Curation, exhibition and audience
Johannes Rigal questions curation, exhibition and audience and gives
some insight into how Adrift was put together. Question for an Exhibition Our
exhibition Adrift will open on 9 October 2012. A photographic group exhibition raises
questions that have to be addressed by curatorial theory and put into practice. These
questions are diverse and manifold,...
Crazy Photography
Recently, I was browsing rather aimlessly and half-motivated at the
most through the books on display in a London museum. I was not quite sure what I was
looking for until I found it. A small new publication called Crazy Photography by Dianne
Routex. That photography could be “concerned”, “pure” or “art” is nothing new...
Transitions & Continuities – Thomas Ruff
Thomas Ruff currently seems to be everywhere. Not only is he majorly
featured and interviewed in the April 2012 issue of the British Journal of Photography but
he is also subject of a major retrospective at the Haus der Kunst in Munich. This exhibition
chronologically covers the making of certainly one of the most important German
photographers of...
André Kertész: Meudon 1928
In the history of photography and in photographic theory, there are a
few icons, a few images that are discussed in almost every book on photography that exists.
One such image is André Kertész’s Meudon, 1928. Apart from approaching this piece of work –
first published in 1945 in New York – from a descriptive...
And What Else Do We Know by Him? A Response to 0.2964285
As Michael has shown us, the process of editing and sequencing
photographic work is a process that’s at least as important to the actual shooting of
images. But his example of Robert Frank’s The Americans is interesting for another reason:
isn’t this the almost archetypical one-hit-wonder? Or put differently: what else do you know
by...
Difficulties and Successes
To present photography in an exhibition space is certainly not a
simple and easy task. It involves decisions made by the curator, wishes and hopes by the
artist, the availability of space and has to meet the viewer’s expectations. But the biggest
problems may arise when the curator, the exhibition space and the artist are...
Discovering / Uncovering the Magic
The thing is, famous photographers who are considered the “best
photographers of all time”, will always be surrounded by this magical mist, this
seemingly massive genius. There will always be the myth that their most famous shots – the
ones known from books and galleries – were images that were produced as a single frame.
The...
