Posts Tagged ‘photography exhibitions’
Todd Stewart “Photographs from A Narrative Atlas of the Great Basin”
Landscapes are constructs. They are derived from the complex layering of a particular physical geography with the cultural, political, and other ideological concerns of those that inhabit them. Because they represent an accumulation of human activity over time, their meaning is contingent upon, and reflective of, both historical and contemporary values. A Narrative Atlas of…
Read MoreVirginia Beahan at Joslyn Art Museum
Virginia Beahan’s photographs tell a story that is at once demanding, joyous, surprising, and painful. In the fall of 2002, Beahan and her husband helped her 88-year-old mother, Jeanne Cadwallader, sell her house in Yardley, Pennsylvania, and moved her to their home in rural New Hampshire. In failing health, her mother’s doctors believed she would…
Read MoreINVASIVE: Photographs by David Luke
David Luke’s body of work, Invasive, combines photographic imagery of northern Minnesota’s boreal forest with the state’s southern and central prairies. These collaged images visualize imminent transformations to the state’s land and water due to climate change and invasive species. David Luke “Big Lake, Boundary Waters” Archival Inkjet Print David Luke: “Big Moose Lake, Boundary…
Read MoreCaroline Allison “Underground Again” at Zeitgeist Gallery in Nashville
“Underground Again” meditates on ways history underlines the present – be it social, political, ecological, or geological. Through a shared engagement with source materials derived from the landscape, the exhibition emerges and overlaps from the remains of social-philosophical models, earth-based systems, perceptions of time, and abandoned spaces of invention. Looking to these ideas, the interconnected…
Read MoreNoelle Mason “Incident Report”
Most skydiving photography uses wide-angle lenses and fast shutter speeds to freeze time and capture images with the highest possible clarity. In contrast, “Incident Report” uses a lens-less pin-hole camera which does not refract light but instead allows the image to imprint itself directly onto a piece of film over a period of three seconds…
Read MoreThere was a whole collection made: Photography from Lester and Betty Guttman at the Smart Museum of Art
An extraordinary collection of 830 photographic works spanning from 1844 to 2012, given as a bequest to the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, forms the basis of “There was a whole collection made: Photography from Lester and Betty Guttman” exhibition. There was a whole collection made mines the Estate of Lester and…
Read MoreRineke Dijkstra: Rehearsals and The Lives of Other: Portraits from the Photography Collection at Milwaukee Art Museum
Over the past 30 years, Dijkstra has produced a sensitive and eloquent body of photographic and video work. In her large-scale photographs and video installations, she is particularly interested in moments of transition, especially adolescence, a time when individuals build their own identities and begin to present themselves in the way they wish to…
Read MoreHumanism + Dynamite = The Soviet Photomontages of Aleksandr Zhitomirsky at the The Art Institute of Chicago
“What gives the strength of dynamite to the photo-poster and pamphlet? First of all, its motto is humanism. And, of course, the ability to see in subjects something new, that which others do not see, but that they should by all means see.”—Aleksandr Zhitomirsky, The Art of Political Photomontage, 1983 Zhitomirsky began publishing drawings in…
Read MoreAtsuko Morita “365” at Space236 in San Francisco
The “365 ” exhibit is now over two years in the making. Using a pinhole camera I crafted specifically for this project, I have captured one moment from each day in my life. The photos are clustered by month, with a small portion of the negative exposed for each calendar day. I have been producing projects for years…
Read MoreAmy Rockett-Todd and Antonia Small
What began as a trek through the woods towards Fairy Beach, with canned chairs atop the heads of her children, fusing the paths of two wellie-wearing women … Amy Rockett-Todd met Antonia Small on that rocky beach the summer of 2012. As Jack, Antonia’s jack Russell,perched himself atop a nearby rock, the two discovered they were both…
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