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Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life -- Thru 13 Jan
Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500 Seventeenth Street NW, Washington, DC
Ansel Adams - Thru 27 Jan
Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500 Seventeenth Street NW, Washington, DC
Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945 - Thru 13 Jan
Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street), New York, NY
Jan Theun van Rees: One Wall Away: Chicago’s Hidden Spaces - 25 Oct - 12 Jan
Museum of Contemporary Photography, 600 S. Michigan, Chicago, IL
Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500 Seventeenth Street NW, Washington, DC
Ansel Adams - Thru 27 Jan
Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500 Seventeenth Street NW, Washington, DC
Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945 - Thru 13 Jan
Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street), New York, NY
Jan Theun van Rees: One Wall Away: Chicago’s Hidden Spaces - 25 Oct - 12 Jan
Museum of Contemporary Photography, 600 S. Michigan, Chicago, IL
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“A photograph is a secret about a secret.
The more it tells you the less you know.”
Diane Arbus
Went downtown (DC) this past Monday with my son and took a look at Annie and Ansel. Even though I enjoy each of them for different reasons I came away feeling very much like I'd seen too much B&W.
Annie does have some color images, not many. Also I did not realize that this show of hers would be soo depressing. Not one smile among her subjects. I did know she would be focusing on the two deaths she's experienced, so my bad, I was forewarned.
Ansel, as always, was fabulous - I think the history behind his art is just mind blowing.
~Mary~
Annie does have some color images, not many. Also I did not realize that this show of hers would be soo depressing. Not one smile among her subjects. I did know she would be focusing on the two deaths she's experienced, so my bad, I was forewarned.
Ansel, as always, was fabulous - I think the history behind his art is just mind blowing.
~Mary~
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Funny - I saw a lot of smiles in the Leibovitz galleries. The one that's followed me around for days is Eudora Welty's. She looks like she's in mid-mischief, but maybe it's just the delight of one fine photographer gazing into the lens of another.
There are two other smiles still following me around, but I don't know whose they are. A joyful, wild-haired man in a black shirt wearing a grin and an eye patch, a baby straddling his shoulders also grinning and wearing an eye patch? A group of people was clustered in front of it and I couldn't guess from my angle whether it was Ray Sawyer, Dale Chihuly...? And didn't get back to it to find out.
Anyway, I didn't find her work depressing. Even her pictures of her parents and Susan Sontag as they neared the end of their lives seemed gentle and peaceful and honest in ways that were unexpectedly inviting and reassuring.
I loved the walls of tacked-up comps -- her planning process for the exhibit and book -- and was surprised by her work in Sarajevo and Rwanda. I hadn't known she'd worked there. And though the picture of the bloody footprints going up and up and up the wall in the room where children had been massacred was a deeply shocking thing to contemplate, for me it was more about the courage to go on than about the sadness of life.
In December, the Corcoran's showing a documentary by filmmaker Barbara Leibovitz since it's touted as showing her older sister's artistic process. The short film that's part of the exhibit only made me want to stop and click on things. Show more on this. No use, the loop just rushes on.
As for the Ansel Adams exhibit on the other side of the museum (Leibovitz's portrait of him sits on the "continental divide" between the exhibits), I was fascinated by the changes in his work over time. I'd never seen actual prints from his pre-f/64 soft focus "pictorialist" beginnings -- images printed on warm, very textured paper that often look painted or sketched more than photographed. I'd seen some of the images reproduced in books but seeing the actual prints was a kick in the head. There's so much more there than the books can show. Superb.
I also loved the juxtaposition of prints he'd made from the same negatives at different times with different darkroom choices and the sequence of photographs made looking down as waves swept ashore on the California coast. Also enjoyed seeing how, though he didn't have Photoshop, he made roads and buildings disappear as he pleased.
There are two other smiles still following me around, but I don't know whose they are. A joyful, wild-haired man in a black shirt wearing a grin and an eye patch, a baby straddling his shoulders also grinning and wearing an eye patch? A group of people was clustered in front of it and I couldn't guess from my angle whether it was Ray Sawyer, Dale Chihuly...? And didn't get back to it to find out.
Anyway, I didn't find her work depressing. Even her pictures of her parents and Susan Sontag as they neared the end of their lives seemed gentle and peaceful and honest in ways that were unexpectedly inviting and reassuring.
I loved the walls of tacked-up comps -- her planning process for the exhibit and book -- and was surprised by her work in Sarajevo and Rwanda. I hadn't known she'd worked there. And though the picture of the bloody footprints going up and up and up the wall in the room where children had been massacred was a deeply shocking thing to contemplate, for me it was more about the courage to go on than about the sadness of life.
In December, the Corcoran's showing a documentary by filmmaker Barbara Leibovitz since it's touted as showing her older sister's artistic process. The short film that's part of the exhibit only made me want to stop and click on things. Show more on this. No use, the loop just rushes on.
As for the Ansel Adams exhibit on the other side of the museum (Leibovitz's portrait of him sits on the "continental divide" between the exhibits), I was fascinated by the changes in his work over time. I'd never seen actual prints from his pre-f/64 soft focus "pictorialist" beginnings -- images printed on warm, very textured paper that often look painted or sketched more than photographed. I'd seen some of the images reproduced in books but seeing the actual prints was a kick in the head. There's so much more there than the books can show. Superb.
I also loved the juxtaposition of prints he'd made from the same negatives at different times with different darkroom choices and the sequence of photographs made looking down as waves swept ashore on the California coast. Also enjoyed seeing how, though he didn't have Photoshop, he made roads and buildings disappear as he pleased.
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“A photograph is a secret about a secret.
The more it tells you the less you know.”
Diane Arbus
Bamako – 24 Nov thru 23 Dec
African Photography Encounters. Bamako, Mali. www.fotoafrica.org.
Canadian Centre for Architecture – Current thru 3 Feb 2008
Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales. 1920 Rue Baile, Montreal, Canada. www.cca.qc.ca
Foundation Cartier pour l’art contemporain. – Current thru 28 Oct
Rock & Rool archives 39-59. 261 Boulevard Raspail, Paris. www.foundation.cartier.com
International Center of Photography. – Current thry 6 Jan 2008
This is War! Robert Capa at work. 1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd St. New York. www.icp.org
Valentina Moncada Gallery – Current thru 30 Nov
Teatri d’invenzione by Carlo Gavazzeni. Via Margutta 54, Rome.
V&A Museum – Current thru 6 Jan 2008
The Art of Lee Miller. V&A Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7. www.vam.ac.uk