Music was the Room She Lived In
A Gallery for Fine Photography
241 Chartres Street, New Orleans, LA 70130
on view September 30, 2021 – January 7, 2022
Josephine Sacabo’s latest exhibit, Music Was the Room She Lived In, is a collection of twenty-one hand-pulled photogravures spanning four bodies of work: Music was the Room She Lived In, Photisms, Le Diable Au Corps (Devil in the Flesh), and Those Who Dance.
Virtual Reception and Artist Talk with Josephine Sacabo
Friday, October 8, 6pm EST
Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College
Live via Zoom
Join us for this virtual artist talk to learn about Josephine’s decades-long career, the inspiration and mystery behind her works of art, and her ability to give a voice to women of the past whose legacies still inspire us today. Thank you to the Polk Museum and Dr. Alex Rich, Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Polk Museum, for hosting this event!
LACP 2021 Gala & Auction – Virtual Artist Talk
Tuesday, September 21, 5pm PST
Los Angeles Center for Photography
For more information: lacphoto.org
REGISTER HERE
Josephine will appear in an artist lecture alongside fellow photographers Wendi Schneider and Hiroshi Watanabe for the Los Angeles Center of Photography, as part of their 2021 Gala & Auction. At this free virtual event, she will be discussing her image “Bigotry,” available for auction now until October 4th. Thank you to the LACP organizers!
We are excited to share that Josephine is the Featured Photographer for the Summer 2021 issue of SHOTS Magazine. The issue includes an interview where Josephine discusses her career, inspirations, and process. Thank you to SHOTS Magazine, Doug Beasley, and interviewer Elizabeth Flinsch!
Read the interview: Elizabeth Flinsch, SHOTS Magazine No. 152, Summer 2021
Through the four recent series that form the core of the exhibition (Those Who Dance, Disquiet, Cuentos, and Le Diable au Corps), Sacabo conjures a world of mystery and mysticism in her work, excavating stories about lives lived in secret struggle or without inhibition, reviving traditional processes of photography like photogravure and tintypes, and giving much-needed voice to women of the past whose legacies still inspire and haunt the artist to this day. – H. Alexander Rich, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Polk Museum of Art
Women in 2021
Curated by Constance Rosenthal
South x Southeast Photogallery
We are delighted to share this interview with Josephine from the October 17 edition of BookTalk, hosted by the Southeast Center for Photography. Josephine discusses her latest publication from Luna Press, Structures of Reverie, as well as her new exhibition, THOSE WHO DANCE. A huge thank you to Michael Pannier at the SE Center for Photography for hosting, and to Fran Forman for sharing her work as well. Watch the full interview below.
Virtual Artist Reception
Thursday, October 8, 7pm CST
Please email info@agallery.com to RSVP and to receive a zoom link.
A Gallery for Fine Photography
241 Chartres Street, New Orleans, LA 70130
www.agallery.com
on view October 3, 2020 – January 2, 2021
For more information about THOSE WHO DANCE
Josephine recently discussed her newest series, THOSE WHO DANCE, as well as her life, her love of poetry, and her path to discovering photography, with Where Y’At Magazine. Many thanks to the author Abbey Hebert for this wonderful feature!
“Sacabo finds the consolidation of her artistic ideas in literature. She explained that once an idea presents itself to her, she usually reads a line or a phrase from a book that pinpoints exactly what she was trying to get across. Once she finds this, the project has officially started. One of Sacabo’s interests is how the mediums of art communicate with one another, and this is a perfect example of that connection between poetry—her first love—and photography, her true love.”
Read the article: Abbey Hebert, Where Y’At Magazine, September 23, 2020
We are THRILLED to announce that Josephine’s three 21st Editions projects – Duino Elegies, Cante Jondo, and Gilded Circles and Sure Trouble – have just been acquired by the National Gallery of Art! These books and portfolios will join the museum’s Special Collections Library, alongside several other great women artists and the entire 21st Editions Collection.
Structures of Reverie was recently reviewed by the US Review of Books, where it received their coveted RECOMMENDED rating.
“Upon opening the book, the feel and fragrance are intoxicating, creating an aura of mystery and freedom from confinement …. Sacabo’s work is imbued with a translucent quality … there is no hindrance in conjuring limitless possibility.”
Read the article: Mihir Shah, The US Review of Books, June 30, 2020
We are proud to announce that Structures of Reverie, Josephine’s latest book published by Luna Press, has received the Eric Hoffer Honorable Mention Award.
“The nexus of form and emotion merges in Sacabo’s artistic photographic plates. Page after page, black and white composite exposures achieve the mystique of charcoal drawings. A shadow falls over them, holding both our attention and the ghosts within the images in place, all while bending and evading the linearity this collection explores.”
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To learn more about the Eric Hoffer Award and see the lists of Winners and Finalists, click here.
We are honored that Josephine Sacabo has been chosen as the featured cover artist for Issue 27 of The Hand Magazine. The issue features a wide-ranging interview presented in a beautiful multi-page spread.
It’s always amazing for me to hear what other people see in what I do – different people’s reaction to my work. Sometimes I can hardly recognize what’s being described to me as my photographs. But the essential communication is there and that is really important to me – a connection has been made. I love that.
Read the Issue: The Hand Issue #27, January 2020
Josephine Sacabo’s newest book, Structures of Reverie, has been named a Finalist for the 9th Annual Rendez-Vous Image Photobook Award. The book award finalists will be displayed at the RDVI juried exhibition from January 24-26 in Strasbourg, France.
To learn more about the award and see a list of the nominees, click here.
“This week on The Reading Life: Susan talks with Josephine Sacabo about her beautiful new photography book, “Structures of Reverie”
Listen to the interview: Susan Larson, The Reading Life (WWNO), December 16, 2019.
Please join us for a launch party and book signing celebrating Luna Press new releases and Josephine’s latest book, Structures of Reverie. Refreshments will be provided. We hope to see you there!
Thursday, December 19, 5-8 pm
Nadine Blake
1036 Royal St., New Orleans, LA 70116
(504) 529-4913
Please join us for a book signing celebrating Structures of Reverie by Josephine Sacabo. The event will be held in conjunction with PhotoNOLA, New Orleans’ annual festival of photography. We hope to see you there!
Saturday, December 14, 2019, 5 – 8 pm
A Gallery for Fine Photography
241 Chartres St., New Orleans
504-568-1313
Luna Press, publisher of Josephine’s books, is offering FREE SHIPPING on all orders placed before December 31. This is a great opportunity to share Josephine’s titles – including Lux Perpetua, Beyond Thought, and her newest, Structures of Reverie – with friends and family around the country for the holidays!
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Here [Sacabo’s] imagery appears to bypass the concerns of place seen in her recent work based on French Quarter graffiti and the iconography of old Mexico, and take its cues directly from the near-seamless mix of dreams, art history and poetry that inform her vision.
Read the article: D. Eric Bookhardt, Gambit Weekly, November 11, 2019
A purveyor of this historical and photo-mechanical process, she made the transition from gelatin silver prints to photogravure during the takeover of digital, which resulted in the disappearance of her favorite papers. One cannot help but be pulled in by the subtle and elegant details brought out by the photogravure process, that of which Josephine is a master.
Read the article: Michael Wilkerson, Analog Forever Magazine, October 7, 2019