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Back Bay
Boston Center for Adult Education, 5 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. 617-267-4430. (Get directions).
Board the T at Kenmore for the Back Bay (Arlington or Copley stops) or hoof it through this photogenic sector of the city. If you're a beginner in photography, the Boston Center for Adult Education is a fine place to get your F-stops straight. Most of your mates will be novices, especially in the introductory 35mm camera and darkroom classes.
More advanced workshops include nature photography, creative photography lab, and all-day weekend classes in digital photography. One of the center's best instructors is Charles Hrbek, a pro who has taught at BCAE for almost 30 years.
Robert Klein Gallery, 38 Newbury St., 4th floor, Boston. 617-267-7997. (Get directions).
Around the block on Newbury Street, the Robert Klein Gallery beckons. Several local galleries show photography occasionally - including the Bromfield, Barbara Krakow, Howard Yezerski, Creiger Dane, Stebbins, and Bernard Toale - but only one shows photography all the time.
Established in 1980, Robert Klein has over 3,000 images in inventory, the work of 19th and 20th century photographers that are household names (Ansel Adams, Irving Penn, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bernice Abbott, Diane Arbus, to name a few), along with younger artists.
Through Nov. 13, the gallery features the work of Michael Kenna, a British photographer in his 40s who specializes in black and white images of settings and details of settings - landscapes, architectural complexes, formal gardens, canals, and parks.
The show centers on photographs Kenna shot in Russia this year, including Smolny, a Russian Orthodox monastery in St. Petersburg that emerges over the horizon like Xanadu.
Institute of Contemporary Art, 955 Boylston St., Boston. 617-266-5152. (Get directions).
Keep an eye on the Institute of Contemporary Art, which presents the environmental photography of New York based-artist Shimon Attie Nov. 17-Jan. 16. Outdoors, Attie uses pictures in unusual ways, such as a project in Berlin where he cast images of the pre-war Jewish community onto the disintegrated buildings of the city's old Jewish quarter. Similarly, in New York City, Attie projected handwritten memories, prayers, and songs onto tenement buildings on the Lower East side. Here in Boston, trading on the ICA building's past as a police station, he'll project text and images from the old division's case files onto the ICA's exterior.
Indoors, the ICA galleries present Attie's photographs and public projects from 1992-1998. As is the gallery's custom, informative "walk-through-talks" by local culture mavens will be offered.
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