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640 480

The 640 480 Video Collective is Jeremy Bailey, Patrick Borjal, Shanan Kurtz, Phil Lee, Jillian Locke, and Gareth Long. Since 2001 they have created and curated projects for galleries, art fairs, rock bands and online. The group recently won an award for exhibition design and were singled out by Artnet as one of the highlights of Photo New York 2005.  640 480 is based in Toronto, Canada but has members living and working in New York and the UK. Please visit www.640480.com for more information.

Beat / Chris Felver

Beat is a diaristic exhibition layered with the personalities that gave the Beat movement its backbone – Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Amiri Baraka, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Patti Smith, Timothy Leary, Hunter S. Thompson and beyond. Beat, the installation, encapsulates a golden moment in American arts and literature of the post-war period, featuring photographs, original artworks, objects and marginalia. The publication date for Beat is Spring, 2007 – Last Gasp Press, San Francisco. Christopher Felver is a photographer and filmmaker whose books are The Late Great Allen Ginsberg, The Poet Exposed, Ferlinghetti Portrait, Seven Days in Nicaragua Libre, Angels, Anarchists & Gods, and The Importance of Being. In 2000, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. held a retrospective of his films: Cecil Taylor: All the Notes, John Cage Talks About Cows, West Coast: Beat & Beyond, Taken by the Romans, Tony Cragg: In Celebration of Sculpture, Donald Judd’s Marfa Texas, California Clay in the Rockies, and The Coney Island of Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Gay Day / Hank O'Neal

With captions by Allen Ginsberg and a preface by William S. Burroughs, this is the only book to celebrate and chronicle the gay parade in NYC during its heyday.

An all-new collection-none of the photos, captions, or preface has ever been published before! Taken during the early days of the gay pride parade, these photos were captioned by Allen Ginsberg and laid aside until now. This book provides a unique and personal look into the roots of one the city's most vibrant traditions, as well as being an important addition to gay/lesbian literature and photo documentation. 

Hank O'Neal chronicled the New York City gay pride parade from the informal, spontaneous ritual held soon after the Stonewall Riots up to the more orchestrated, glamorous parades of the 80s, before AIDS turned the parade into a political necessity. All of O'Neal's photographs date from 1974 to 1984, when the parade was held on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village (it has since moved to 5th Avenue). The photos capture the personality, the community, and the spirit of the gay pride parade in its earliest stages.

Hank O'Neal is best known for his jazz and portrait photography, as well as a jazz recording producer. He met Berenice Abbott in 1972, and the two worked together for 19 years. He was close friends with both Burroughs and Ginsberg before they passed away. Examples of his work may be seen hankonealphoto.com. He lives in Greenwich Village, NYC.

New Art Project / Lara Pandurovic

Lara Pan’s New Art Project is a curatorial project that promotes contemporary art with the collaboration of galleries and institutions. Her artists, including Sergio Belinchon, Michel de Broin and Braco Dimitrijevic work in mixed media, video and conceptual photography. www.thenewartproject.com

Patterson Beckwith

Patterson Beckwith was born in Pittsburgh. He attended the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York's East Village where he recieved his B.F.A. He holds an M.F.A. in photography from U.C.L.A. His editorial photography appeared in Artforum, Vice, Jane, Details, Index, and Domino magazines. He has organized performance events at the Photo NY, Basel, and Armory fairs, the Hammer Museum and at E.S.L. projects in Los Angeles, and at American Fine Arts in New York. From 1992-2000, he was a member of a collaborative art group, Art Club 2000. The group, made up of 7 Cooper Union students, exhibited in Mexico, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, England, Scotland, and the U.S. He has been teaching photography at the Otis College of Art and Design since 2002.

Victor Cartagena

Salvadoran-born, Victor D. Cartagena is based in San Francisco and is a multi-disciplinary visual artist. He has exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions in the US and internationally, including Intersection for the Arts, Catharine Clark Gallery, University Art Museum at UC Berkeley, Oakland Museum, artLA, photo new york, and the Stephen Cohen Gallery. Cartagena received a Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation 2001 Visual Arts Purchase Award, the competitive Art Council (ARTADIA) award in the year 2000, and a Rockefeller grant with Octavio Solis and Larry Reed. Migration, Exile and Memories This installation continues his recent exploration of identity and migration through the media of photography, video and installation -- a journey that brings him face to face not only with himself and his own memories and realities of exile, but with those of his compatriots, young and old, alive, dead or disappeared, as well as the millions who traverse the world and cross borders every day.

The Center For Improved Living

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I NEED TO SPOON

I need to Spoon is an innovative service that is proven to make you feel good!!

Couples, strangers, friends, and acquintences will have the unique opportunity to "spoon" on Marc's bed at The Center For Improved Living's booth. Everyone who spoons will have their picture taken and posted (if given permission) on TCFIL's new sister site, www.ineedtospoon.com , which is entirely dedicated to the act of "spooning."

If visitors would like to spoon but have nobody to spoon with, Marc will gladly pose in a spooning pic with them. And for just a few bucks, you can have your spooning photo printed right then and there!!

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ProxyPal is another amazing new service offered by TCFIL. Say you have this really great photo of yourself, but you have an ex or friend in there that you can't stand. ProxyPal can help!

ProxyPal is a service for completely removing a person from one of your personal photographs, for whatever reason, and inserting artist and creator of the service, Marc Horowitz, as your new pal!

Please bring your photograph(s) to PhotoSF that you desire to have "retouched" using ProxyPal. Or you can send them ahead of time to marc@ineedtostopsoon.com

For a nominal fee, you will receive a brand new 4x6 glossy ProxyPal photo and a certificate of authenticity. To ensure the quality you expect, your ProxyPal photo and certificate will be mailed to within a 2 -3 weeks.

Eric Payson