© Kevin Scanlon

Pee-wee Herman (actor Paul Reubens) is taken aback as Kevin Scanlon catches him off-guard. More images from Scalon’s series can be seen in the PDN Faces 2010 online gallery.

All Images © Reed Young

Sturgis, a prairie town on the westernmost edge of South Dakota, claims only 6,000 permanent residents… The town swells to nearly a half million for the first week of August every summer during the famous motorcycle rally. At the end of the 2008 rally, 66 marriage licenses had been issued, 3 rally-related deaths occurred, millions of t-shirts had been sold, the South Dakota economy claimed $10.5 million in rally-related sales, and 543 tons of garbage were hauled away. These are just a few faces of another Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in America’s heartland. To see more of Reed Young’s work click here.

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© Jeff Bark. Lucifer Falls. Plate IV, 2010.

Lucifer Falls is an exhibit of Jeff Bark’s new body of work opening at the Haster Hunt Kraeutler Gallery on September 9th and through October 16, 2010. The series of photographs of waterfalls is a departure from his earlier series for which he constructed elaborate sets in the studio. See more of Jeff Bark’s work here.

© Fondazione Sella. Courtesy Panopticon Gallery/Decaneas Archive, Boston, MA.

Pictured here is Vittorio Sella on the Highest Peak of the Rouies as seen from the Chardon Glacier, August 3, 1888. Vittorio Sella’s home was in Biella, Italy – he began his career in 1879, climbing and photographing the nearby Alps with his 11×14 large-format field camera and wet plate collodion glass negatives. The great Italian photographer passed away on this day, August 12, in 1943.

The exhibit, Heights of Observation: The Photographs of Vittorio Sella (1859 – 1943), will open on September 9 and run though November 8 at the Panopticon Gallery.

More from the gallery here.

© Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison. Courtesy Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago.

Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison, the husband and wife team whose photographic tableaus address the triangular relationship of humans, technology and nature, return to Chicago with “Beginnings,” an exhibition of collages they made when working on pieces for The Architect’s Brother. These never-before-seen images reveal the ideas and concepts that went into making some of their best known works. The exhibition opens on September 10 at the Catherine Edelman Gallery and closes on October 30.

To see more of Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison’s work click here.