re:collection
@ Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL60605
Opening Thursday, July 13th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, October 1st
Photography as a medium is distinctive in its relationship to the practice of sequencing. With its origins in cinematic frames and a typically flat, reproducible form, photography lends itself to a storyboard approach. Photo books and exhibitions often depend on, and capitalize on, the fact that photographs that work well as stand-alone images can be enhanced and enriched by the presence of other images in their vicinity.
re:collection is a celebration of the MoCP’s vast archive of photographs, and an exploration of how we perceive images. A stream of images runs through the galleries, spanning the history of photography and offering a diverse array of approaches. Each photograph speaks to its neighboring photograph in terms of content, form or another, more subtle, connecting factor waiting to be discovered. At certain junctures, tributaries are formed that group related ideas and address some of the most pressing social issues of our time. Each line of images starts with a camera-less construction, a nod to the beginnings of the medium when images were made without the camera apparatus as we know it today, and a gesture meant to underscore the unreliability of photographic representation.
The exhibition will include works by Evan Baden, Dawoud Bey, Lynne Cohen, Kelli Connell, Kei Ito, Deborah Luster, Danny Lyon, Rachel Papo, Christian Patterson, Guillaume Simoneau, Angela Strassheim, Penelope Umbrico, James Welling, and many others.
re:collection has been organized by Columbia College Chicago graduate students Kalin Haydon, Carissa Meier, and Shawn Rowe, together with Sophie Haslinger, Collection Research Fellow, Karen Irvine, Deputy Director and Chief Curator and Kristin Taylor, Manager of Collections.
The 2016-2017 season is sponsored by the Efroymson Family Fund and the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
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Tags: Angela Strassheim, Carissa Meier, Chicago, Christian Patterson, Danny Lyon, Dawoud Bey, Deborah Luster, Evan Baden, Guillaume Simoneau, James Welling, Kalin Haydon, Karen Irvine, Kei Ito, Kelli Connell, Kristin Taylor, Loop, Lynne Cohen, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Penelope Umbrico, Rachel Papo, Recollection, Shawn Rowe, Sophie Haslinger
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