Photography : EXIT

BUT STILL, IT TURNS

Posted on 2021-06-14

This exhibition presents photography attuned to this consciousness, photography from the world, from life as it is-in all its complicated wonder-in the twenty-first-century United States: from Vanessa Winship’s peripatetic vision in she dances on Jackson through Curran Hatleberg’s gatherings of humankind in Lost Coast; Richard Choi’s meditation on the differences between the flow of life and our memory of it in What Remains; RaMell Ross’s images of quotidian life from South County; Gregory Halpern’s luminous Californian journey in ZZYZX; Piergiorgio Casotti and Emanuele Brutti’s Index G work on the delicate balance between economic theory and lived fact; Kristine Potter’s re-examination of the Western myth of manifest destiny in Manifest; or Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa’s braiding the power of images with the forces of history in All My Gone Life.

Opposite – Curran Hatleberg, Lost Coast, 2014

Exhibition runs through to August 15th, 2021

ICP Museum
79 Essex Street
New York
NY 10002

www.icp.org

MANZANAR – WARTIME PHOTOGRAPHS OF ANSEL ADAMS

Posted on 2021-06-14

Adams’s Manzanar photographs, created in 1943, are a departure from his signature style of landscape photography and serve as documentation of the Japanese relocation camp in California. The series was originally shown in the exhibition BORN FREE AND EQUAL: An Exhibition of Ansel Adams Photographs, organized by the Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art, History and Science in 1984. The photographs document a dark period for America and serve as a reminder “about an unfortunate moment in our country’s history that must be better understood. It also should serve as a warning as to what can occur when emotion and fear overwhelm clarity and courage.”

Opposite – Manzanar Street Scene, Spring, 1943

Exhibition runs through to July 25th, 2021

Fenimore Art Museum
5798 State Highway 80
Cooperstown
NY 13326

www.fenimoreartmuseum.org

DOUGLAS MILES – FUTURE INTERCEPT

Posted on 2021-06-14

San Carlos Apache-Akimel O’odham artist Douglas Miles’s artistic work is rooted in Apache history and deeply engaged with the world of contemporary pop culture. His latest photographic composite series, Future Intercept, transverses through time, rejecting western exotic, white gaze, stereotypes of Native people in America as a way to re-imagine the future of Indigenous and Native communities. Through the exploration of Futurism, we are presented with a narrative that looks back on a distraught past to reconstruct and foretell an impending future. By bending and folding the past and future as it collides, Miles photographic work speaks on lineage and legacy within a community whose roots are deeply embedded across the Americas.

Exhibition runs August 6th through to August 21st, 2021

Obscura Gallery
1405 Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe
NM 87505

www.obscuragallery.net

MERYL MEISLER – NEW YORK PARADISE LOST

Posted on 2021-06-07

Meryl Meisler’s series “New York PARADISE LOST Bushwick Era Disco” is an intimate journey through the pandemonium and ecstasy of New York City from the 1970s to the early 1990s. Meisler documents a tumultuous time in the city’s history marred by epidemics of crime, addiction, and AIDS, intensified by a paralyzing blackout and political and fiscal crises. Frequenting Manhattan’s legendary discos that arose from the disorder, she captured hedonistic havens patronized by celebrities and revelers of the night. In contrast, daylight revealed the beauty of those who loved and thrived in burnt-out Bushwick, where Meisler worked as a public school art teacher and continuously documented her surroundings.

Opposite – Family Picnic, Palmetto Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY, September 1982

Exhibition runs through to July 9th, 2021

ClampArt
247 West 29th Street, Ground Floor
New York
NY 10001

clampart.com

TRANSFORMATION – A PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT

Posted on 2021-06-07

The photographer is an artist who applies a lens to the world and the contemporary social order. TRANSFORMATION is a gathering of powerful and intriguing images that open stories of our times and portray a world undergoing transformation.

The exhibition will also explore the transformation of the photographic process. Photography as an artistic medium has been the beneficiary of changing technologies and new materials in the last quarter century. The artist now has dramatic latitude in terms of scale and visual media. Photography is no longer just a pretty picture or a document. It can be many things at once, integrating many materials and media.

Opposite – Pieter Hugo, Abdullahi Mohammed with Mainasara, Ogre-Remo, Nigeria, 2007

Exhibition runs through to August 21st, 2021

Blowing Rock Art and History Museum
159 Ginny Stevens Lane
Blowing Rock
NC 28605

www.blowingrockmuseum.org

AN-MY LE – DO-MI-NO

Posted on 2021-06-07

The title of the exhibition, đô-mi-nô, alludes to the Cold War-era geopolitical concept of “domino theory.” Đô-mi-nô is the translation from French to a Vietnamese that is the modern national version that was romanized by European Jesuit priests in the 1600s.

For over twenty-five years, the Vietnamese American photographer An-My Lê has been steadily redefining the tradition of documentary photography. Working in distinct series which often span years, her work has shown her to be one of the most reliable witnesses to the complexities of American life. Her photographs, taken with a large-format film camera, often blur the boundaries between the actual and its representation, embracing performance as a means to explore conflict and war, the military-industrial complex, and national identity through memory and place. Her clear-eyed perception and distanced perspective call into question the status of photographic ‘objectivity,’ and coax the complexities of various sociopolitical settings and of human behavior.

Opposite – Security and Stabilization Operations, Iraqi Police, from 29 Palms, 2003-2004

Exhibition runs through to August 20th, 2021

Marian Goodman Gallery
24 West 57th Street
New York
NY 10019

www.mariangoodman.com