The Photographs Not Taken is a collection of essays by photographers on the photographs that they did not take.  The concept is pretty incredible. The photographers included in the project are:

Alec Soth, Amy Elkins, Amy Stein, Andrew Moore, Benjamin Donaldson, Bill Owens, Brian Ulrich, Chris Jordan, Christian Patterson, Dave Jordano, Debbie Fleming Caffery, Eirik Johnson, Elinor Carucci, Erika Larsen, Grant Willing, Hank Willis Thomas, Hannah Whitaker, John Movius, Joshua Lutz, Juliana Beasley, KayLynn Deveney, Laura McPhee, Lisa Kereszi, Mark Steinmetz, Matt Salacuse, Michael Harlan Turkell, Misty Keasler, Nina Berman, Paul D’Amato, Peter Riesett, Rachael Dunville, Rian Dundon, Richard Renaldi, Roger Ballen, Shane Lavalette, Simon Roberts, Tim Davis, Timothy Archibald, Todd Deutsch, Todd Hido, and William Greiner

You should check out the trailer that Amy Stein recently posted on her blog. The documentary is a moving depiction of women artists and their decline in the art world post graduate school (here).

On another note, last Friday I attended the Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution exhibit at the Vancouver Art gallery. The exhibit focuses on feminist art created between 1965 and 1980. At times I felt a bit like I was attending a 70s consciousness raising group, but all in all I was pretty excited to see the original scroll that  Carolee Schneemann pulled out of her vagina, sit on the floor and watch Yoko Ono’s “Cut Piece” and be in the same room as the artist celebrity Orlan. The exhibit is on at the VAG till January 11, 2009.

And here are some amazing audio interviews with WACK artists on the specific pieces they have hung in the show (go here and click on the subsection “highlights”).

An interview with Jeff Mermelstein broadcast on Media Matters in 2003. It is quite an impressive interview, that shows how he works on the streets of NY.