Robert Koch Gallery: What's New


	*Still: Oceanscapes by Debra Bloomfield* with an introduction by Terry Tempest Williams
			DEBRA BLOOMFIELD A new publication of Debra Bloomfield's body of work, entitled Still: Oceanscapes by Debra Bloomfield, with an introduction by Terry Tempest Williams, was recently released by Chronicle Books. For more information, please contact the gallery.

			KEN BOTTO We mourn the passing of photographer Ken Botto, a long-time figure in the California art scene, and an internationally exhibited and collected artist. His photographs presented a humorous, fictionalized world, revealing a sly commentary within a tableau built of children's toys and discarded objects. Of his own work, he wrote, "A hopeless collector, and like an urban anthropologist, I have spent much of my life rooting and sifting through the debris of our culture. Objects found through this process serve as catalysts and vehicles of possibility when reconstructing the environments that I set up to photograph."
	Carl De Keyzer will exhibit eighty photographs at the Stedelijk Museum in Gent, Belgium (S.M.A.K.) from June 13 - Sept 6, 2009.

			JEFF BROUWS Jeff Brouws will be speaking at a symposium at the University of Nottingham in England, on Channeling Evans and Ruscha: Embracing the Historical Contemporary, Quotidian, and Extraordinary Ordinary in Everyday American Culture (on September 12, 2008). A new book written by Brouws, *The Call of Trains: Railroad Photographs by Jim Shaughnessy, will be released by W.W. Norton* in November, 2008. Brouws's photographs will be featured in the following exhibitions: Road Trip - San Jose Museum of Art (September - January 2009, Group Show) It Don't Exist: Photographs from Inner America - Kenyon College, Gambier, OH (April - May 2009, Solo Show)

			DEBBIE FLEMING CAFFERY Debbie Fleming Caffery's photographs will be featured in the following exhibitions: Moving Walls 14 - Open Society Institute, New York (through October 2008, Group Show) Masterworks of American Photography - Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX (through November 2008, Group Show) underreported - a group projection organized by seenunseen in New York (on October 15, 2008

	Jo Whaley's, The Theater of Insects, with essays by Linda Weiner and Deborah Klotchko

			LAUREN GREENFIELD Lauren Greenfield was recently a guest speaker at the Photography Month 2008 festival in Cracow, Poland, which featured photographs from her series Kids + Money. Her film by the same name was the winner of the audience award for short films at AFI Fest and the official selection of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Greenfield's photographs are featured in This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in L.A. Photographs, currently on view at the Huntington Library (through September 2008, Group Show). The Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan has added a photograph by Lauren Greenfield to their permanent collection.

			SIMEN JOHAN An exhibition of photographs from Simen Johan's series The Evidence of Things Unseen will be on view at the New Museum of Art in Detroit from September 13 to October 11, 2008.

			CARL DE KEYZER A retrospective of Carl De Keyzer's work entitled *Trinity* has been published by Mets & Schilt. The volume includes De Keyzer's photographs from 1991 - 2007. On the occasion of the book's publication,De Keyzer will exhibit eighty photographs at the Stedelijk Museum in Gent, Belgium (S.M.A.K.) from June 13 - Sept 6, 2009.

			SHAI KREMER The SFMOMA has acquired Shai Kremer's photograph Urban Warfare Training Center, Panorama, Tze'elim, Israel, 2007. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, recently acquired this same photograph for their permanent collection. Signed, advance copies of Shai Kremer's monograph *Infected Landscape, published by Dewi Lewis, are now available and may be purchased here. Kremer's work will be featured in the following exhibitions: HeartQuake* - The Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel (through September 2008, Group Show) Israeli Panoramas - Herzelya Museum, Israel (through November 2008, Solo Show)


			WAYNE LEVIN The July/August issue of LensWork featured a portfolio of 25 images from Wayne Levin's Akule series.

			JOEL MEYEROWITZ Joel Meyerowitz has been photographing over 50 nature preserves and public spaces throughout New York City and the surrounding communities for a two-year project commissioned by the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. The complete archive of images will be available on the Department's website; exhibits of the project will also be shown at select museums. Meyerowitz's retrospective book will be published by Phaidon Press in the spring of 2009.

			BILL OWENS A self-titled retrospective of Owens's photographs has recently been released by Damiani. A re-issue of his seminal, out-of-print book *Working: I Do It For the Money* will be released late in 2008 by Fotofile.

			CHRISTIAN PATTERSON Christian Patterson's first monograph *Sound Affects* debuted at Art Cologne 2008. It was a recommended selection in the August issue of SPIN Magazine.

			NICHOLAS PRIOR Prior's images were included in Presumed Innocence by Anne Higgonet, Rachel Lafo, and Kate Dempsey, a catalog published to accompany an exhibition by the same name at the DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA.

			LARRY SCHWARM Thirty of Larry Schwarm's photographs from the Tornado series were recently shown in a solo exhibition at the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS. The exhibition marked the one-year anniversary of the tornado which devastated Greensburg, Kansas.

			AMY STEIN Amy Stein's forthcoming publication *Domesticated, which won Best Photography Book* honors at the New York Photo Awards, will be available late fall. Stein's photographs will be featured in the group exhibition Road Trip at the San Jose Museum of Art (September - January, 2009).

			BRIAN ULRICH Artslant's Chicago City Editor, Abraham Ritchie interviewed Brian Ulrich for the June, 2009 feature on Artslant's Rack Room. To read the full interview click here. Brian Ulrich is the recipient of a 2009 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Photography! Ulrich's photograph Las Vegas, NV, 2003 accompanied an article on Freddie Mac and Fannie May in the July 27, 2008 Sunday Times Magazine. Orion Magazine illustrated the recent article Gospel of Consumption with photographs from Ulrich's Retail series.

			JO WHALEY The Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA) in San Diego, CA is showing an exhibition of Whaley's Theater of Insects from May 16 - September 27, 2009 A solo exhibition of Jo Whaley's photographs will be on view at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC (through March, 2009). A new monograph of Jo Whaley's phtographs, *The Theater of Insects, with essays by Linda Weiner and Deborah Klotchko, published by Chronicle Books*, is also forthcoming. Please contact the gallery regarding an upcoming book-signing event.

			MICHAEL WOLF The Transparent City, a solo exhibition featuring Wolf's latest series, will be shown at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago in November 2008. Concurrently, a monograph by the same name and co-published by MoCP and Aperture will be released. Wolf's installation The Real Toy Story can be seen at the Shanghai Biennale 2008 in September. Photographs by Wolf are featured in the exhibition Eastern Standard, Western Artists in China at the MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA (through March 2009).