Thursday, February 28, 2008

ONGOING EXHIBITIONS IN THE USA

The trend of collecting found photographs is spreading, and the museums and galleries are catching the virus. Below is a list of current exhibitions that are not to be missed.

The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888-1978: From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson.
Amon Carter Museum, Fortworth, TX: February 16April 27, 2008
With the advent of George Eastman’s Kodak camera and roll film in 1888, photography became an everyday aspect of modern life. Trace the history of the snapshot in America, from the late nineteenth century up to the 1970s, in this special exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Art.
http://www.cartermuseum.org/exhibitions/the-art-of-the-american-snapshot-1888-1978-from-the-collection-of-robert-e-jackson

Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art
Internation Center of Photography, New York, NY: January 18 - May 4, 2008
Organized by renowned scholar and ICP Adjunct Curator Okwui Enwezor, Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art will present works by leading contemporary artists who use archival documents to rethink the meaning of identity, history, memory, and loss. Over the past thirty years, successive generations have taken wide-ranging approaches to the photographic and filmic archive. The works presented here take many forms, including physical archives arranged by peculiar cataloguing methods, imagined biographies of fictitious persons, collections of found and anonymous photographs, film versions of photographic albums, and photomontages composed of historical photographs. These images have a wide-ranging subject matter yet are linked by the artists' shared meditation on photography and film as the quintessential media of the archive.
http://www.icp.org/site/c.dnJGKJNsFqG/b.3639335/

The American Typologies by Pine & Woods
D3Projects Gallery, Santa Monica, CA: January 5 - March 6, 2008
Pine & Woods have been collaborating on this body of work for eight years. Inspired by Bernd and Hilla Becher, they have rigorously focused on collecting anonymous snapshots with particular themes in order to compose portraits of American culture.
http://d3projects.net/exhibits/the_american_typologies_by_pine_woods_jan_5_feb_23_2008_13

Les Femmes Aux Cigarettes
The Found Photo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA: Starts March 1st, 2008
http://www.thefoundphoto.com/

Disfarmer
Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA: January 12 - March 1, 2008
Plucked from obscurity by a dedicated team of researchers, the humble studio portraits of Mike Disfarmer, an eccentric small town photographer from Herber Springs, Arkansas, stand as inadvertent elegies for working Americans from the Depression Era through the turbulence of World War II. At a time of great economic and personal struggles, Disfamer captured with great eloquence and honesty, the reality of the American condition, and its effect on its small town citizens from a rural farming community.
http://www.rosegallery.net/now_showing/index.html


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