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Vital Signs: Place
June 2 through Sept. 30, 2007
Alexey Titarenko (Russian, b. 1962)
UNTITLED. From “City of Shadows” Series
George Eastman House Collection
Designed as a counterpart to Ansel Adams: Celebration of Genius, this exhibition, running from June 2 to September 30, will demonstrate the persistence and vitality of the landscape genre as it is understood today.
Vital Signs: Place builds on the success of the 2005 Eastman House exhibition Vital Signs, a biennial series of contemporary photography designed to emphasize the work of young and emerging artists from around the world. This year’s offering will consider depictions of place, particularly the urban landscape, and will include work by Americans Sam Sweezy (whose photographs feature the Panama Canal Zone), Joseph Tamargo (Valparaiso, Chile), Scott Davis (Los Angeles), Janelle Lynch (New York City), and Jeff Liao (Queens), as well as Russian Alexy Titarenko (St. Petersburg), and Australian Nathalie Latham (Beijing).
Visiting Artists!
Sunday, Sept. 30, 1:30 p.m.
The artists of Vital Signs: Place - Sam Sweezy, Janelle Lynch, Jeff Liao, Scott Davis, and Joseph Tamargo - will take part in a panel discussion on the closing day of the exhibition, at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 30. The event will be included with museum admission.
“The specificity of photography has linked it to the particularity of place from the beginning of the medium,” said Dr. Alison Nordström, Eastman House curator of photographs and curator of Vital Signs: Place. “From the ambitious and seminal Excursions Daguerriennes of 1840 to the most mundane of tourist snapshots, the definition, manifestation, and representation of the visual aspects of a particular site have come to feel like an obvious and intuitive reason for photography.”
Vital Signs: Place includes both digital and film-based work; color, black-and-white, and platinum prints; and a video installation. The exhibition is a complement to Ansel Adams: Celebration of Genius, Eastman House’s major historic survey of more than 150 photographs, currently on view.
“As Adams is ineluctably linked in our minds to the American West, the eight artists in Vital Signs: Place have chosen to concentrate on particular places, often over time, in order to establish their personal visions of one part of the world,” Nordström said. “Since many of these artists have themselves lived and worked all over the world, the particularity of the places they depict is often the result of global vision.”
Click here for more information about the exhibition Ansel Adams: Celebration of Genius and related programs.
