MEMORY

Posted on 2018-02-05

Our current state of awareness is deeply influenced by our experiences, interpretations and memories of the past. These memories shape our stories, our personal histories and identities. Photography is intrinsically a long-standing tool for capturing moments, and the medium has the uncanny ability to recall times that possibly otherwise would have been forgotten. The act of observation and using the camera as a keepsake box to preserve our histories is a unique characteristic of the medium. The photographic works which encompass this exhibition explore the notion of memory through intimate expressions of personal histories, courageously expressed recollections, and a range of experiences.

Opposite – Ellie Cooper

Exhibition runs through to March 16th, 2018

Midwest Center for Photography
1215 Franklin
Wichita
67203 KS

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JEAN PAGLIUSO – POULTRY, RAPTORS, PLACES OF RITUAL

Posted on 2018-02-05

Following a 30-year career as a portrait photographer working for such publications as Vogue, Times, Newsweek, Time and Rolling Stone, Pagliuso decided to turn her lens on a less traditional subject: chickens.

What began as a way to honor her father’s love of breeding show chickens has since become an extensive collection of poultry portraits. Pagliuso has taken close-up shots of over 20 different chicken breeds, posing them and focusing on the unique plumage and expressions of each.

“I don’t see it as any different at all from photographing people. It’s exactly the same to me. I look for the same things. I look for form and the way the frame is filled,” Pagliuso said in a 2015 interview with Slate Magazine.

The black and white images are hand printed on nearly transparent paper. Pagliuso’s treatment of the birds, combined with the delicacy of the printing materials, create a dignified and surprisingly moving series of portraits.

FMoPA Executive Director Zora Carrier, Ph.D. believes Pagliuso’s chickens resonatebecause she photographs them the same way she photographs fashion models and celebrities.

“In the literary arts, animals are often used as a metaphor for human behavior. I think part of the reason these photographs are so successful at capturing our attention isbecause they bring that same metaphorical quality to the visual arts,” said Carrier.

Opposite – Poultry Suite: Variegated #31, 2010

Exhibition runs through to March 16th, 2018

Florida Museum of Photographic Arts
400 N. Ashley Drive
Tampa
FL 33602

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NILS FRAHM – ALL MELODY

Posted on 2018-02-05

For the past two years, Nils Frahm has been building a brand new studio in Berlin to make his 7th studio album titled All Melody.

Words from Nils, October 2017:

“In the process of completion, any album not only reveals what it has become but, maybe more importantly, what it hasn’t become. All Melody was imagined to be so many things over time and it has been a whole lot, but never exactly what I planned it to be. I wanted to hear beautiful drums, drums I’ve never seen or heard before, accompanied by human voices, girls, and boys. They would sing a song from this very world and it would sound like it was from a different space. I heard a synthesiser which sounds like a harmonium playing the All Melody, melting together with a line of a harmonium sounding like a synthesiser. My pipe organ would turn into a drum machine, while my drum machine would sound like an orchestra of breathy flutes. I would turn my piano into my very voice, and any voice into a ringing string. The music I hear inside me will never end up on a record, as it seems I can only play it for myself. This record includes what I think sticks out and describes my recent musical discoveries in the best possible way I could imagine.”

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STANCE SOCKS X STREET FIGHTER II

Posted on 2018-02-05

In the early 1990s Japanese video games company Capcom released one of the world’s most popular video arcade franchise titles of all time, Street Fighter 2. With countless hours played and millions in currency invested mastering each of its original eight characters unique fight technics, kids, young adults, and gamers from all over the globe were instantly hooked. The designs feature the game’s original 1991 artwork, a couple of showdowns, one between Kyu and Ken, the other between Guile and Blanka.

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