VERA LUTTER – MUSEUM IN THE CAMERA

Posted on 2020-05-25

From February 2017 to January 2019, New York-based artist Vera Lutter was invited by LACMA to work in residence at the museum, creating a new body of work examining the campus architecture, galleries, and collection holdings. Vera Lutter: Museum in the Camera features the compelling photographs made during her two-year residency.

Lutter uses one of the oldest optical technologies still in use, that of the camera obscura. Before the invention of photography, it was known that if light traveled through a tiny hole into a darkened room, an image of the external world (off which the light rays had reflected) would re-form upside down on a wall opposite the tiny opening. By building room-sized cameras and placing unexposed photo paper across from a pinhole opening, Lutter has adopted the camera obscura as her singular working method, resulting in photographs with an ethereal, otherworldly beauty.

Opposite – Rodin Garden, I: February 22, 2017

Exhibition runs through to August 9th, 2020

Bronx Documentary Center
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles
CA 90036

www.lacma.org

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THOUGHT PIECES

Posted on 2020-05-25

In the early 1970s, Lew Thomas set out to disrupt photography in San Francisco. Tired of the mystical thinking and emotionalism that he felt had dominated work produced in the region since the 1940s, Thomas pursued a practice grounded in Conceptual art and contemporary philosophy. Donna-Lee Phillips and Hal Fischer were among the cohort of photographers who embraced Thomas’s mission and followed his lead in exploring the relationship between photography and language. For a short but intensely active period from the mid to late 1970s, the three frequently exhibited together, wrote about one another’s work, and published books under the imprint NFS Press, founded by Thomas and Phillips. This exhibition reunites their work for the first time in decades, offering an opportunity to reassess their legacy in the Bay Area, and their place in the larger history of photography.

Opposite – Signifiers for a Male Response, from Gay Semiotics, 1977

Exhibition runs through to September 7th, 2020

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street
San Francisco
CA 94103

www.sfmoma.org

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TRUMP REVOLUTION: CLIMATE CRISIS

Posted on 2020-05-25

Featuring works from Stacy Kranitz, Kadir van Lohuizen, Yuri Kozyrev, Katie Orlinsky, Bryan Thomas, Marcus Yam.

Through photos, words and multimedia, the BDC exhibition, Trump Revolution: Climate Crisis, documents the current president’s overturning of decades of American environmental policy, and its profound effects on American society and our planet at large.

This is the second in a year-long series of Trump Revolution exhibitions examining America’s societal and political transformation, one whose speed, reach and consequences are unmatched in our country’s history.

Opposite – A 16-year-old resident of Island View Drive wipes her tears, as she looks on at her family’s home destroyed by the Thomas fire, the morning after the fire started, in Ventura, Calif., on Dec. 5, 2017, Marcus Yam

Exhibition runs through to June 29th, 2020

Bronx Documentary Center
614 Courtlandt Avenue
New York
NY 10451

www.bronxdoc.org

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