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On view at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami, Bruce Weber: Haiti/ Little Haiti runs February 13, 2011. Vernissage TV visited the museum. The above video is their tour.

There are a good number of exciting things that go on at L’ÉLOI Montreal agency. One, and most simply, is Martin Laporte’s “A Pic a Day.” The photos are from Martin’s personal collection which he has gathered over the years of being in the business, traveling from Montreal to Paris. While there are themes… I’ve chosen to highlight some photos related to “shoes” (and, yes, women’s legs), the photographs often appear in random order. The blog serves as an excellent entree into Laporte’s vision as a photographer, as well as his personal interests.

Read more here.

See more after the jump.

Something simple to end the day, the latest work from Adrien Broom. I really like her work and her recent exhibition was stellar. This is entitled “Portraits from Oz.”

From our friend, Patrick Martinez -

The Chinese American Museum (CAM) and El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument is proud to present Dreams Deferred: Artists Respond to Immigration Reform opening on December 10, 2010. This exhibit will showcase local artists exploring the tensions, repercussions, hopes, and dreams of immigrant communities in the face of new immigration legislation, through a broad spectrum of art including street art, graffiti art, sculptures, painting and multimedia installations.

U.S. immigration laws have long reflected a lasting legacy of racial exclusion starting with the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, the first legislation to restrict immigration based on race and ethnicity. This legacy of immigration legislation targeting immigrant communities has since reemerged in the recent decades with California’s Proposition 187, and Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070, as attempts at inhibiting the livelihoods of undocumented immigrants.

Dreams Deferred continues the current national dialogue about immigration, kicked-off by the recent opening of CAM’s Remembering Angel Island, an exhibition commemorating the 100th year anniversary of the opening of the West Coast’s first immigration station. Both exhibitions will serve to shed light on the parallels of past and current immigration policies and reform, and how Los Angeles’ diverse immigrant communities collectively share not only their immigrant histories, but also many of the challenges facing new immigrant communities today.

The exhibition is curated by Tim Jieh and Steven Wong and runs from December 20, 2010 to May 22, 2011.

The Chinese American Museum
425 N. Los Angeles Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Full artist list and preview after the jump.

Last summer, photographer Emiliano Granado spent five days on a cruise ship – Royal Caribbean’s Explorer of the Seas – for a piece published by Budget Traveler. Grando recently posted the outtakes, which I like very much. He’s developing well as a documentary photographer and his excitement for his subjects is evident.

More photos from aboard ship follow.

Glen E. Friedman “Fuck You All” continues through December 31, 2010, at 941 Geary, San Francisco. More here.

The Green has already received warranted attention on my brother blog, Selectism. Nowness has also joined the throngs of supporters, and for my purposes perfectly so, focusing on Stefan Ruiz’s Photographs of Manchester City Stars. These photos are shown here, a reminder of some of the quiet moments of the beautiful game. The Green Soccer Journal is available for purchase now.

More photos from Ruiz after the jump.

Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand: Masterworks from The Metropolitan Museum of Art is published in conjunction with the current exhibition, of same name, at the Metropolitan Museum. The photographic jewels shown and discussed are among the true gems of the institutions overall collection. Malcolm Daniel is Curator in Charge of the Department of Photographs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, takes readers through the careers and innovations of the groundbreaking master photographers.

Available from YUP.

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami will present Bruce Weber: Haiti/ Little Haiti from November 19, 2010 through February 13, 2011.

This extraordinary exhibition of photographs of Miami’s Haitian community by celebrated photographer Bruce Weber is part of MOCA’s Knight Exhibition Series and includes approximately 75 photographs taken by Weber from 2003 to 2010. Bruce Weber: Haiti / Little Haiti is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami and is curated by MOCA Executive Director and Chief Curator Bonnie Clearwater.

In 2003, The Miami Herald published a magazine supplement of Bruce Weber’s photographs of Miami’s Haitian community. The photographs were Weber’s response to an unjust U.S. immigration system in which Haitian men, women and children were detained indefinitely unlike refugees from other countries who were typically released to family or friends while awaiting asylum hearings.

Weber chose primarily to work in black-and-white for the project, but switched to color film when photographing Haitian Flag Day celebrations. Over the years he has built up a large archive of photographs of Haitian celebrations, church congregations, Little Haiti stores and boulevards, as well as portraits of individuals, groups, and families. Weber’s presence is welcomed in Miami’s Haitian community. Miami’s rising Haitian leaders, politicians, artists and entertainers have also posed for Weber. He generally photographed these professionals in their element.

A catalogue featuring an essay by Bonnie Clearwater, poems by Edwidge Danticat, and writings by Bruce Weber and Alberto Ibarguen, will accompany the exhibition.