As summer nears, the annual rite of thematic group shows gains momentum. This year a number of titles support the notion of photography as social landscape, including "There's No Place Like Home" (PDNB Gallery, Dallas); "Beyond the Backyard" (MOCP, Chicago) and "In Our Dreams" (Sasha Wolf, NYC). "When Color Was New" (Julie Saul, NYC) offers visitors a whirlwind retrospective of both talent (Eggleston, Christianberry and Sternfeld to name a few) and processes (dye transfer and Polaroid, for example). On a more somber note, the 40^th anniversary of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy has prompted James Danziger Projects, NYC and M+B Gallery, L.A. to mount exhibitions from Paul Fusco's deeply moving "RFK Funeral Train" series. With summer hours on the horizon, please check websites for information.

Above: Card Game (detail, from Eisbergfreistadt series), 2006, copyright Kahn & Selesnick. Courtesy of Yancey Richardson Gallery.

NEW YORK: CHELSEA and DOWNTOWN
25 Under 25, Selected by Sylvia Plachy
Gulf and Western Gallery, Tisch School of the Arts
May 29 - June 28, 20087
Opening reception: May 29, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Stanislav Ginzburg: Tales From Vienna Woods
Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art
June 5 - July 12, 2008
Opening reception: June 5, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Sage Sohier: Perfectible Words
Foley Gallery
June 5 - August 15, 2008
Opening reception: June 5, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Group show: Yale MFA Photography 2008
Danziger Projects
Through May 31, 2008
Paul Fusco: RFK Funeral Train - Rediscovered
June 6 - July 31, 2008

Bob Colacello: Out
Steven Kasher Gallery
June 11 - July 19, 2008
Opening reception and book signing: June 11, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

James Mollison: The Disciples & James and Other Apes
Hasted Hunt Gallery
June 12 - August 16, 2008
Opening reception: June 12, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Gabriel Jones: IRHANN
Priska C. Jushcka Fine Art
June 12th - July 26th, 2008
Opening reception: June 12, 2008 6:00 - 9:00 pm

Aziz + Cucher: Landscapes
Through June 7, 2008
Stephen Wilkes: The Construction of the Olympic Stadium and Other Chinese Public Works
ClampArt
June 12 - September 13, 2008
Opening Reception, June 12, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Yola Monahkhov: Once Out of Nature
Sasha Wolf Gallery
Through June 21, 2008
In Our Dreams: Group show featuring work by Harry Callahan, Lee Friedlander, Thomas Holton, Peter Kayafas, Pablo Lopez, Paul McDonough, Nancy Rexroth, Henry Wessel, and Garry Winogrand among others
June 26- Aug 9, 2008
Opening reception: June 26, 6:00-8:00 pm

Yuval Yairi: Palaces of Memory
Andrea Meislin Gallery
June 26 - August 15, 2008
Opening reception: June 26, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

British photography, featuring work by Bill Brandt, John Blakemore, Keith Collie, Fay Godwin, Nigel Henderson, David Hurne, Paul Hill, Chris Killip, Roger Mayne, Don McCullin, Raymond Moore, and Tony Ray-Jones
Alan Klotz Gallery
Through June 21, 2008
Southern Discomforts: Photographs by Terri Garland
July 1 - August 15, 2008
Opening reception: July 10m, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Sally Gall: Crawl
Through June 28, 2008
Julie Saul Gallery
When Color was New: Color photographs from the 1970s featuring work by William Eggleston, Joel Sternfeld, Helen Levitt, Joel Meyerowitz, William Christianberry, Stephen Shore, David Hockney , Walker Evans, Boyd Webb, Luigi Ghirri, Harry Callahan, Dan Graham, Jan Groover and others. The mediums include dye transfer, Polaroid and C prints.
July 7- September 6, 2008

Aaron Siskind: The Egan Gallery Years, 1947-1954
Robert Mann Gallery
Through June 28 2008
Of the Refrain, featuring work by Berenice Abbott, Ellen Auerbach, Ilsa Bing, Dora Maar, Barbara Morgan, ringl+pit, and Margaret Watkins that explores the formal repetitions and shared motifs of photographers working with genres such as portraiture and commercial still life during the first half of the 20th century
July 2 - August 22, 2008
Opening reception: July 2, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Kent Rogowski: Love = Love
Jen Bekman Gallery
Through June 14, 2008

Sophia Wallace: Pink & Bent
Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation
Through June 28, 2008

Roland Fischer
Von Lintel Gallery
Through June 28, 2008

Kahn & Selesnick: Eisbergfreistadt
Yancey Richardson Gallery
Through July 3, 2008

Richard Ross: The Architecture of Authority
Aperture Gallery
Through July 31, 2008

Philippe Gronon
Yossi Milo Gallery
Through July 11, 2008
Asako Narahashi: half awake and half asleep in the water
July 17 - August 22, 2008
Artist's reception: July 17, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Neil Folberg: Celestial Nights, Visions of an Ancient Land
Yeshiva University Museum
Through August 24, 2008

NEW YORK: MIDTOWN and UPTOWN
Cosmological Embeddedness OR The Flying Spaghetti Monster, featuring work by Henry Horenstein, Alex MacLean, Scott Peterman, Dan Torop, Danielle Van Ark, and Grant Willing among others
Higher Pictures
May 29 - July 3, 2008
Opening reception: May 29, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Paolo Pellegrin: Witness to History
June 5 - July 19^, 2008
Opening reception: June 5, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Bonnie Benrubi Gallery
Four Summer: Pamela Hanson, Peter Jones, Jeffrey Milstein and Lindy Smith
July 24 - September 20, 2008
Opening reception: July 24, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Elena Dorfman: Fandomania, Characters & Cosplay
Photographer @ the Library talk and book signing
New York Public Library Mid-Manhattan Branch
June 9, 6:30 pm

New York Fast Forward: Neil Denari Builds on the High Line
Museum of the City of New York
June 10 - September 14, 2008
Gallery tour with curator Donald Albrecht: June 28, 2:00 pm, free with museum admission

Left to right: 5 Juli 1983, West Berlin by Keizo Kitajima; Dunkerque, 1984 by Gabriele Basilico; Untitled #18 (detail) from DL 07 Stereotypes of War by Jens Liebchen. All copyright the artist, courtesy of Cohen Amador Gallery

Masao Mochizuki: Television 1975 - 1976
Through July 11, 2008
Cohen Amador Gallery
Original Books, featuring photographs by Morten Andersen, Gabriele Basilico, John Gossage, Keizo Kitajima and Jens Liebchen
July 16 -September 6, 2008
Opening reception: July 16, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Looking Back: Multimedia exhibition featuring work by Philip-Lorca di Corcia, Karen Kilimnik, Simon Linke, Dave McDermott, Robert Melee, Jonathan Monk, Harvey Opgenorth, Clifford Owens, Nina Pohl, David Schutter, Molly Springfield and Cheyney Thompson
Mireille Mosler, Ltd.
June 12 - July 26, 2008

Beijing 2008: Photographs by 20 contemporary Chinese photographers
China Institute Gallery
June 12 - August 17, 2008

Camille Seaman: Where There Should Be Ice
Candace Dwan Gallery
Through June 21, 2008
The Visual Path, featuring work by James Nicholls, Pentti Sammallahti, Prabir Purkayastha, George Tice, Olivier Meriel, Neil Folberg
June 25 - August 1, 2008
Opening reception: June 25, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Bill Wood's Business
Arbus, Avedon, Model: Selections from the Bank of America LaSalle Collection
International Center of Photography
Through September 7, 2008

NEW YORK: BROOKLYN and STATEN ISLAND
The Hustle, Exhibition and powerHouse Magazine launch party,
with music by DJ Emz
powerHouse Arena
May 28, 6:00 - 9:00 pm, rsvp sophie@powerhousbooks.com
Exhibition continues through July 13, 2008

Dogs Dogs Dogs: Family snapshots from the 1900s - 1950
The Alice Austin House Museum
June 1 - August 10, 2008
Grand opening party, June 1, 1:00 - 6:00 pm, sponsored by the Bubble Lounge

James Reeder: Transit and Structure
A.M. Richard Fine Art
June 27 - July 27, 2008
Opening reception: June 27, 6:00 - 9:00 pm

Sylia Plachy: Out of the Corner of My Eye
Umbrage Gallery
Through June 28, 2008
Virginia Lee Hunter: Carny - Americana on the Midway
July 3 – August 14
Opening reception and booksigning: July 10, 6:00 – 8:00 pm

William Greiner: Fallen Paradise
Klompching Gallery
Through June 25, 2008
Elaine Duigenan: Intimate Archaeology
July 9 - August 29
Opening reception: July 10, 6:00 - 8:00pm

Andrew Miksys: Baxt
Nelson Hancock Gallery
Through July 5, 2008

Czanara: The Art and Photography of Raymond Carrance
Wessel + O'Connor Fine Art
Through June 21, 2008

Best of Show: Portrait Edition, featuring work by Julia Fullerton-Batten, Lauren Greenfield, Nadav Kander, Achim Lippoth, Loretta Lux, Joyce Tenneson and more
Farmani Gallery
Through June 30, 2008

Alexandra Boulat: Modest – Women in the Middle East
VII Photo Agency
Through June 24, 2008

BEACON, New York, NY
Dispatches from the Frontlines: 12 Women Photojournalists
Fovea Editions Beacon GalleryJune 14 - August 9, 2008
Opening reception: June 14, 4:00 - 8:00 pm

ROCHESTER, New York, NY
Ed Kashi: Curse of the Black Gold - 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta
George Eastman House
June 14-September 1, 2008
Exhibition party: June 27, 7:00 - 9:30 pm. For tickets: 585-271-3361 ext. 434

Above: Three by Yumiko Izu from the Secret Garden series; copyright the artist, courtesy of Galerie BMG.

WOODSTOCK, NY
Second Regional Triennial of the Photographic Arts: The Camera Always Lies,
curated by Beth Wilson
The Center for Photography at Woodstock
June 14- August 17, 2008
Opening reception: June 14, 5:00 -7:00 pm

Laura D'Alessandro: Constructing the Feminine
Galerie BMG
July 4 - August 4, 2008
Artist's reception: July 12, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Yumiko Izu: Secret Garden
August 8 - September 8, 2008
Opening reception: August 9, 5:00 - 7:00 pm

WINCHESTER, MA
14th Juried Exhibition, featuring work by Bremner Benedict, Justyna Badach, Andrea Land, Cyrus Karimipour, Brian Shumway, Nicole Hatanaka and more
Griffen Museum
June 5 - August 31, 2008
Opening reception: June 5, 7:00 - 8:30 pm

PHILADELPHIA, PA
82nd Annual International Competition: Photography, juried by Joel Smith, Curator of Photography, Princeton University Art Museum
The Print Center
May 31 - August 2, 2008

Opening reception: May 31, 3:00 - 5:00pm; gallery talk with Joel Smith, 3:30 pm

Yale 2008 MFA Photography
Gallery 339
July 11 - September 6, 2008
Opening reception: July 11, 2008, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

WASHINGTON, DC
Sarah Wilmer: New photographs
Randall Scott Gallery
May 31 - July 5,2008
Opening reception: May 31, 7:00 - 9:00 p

Max Hirshfeld: Looking at Looking
Hemphill
June 5 - July 26, 2008
Opening reception: June 5, 6:30 - 8:30 pm

Justin Guariglia: Shaolin, Temple of Zen
National Geographic Society Museum
June 11 - September 7, 2008
Opening reception: June 11, 2008

Richard Misrach: On the Beach
National Gallery of Art
Through September 1, 2008
Artist's lecture: June 8, 2:00 pm

ATLANTA, GA
Feeding Desire: Photography and Mixed Media by Mark Starnes & Tracy Wagner
Whitespace
June 26 - Aug 9, 2008
Opening reception: June 26, 7-10 pm

GREENSBORO, NC
Dawoud Bey: Class Pictures
Weatherspoon Art Museum
June 29 - September 07, 2008

CHICAGO, IL
Jack Spencer: An Overview
Catherine Edelman Gallery
June 6 - July 12, 2008
Opening reception: June 6, 5:00 - 7:00 pm

Daniel Traub: City's Edge
Catherine Edelman Gallery
July 18 - August 29, 2008

Beyond the Backyard, featuring work by Shelby Lee Adams, Todd Hido, Sally Mann, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Bill Owens, Shawn Records, Amy Stein, and Garry Winogrand, among others
Museum of Contemporary Photography
June 20 - August 23, 2008

Ben Gest
Stephen Daiter Gallery
Through June 28, 2008

MINNEAPOLIS, MN
Mikhail Baryshnikov: Merce My Way - The Merce Cunningham Dance Company in Photographs
Weinstein Gallery
June 20 - August 2, 2008
Opening reception: June 20, 5:30 - 7:30

Fashioned, featuring work by Michael Dvorak, Martine Fougeron, Nick Kline, Jessica Rowe and Ryan Wong
Minnesota Center for Photography
Through July 15, 2008

Richard Prince: Spiritual America
Walker Art Center
Through September 14, 2008

MILWAUKEE, WI
Gilbert and George
Milwaukee Art Museum
June 14, 2008 - September 1, 2008

Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1969-1979
Haggerty Museum of Art
July 24, 2008 - September 28, 2008

DALLAS, TX
There's No Place Like Home, featuring work by Bill Owens, Chris Verene, Misty Keasler, Peter Riesett, Tom Atwood, William Greiner and Delilah Montoya
Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery
Through July 19, 2008
Contemporary Czech Photography, featuring work by Vojtech V. Slama, Evzen Sobek, Hana Jakrlova, Gabriela Kolcavova and Milan Fano Blatny
July 26 - August 30, 2008
Opening reception: July 26, 5:00 - 8:00 pm

TUCSON, AZ
Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers by Mark Richards
Etherton Gallery
June 14 - August 30, 2008
Reception and book signing: June 14, 7:00 - 10:00 pm

SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Amy Stein: New American Fables
Robert Koch Gallery
June 12 - August 23, 2008
Artist's reception: July 3, 2008, 5:30 - 7:30pm

The Art of Lee Miller
SFMoMA
July 1 - September 21, 2008

Christian Marclay: Stereo
Fraenkel Gallery
Through June 28, 2008

Barbara Morgan: Rhythmic Vitality, Dances in Silver
Scott Nichols Gallery
Through June 28, 2008
Frida & Diego, A Personal Memoir: Photographs by Lucienne Bloch
Images of Mexico, photographs by Edward Weston, Brett Weston, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Imogen Cunningham, and Paul Strand, among others
July 3 - August 30, 2008

LA JOLLA, CA
Cadillac: Photographs by Stephen Salmieri
Joseph Bellows Gallery
June 28 - August 30, 2008
Opening reception: June 28, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Above: Two from RFK Funeral Train, copyright Paul Fusco/Magnum Photos, courtesy of M+B Gallery

LOS ANGELES, CA
Paul Fusco: RFK Funeral Train M+B Gallery
June 5 - Extended through July 26, 2008
Opening reception: June 5, 6:00 - 10:00 pm

Harry Benson: Politics as Usual
David Gallery
June 21 - August 23, 2008
Opening reception and book signing: June 21, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Finger in Fame: Photographs by Travis Shinn
drkrm.gallery
Through June 29, 2008
Paul Zone: The New York Underground Scene 1972-1977
July 12 - August 31, 2008
Opening reception: July 12, 7:00 - 11:00 pm

SEATTLE, WA
Aline Smithson: Shadows & Stains
Wall Space Gallery
Through June 28, 2008

PORTLAND, OR
Roger Ballen: Photographs
Quality Pictures
Through June 28, 2008

Kazuumi Takahashi: High Tide, Wane Moon
Hartman Fine Art
Through June 21, 2008

TORONTO, ON
Robert Giard; Portraits, Nudes & Landscapes
Stephen Bulger Gallery
June 14 - August 2, 2008
Opening reception: May 3, 2:00 - 5:00 pm