*** Clear your schedules for May 17th people.
RABBITHOLE GALLERY PRESENTS:
REAL VS. ROLE:
THREE PHOTOGRAPHERS’ EXPLORATIONS IN PORTRAITURE
CURATED BY CLAIRE J. DONOGHUE
FEATURING WORKS BY
EMILIANO GRANADO, ANOUK KRUITHOF, JULIETA SANS
OPENING RECEPTION WITH ARTISTS: MAY 17
Exhibition on View: May 3 - May 30, 2012
If you’re in New York on May 17th and you don’t go to this, you’re a damn fool.
PDN has reached a new low. This is hilarious.
Reunion - Natalie, 2012
I want to give a bit of backstory on my next large endeavor for my personal work. While there is a lot of writing that will be going along with this project, this is just a sampling. I’m totally fascinated by the fallacy of social media, and how it makes us feel connected to lost friendships and people of the past. This past year was my 10 year high school reunion and I didn’t participate solely because I knew this project was in the works. I didn’t want to have any personal interaction until I started making these photographs. I’m going back and photographing as many people as I can from my graduating high school class, most of whom I haven’t seen since graduation. I’ve been granted access to their lives through the years through the internet, from myspace to facebook. Yet, with no personal interaction, it’s just a voyeuristic way of me feeling connected. I wanted to reconnect. Whether it was old best friends, boys who bullied me for being gay, or people who I roamed the halls with yet didn’t even know their names. That time is so influential in most peoples lives, however in a lot of cases, ceases to exist after graduation. This project has a very symbiotic relationship with that of Not Without My Father & Memento, as it’s dealing with the same time period in my life. This project, while a personal journey, is one I hope everyone will be able to reflect on.
p.s. - my self-portraits are back, and I couldn’t be happier about it. Also, this project is going to be very multi-dimensional with still life images, environments and audio.
more to come…
Yes. Fuck yes.
Wow, You Must Be So Excited! book mockup #1 flip-through
Would love thoughts on the order of the images and/or images that should be cut!
— Tom Drysdale, my photo professor
— Anouk Kruithof in an interview by Joerg M. Colberg
The final roll of film I shot before beginning college.
I think in photography, the values are reversed. It’s very difficult for a photograph to convey history because it’s only taken from one perspective. It’s always a diminishment of history, whereas with objects and ugly things, the photograph is just another object or ugly thing. It can really equal or elevate those everyday, ugly, quotidian things into a different status through the quality of the attention of the photographer. Things can be elevated into things that are truly moving and beautiful.”
— Tim Davis in an April 2008 interview
(Source: whitehotmagazine.com)
Two photographs made by Alec Soth, 4 years apart.
Left image (2002) from Sleeping by the Mississippi (2004)
Right image from NIAGARA (2006)
(Source: alecsoth.com)
Two photographs by Alec Soth, made 4 years apart
Left image from Sleeping by the Mississippi (2004)
Right image from The Last Days of W. (2008)
(Source: alecsoth.com)
