Please Note: If you go see any of these, do not miss Invasion 68 Prague I saw this show at Aperture earlier this year – it is not to be missed.
Invasion 68 Prague – photographs by Josef Koudelka. Koudelka’s negatives were smuggled out of Prague into the hands of the Magnum photography agency, and published anonymously in The Sunday Times Magazine. In 1969, the “anonymous Czech photographer” was awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal for photographs requiring exceptional courage. The Katzen Arts Center at American University, 4400 Massachusettes Ave. NW, Washington DC 20016. November 11-December 28, 2008. Telephone 202.885.1300/www.american.edu/academic.depts/cas/katzen
Kendall Messick: The Projectionist – Kendall Messick’s haunting photographs of the Shalimar Theatre, a fully functional, faux-vintage 9-seat movie theater that Gordon Brinkle, a film projectionist devoted his life to constructing in his Delaware basement until his death in 2007. Hemphill Fine Arts, 1515 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005. November 8-December 20, 2008. Opening Reception: Saturday, November 8, 6:30 – 8:30 PM. Telephone 202.234.5601/www.hemphillfinearts.com
Big Blue Marble and Images from NASA – photos by Bill Ingalls, NASA lead photographer and DC area Camera Club members’ work at Washington School of Photography, 4850 Rugby Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20814. November 14-December 10. Opening reception Friday, November 14, 6-9pm. Telephone 301.654.1998/ www.wsp-photo.com
Road to Freedom – Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, 1956-1968 presented in coordination with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, S. Dillon Ripley Center’s International Gallery, 1100 Jefferson Drive, SW, Washington, DC 20560. November 8-March 9, 2009. Telephone 202.633.1000/www.si.edu/ripley
Historical Photographs from the Washington Post – highlights from decades of photographs from one of the nation’s premier news sources. Featuring the photographs of Joyce Tenneson, Jill Enfield, Sue Bloom, Bruce Barnbaum and Clay Blackmore Post. November 15-23. Metropolitan Center for the Visual Arts, 155 Gibbs St., Rockville MD, 20850. Telephone 301.315.8200/www.VisArtsCenter.org
Odysseys and Photographs – Masters from the National Geographic Archives, including Tom Abercrombie, Maynard Owen Williams, Luis Marden, Volkmar Wentzel at the National Geographic Museum, 1145 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Through January 4, 2009. Telephone 202.857.7588/www.nationalgeographic.com