Halsted Gallery will participate in the 2013 AIPAD show April 4 - 7. Tom and Wendy Halsted will present a variety of my photographs along with many other selections from their stellar collection of vintage and contemporary photographs. AIPAD is one of the most important international photography art events of the year and takes place in the historic Park Avenue Armory in New York City's Upper East Side.

API (Art Photo Index) is live! In July 2012 Rixon Reed of photo-eye invited a group of vetted art and documentary photographers to participate in a beta test of a new visual index and search engine. In December, 2012 API went live to the public and now boasts portfolios from over 2300 artists from around the world. You may visit my page at http://artphotoindex.com/Kimkauffman Take a look at this great new resource.

Several months ago I received a trunk of old famly photographs that I hadn't known existed. Spanning generations back to the Civil War, they have turned out to be a fascinating, mysterious and engrossing look at my father's ancestors. As I move ever forward through the constant change of photography, these photographs have beckoned me to look backward, as well. As I learn to identify the faces of my relatives I also learn to recognize tintypes, ambrotypes in union cases, albumen prints on carte de visites, hand-colored graduation portraits. With online research I have learned when these photographic forms were popular. That, in turn, helps me figure out which generation of relatives I'm looking at. It is an intriguing puzzle to put together and I don't know that it would be possible without the clues the actual objects afford me along with occasional notes made by my grandmother and great grandmother.