New Photography 2010
29 September 2010 - 10 January 2011
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| © Alex Prager
Julie. 2007
Chromogenic color print
36 x 47 1/2" (91.4 x 120.7 cm).
Image courtesy the artist and Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York. |
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NEW PHOTOGRAPHY 2010
September 29, 2010–January 10, 2011
The Edward Steichen Photography Galleries, third floor
New Photography 2010 presents four artists—Roe Ethridge, Elad Lassry,
Alex Prager, and Amanda Ross-Ho—whose photographs, taken in the real
world and made in the studio, mine the inexhaustible reservoir of images
found in print media, television, and cinema. Ethridge takes his shoots
in "editorial mode,” directly borrowing from commercial images already
in circulation, including outtakes from his own illustrational magazine
work. Lassry defines his practice as one consumed with pictures, meaning
with generic images lifted from the fag-ends of consumer society, such
as Hollywood publicity stills and design illustrations. His intensely
colored photocollages or newly staged studio pictures never exceed the
format of a magazine spread and are displayed in matching frames that
derive their color from the dominant hues in the photograph. Ross-Ho’s
mix-and-match installations lined up with pictures of needlepoint and
textile designs renegotiate the definition of craft in contemporary art.
Prager takes her cues from pulp fiction and the fashion images of Guy
Bourdin to construct filmic narratives staring women disguised under
synthetic wigs, dramatic makeup, and retro polyester attire. Infusing
the seductive language of film and advertising with a touch of
subversive conceptualism, the artists included in this edition of New
Photography explore the relationship between image and picture.
The exhibition is organized by Roxana Marcoci, Curator, Department of Photography.
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