Thursday, March 31, 2011
Exhibiting your collection
At the Bank of America exhibit at the MFA you curated your own mini collection. It's time to exhibit it. Post the four images, complete with captions (name, title, year). You will also need a name for your exhibit and a short artist statement that helps the random viewer understand why you have chosen these four images, what they are doing together, what they mean in the larger world of photography. Remember, sequence and order are part of the viewing experience. Enjoy.
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I looked up the photos, but I can't upload them, so here are the titles;
ReplyDeleteCarrie Mae Weems, from the Kitchen Table Series, 1990
Henry Callahan, Chicago, 1950
Larry Sultan, the Green Wall, from pictures at Home, 1984
William Klein, 4 Heads, New York, 1926
This exhibit would be called "Expression and Gesture".
All of these photos are excellent examples of the endless subtleties and possibilities presented by portraiture, with subjects who are aware or unaware of the photographer. These photos capture moments that help the viewer understand how photography lets us understand and connect with the subject, and what it's like to look at humanity from different perspectives. They are all from different periods in time, but express similar underlying ideas. They allow the viewer to access variety and creativity that exists in portraiture, and in photography.
Taliban Surrender by Luc Delajaye
ReplyDeleteRaising the Flag in Iwo Jima by Jow Rosenthal
Seascaoe with Yaht and Tugboat by Gustavo le Gray
Chuck, Alice, and Gail by Ben Jest
"Still Movies"
These four photographs all have a sense of the cinematic. They could almost be film stills that have been taken right from the middle of their respected movies. Taliban Surrender gives the feeling of a movie set, with the crew gathering on their film set. Iwo Jima is a very cinematic and iconic photograph, the viewer can envision the soldiers pushing the flag up. Seascape is like the grandfather of film, it gives the vintage feeling of being a still from one of the first movies. Ben Jest creates his scene with the mentality that "a photograph is always something of fiction, and the photographer is the stage director." All of these photographs feel like they have been put together by their respective stage directors.