ACTUAL SIZE! PHOTOGRAPHY AT LIFE SCALE
2022-04-25Actual Size! Photography at Life Scale explores what happens when a photograph is the very same size as its subject matter-when a photograph of a bus is the size of a bus, when a photograph of Muhammad Ali’s fist is its actual size, when a postcard of hail stones records their sizes for posterity. Image makers of every kind, from fine artists to advertisers, have explored the strange magic that happens when the photograph becomes an uncanny double for the world it depicts. Works by Ace Lehner, Laura Letinsky, Kija Lucas, Tanya Marcuse, Aspen Mays, Jeff Wall and others share the walls with anonymous posters, magazine spreads, and book covers.
Opposite – Schindly Photo, HAIL STORM, Sunbury PA., June 18, 1910, 1910
Exhibition runs through to May 2nd, 2022
ICP Museum
79 Essex Street
New York
NY 10002
