mark Feeney posts a nice write-up to The Boston Globe, which includes a great description of Rania Matar's work, including "A Girl and Her Room." Read the article at www.boston.com:
There is a long, and often disquieting, tradition of artistic renderings of girls as they approach (or have just entered) womanhood. The most famous examples we know by character names: Alice,...
Listen to Stephen Ferry talk about "Violentology" and the Colombian conflict on the WOLA podcast "Latin America Today" with Adam Isacson:
Adam talks with Stephen Ferry, photojournalist and author of the highly recommended new bookViolentology: A Manual of the Colombian Conflict.
Kingdom's Bounty is in Edible Green Mountains!
"Visitors and Vermonters alike will want to keep Kingdom’s Bounty within easy reach to navigate the area’s farmers markets, to make the most of seasonal fairs and to explore the book’s self-guided tours." -Dorian Yates
This vivid publication explores the farmers, food artisans, and culinary wonders within our communities that make eating local food an everyday pleasure.
Don't miss Stephen Ferry speaking at NYU tonight. He'll discuss the Colombian conflict, civilian displacement, and "Violentology," which launches this week. Event starts at 6:30 pm and is free and open to the public. http://bit.ly/PlvhYu
For nearly five decades, Colombia has been embroiled in internal armed conflict among guerrilla groups, paramilitary militias, and the country’s own armed forces. Civilians in Colombia face a range of abuses from all sides, including killings, disappearances and rape—and more than four million have ...
Check out the lovely article Rick de Yampert wrote on Rania Matar's "A Girl and Her Room"!
When photographer Rania Matar began one of her recent projects, she soon realized each of her subjects was "a person on the edge between two worlds."
Excited to announce that Rania Matar has been selected as a finalist in The New York Photo Awards 2012 for "A Girl and Her Room"! Winners will be announced during the opening exhibition hosted over at The powerHouse Arena on Friday Sept. 28th during the DUMBO Arts Festival. Hope to see you there! http://bit.ly/Qqb1Wr
Congratulations to the following New York Photo Awards 2012 finalists! Winners in each category will be announced on Friday, September 28th at the exhibition opening reception at The powerHouse Arena during the DUMBO Arts Festival. Join us for what will be a spectacular showcase of the fine photogra...
Don't miss the recent NYTimes Lens Blog post featuring Marc McAndrews' "Nevada Rose," which it calls a "profoundly American" work that doesn't "adhere to culturally appointed preconceptions" of prostitution http://nyti.ms/OtwZGt
The Wall Street Journal covers Stephen Ferry's photography exhibit "Violentology":
"The pictures in this exhibition, and in the book from which they are drawn, are printed not on conventional photographic pap
er but on newsprint, and heavily inked as if from a tabloid."
"The pictures record killings whose perpetrators can only be alleged because the motives are unclear and the actual killers will never be known. Violence became so ubiquitous, so habitual, that historians and sociologists in Colombia coined the term "violentology" for its study."
~ William Meyers, WSJ|New York Culture, Aug. 24, 2012
Recent New York photography exhibitions of Stephen Ferry, Homai Vyarawalla and at Alice Austen House.
Hey Vermonters! We'll be at the Orleans County Fair starting this Wednesday, August 15. Stop by for your chance to win a copy of Kingdom's Bounty!
The Orleans County Fair in Barton, VT offers Dreamland Amusements, carnival, agriculture, 4-H Shows, milking parlor, cheese processing unit, harness racing, animal exhibits, horse shows, horse and pony pulling, tractor pulls, and demo derby.
111 Front St
New York, NY
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F to York St. Station - about 4 minutes' walk. Walk north on Jay St. towards Front St. Turn left onto Front St.; building will be on the right. A, C to High St. Station - about 5 minutes' walk. Walk north on Cadman Plaza East St. towards Red Cross Pl. Turn right onto Front St.; building will be on the left.
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