Exhibitions New York: What Is A Photograph?

I can’t wait to see this show…

Remember if it were up to the dealers the photography world would be stuck in the 19th century forever. (Too much emphasis on selling antiquities and thus antiquated ideas). Try to remember it is not a lens and shutter that defines a photograph. It is now about the “ideas and concepts” behind the image and any artist should be able to embrace every tool of the trade to bring their vision to light.

There will always be those that “take” a photo and then there are those that “make” one. ( The latter is far more interesting in my opinion and where I live and think; See my new Light Projections and Infinities).

Is a scanner a type of camera? You bet it is. If there is a rule that defines what a photograph is today it is simply that there are no rules – only questions. Those that pose the most interesting questions and push the medium will succeed because change must happen. ( The type of work I am talking about can not be made with a Photoshop filter…) Embrace the changes, as this is the most exciting time for Photography I have seen in 25 years.

Matthew Brandt, Grays Lake, ID 7, 2013. © Matthew Brandt, courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York.

JANUARY 31–MAY 4, 2014

Organized by ICP Curator Carol Squiers, What Is a Photograph? will explore the intense creative experimentation in photography that has occurred since the 1970s. Conceptual art introduced photography into contemporary art making, using the medium in ways that challenged it artistically, intellectually, and technically and broadened the notion of what a photograph could be in art. A new generation of artists began an equally rigorous but more aesthetically adventurous analysis, which probed photography itself—from the role of light, color, composition, to materiality and the subject. What Is a Photograph? brings together these artists, who reinvented photography.

Artists

Matthew Brandt Marco Breuer Liz Deschenes Adam Fuss Owen Kydd Floris Neusüss Marlo Pascual

Sigmar Polke Eileen Quinlan Jon Rafman Gerhard Richter Mariah Robertson Alison Rossiter Lucas Samaras

Travess Smalley David Benjamin Sherry Kate Steciw Artie Vierkant James Welling Christopher Williams Letha Wilson

via ICP

Exhibitions New York: What is a Photograph at ICP