Snow and ice almost gone from shady side of street. 8:38 am
Went to gym early.
Very good UTM meeting with Seth and Jan about developers.
Went to Harrington’s for paint. Very expensive $49 per gallon. Paint DOG rooms tomorrow. Continue reading
Went to Woodstock to see exhibition at Center for Photography at Woodstock.
Had a great bite to eat at Oriole 9.
Then to CPW. Last day of this exhibition:
HOME GROWN: Fellowship Recipients 2005 – 2014
Curated by Ariel Shanberg & Helena Kaminski
Featuring Craig J. Barber, Karen Davis, Isaac Diggs, Tara Fracalossi, Danny Goodwin, Deb Hall, James Heil, Yumiko Izu, Chad Kleitsch, Kristina E. Knipe, Mark Lyon, Tanya Marcuse, Jennifer Lynn Morse, Harvey Osterhoudt, and Phil Underdown.
Karen’s “Little Procedures”
This online business, now defunct, was set up to sell 8.5 x 11 inch prints from a wide range of photographers at a standard $100 price. Karen corralled over 50 photographers into participating. DavisOrtonEditions.com was set up as the e-commerce platform.
We held a pop-up show to kick it off. Some of the work was matted and framed so that people could see how such a relatively small print size would look hanging on the wall.
Milton and Anne Rogovin – June 2003
During one of our whirlwind weekends in New York, Karen and I went to the New York Historical Society (2 West 77th Street New York, NY 10024 http://www.nyhistory.org) to catch the last day of the exhibit, REMEMBERING THE FORGOTTEN ONES: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF MILTON ROGOVIN.
This proved to be the best photography, most engaging exhibit I have seen in years.
“A joint project of the NYHS, Sound Portraits Production (the Society’s collaborators on the 2001 exhibition Flophouse ), and the Burchfield-Penney Art Center in Buffalo, this remarkable exhibition combines prime examples of 93-year-old Rogovin’s photographs of Buffalo over five decades (including recent work), with audio installations and artifacts. The exhibition is accompanied by a short film, The Forgotten Ones , directed by Harvey Wang (which won the Best Documentary Short award at the 2003 Tribeca Film Festival), and a new book, Milton Rogovin: The Forgotten Ones (with Dave Isay, David Miller and Harvey Wang; published by Quantuck Lane Press in June, 2003).”
(from the New York Historical Society web site)
At the heart of the experience was a roomful of tryptichs, photos taken of the same family, if not always the same family members spanning three decades. Rogovin combined brief texts by one or more of those pictured and some included audio versions with the authors of the text speaking.
Here are a few images:
Eva and Daughter 1972, 1985, and 1992 (image borrowed without permission from The Getty Museum (http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/objects/o112420.html)
Grandparents and Baptism Boy 1974, 1985, 1992 (image borrowed without permission from The Getty Museum http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/objects/oz112421.html)
And an updated “quartet” extending the one above:
Here are a couple of other pictures gleaned from various web sites:
(from the Working People series)
There is a Milton Rogovin website.
October 2, 2001 – January 21, 2002 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Karen and I saw a few of Ms. Ristelhueber’s photographs a couple of years ago at the Museum of Modern Art (New York). They were part of MOMA’s annual New Photography selections. We were struck then by the power of her work.
The current exhibit at the MFA includes “Fait”, 71 approximately 4 ft x 4 ft photographs taken in the deserts of Kuwait shortly after the end of the “Desert Storm” war. Some are taken from a helicopter and others are at ground level. All are intensely detailed but in some strange way quite abstract in their impact. This is accentuated in the exhibition by the juxtaposition of aerial and close-ups so that at first glance one can not be sure which is which. This is the scene of modern warfare.
Another series of photographs entitled” Beirut” are 31 small black and white photographs of a streetscape in war torn Beirut. Another confrontation with the results of war.
There is more here in this extensive exhibit. We highly recommend it.
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Every One, #3, 1994 Black and white photograph mounted on fiberboard 106 x 71 inches, unique installation at the Centraal Museum, Utrecht.
(Picture to left and text description above borrowed from MFA web site 01/15/02) |
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