Today we begin our Annual August effort, Photographers on Photographers, which features a stellar group of photographers in conversation with each other. Don’t miss a day of insightful interviews and we are excited to begin with Mercedes Jelinek in conversation with Kris Graves. I first met Kris Graves while I was an undergrad at SUNY […]
Interviews
David Maisel: Proving Ground
David Maisel’s monograph Proving Ground (published by Radius Books and co-published with Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art) investigates Dugway Proving Ground, a U.S. Army facility established in 1943, located in the Utah desert, 85 miles from Salt Lake City. The term “Proving Ground” specifies an area of land designated for the military purposed to […]
Thesis Project: Tamrin Ingram
There is a poignant quietness and solitude to Tamrin Ingram’s work. When looking at her images I can feel the pressure of Louisianian heat on my skin, hear the rustling of the bugs around me, and feel the wetness of the humidity dripping down my back. Her work not only transports me physically but also […]
Thesis Project: Antonia Stoyanovich and Cassandra Klos
The American South and the American West occupy places of mythic proportions in our collective imagination. Our ideas of these places are laden with a complex set of preconceptions informed by their unique qualities and the tall tales we’ve been told about them. The artists presented here, Antonia Stoyanovich and Cassandra Klos, both explore and […]
Thesis Project: Hannah Altman
Hannah Altman’s work brings to mind collective identity and the intricate bonds we share within our chosen community. Her visual poetics bring to life photos that extend beyond what we might see in her images. Her sensitivity to light, gesture, and expression bring out the familial recollections she talks about in her artist statement and […]
Thesis Project: Phillipa Klaiber
In my mind, the place described in Phillipa Klaiber‘s Vorest hovers somewhere between the realms of truth and fantasy. Recontextualizing authentic historical documents alongside her own photographs, the artist blurs the line between past and present- what is and what was- as she explores her own relationship to this place as both insider and outsider. The resulting narrative […]