fall parlor room lineup

Please keep an eye out for the fall Parlor Room poster and subsequent email announcements for details about lecture time and location.

All Parlor Room lectures are open to the public, so please forward this to any and all who might be interested.

September 24: Sina Najafi

October 11  : Walead Beshty 

October 15: Moyra Davey

November 8: Jay Prosser

atget's surrealism

wiki:

Eugène Atget (February 12, 1857 – August 4, 1927) was a French photographer noted for his photographs documenting the architecture and street scenes of Paris.

Organ Grinder (1898)

An inspiration for the surrealists and other artists, his work gained wide attention only after his death....

...The emptiness of most of his streets and the sometimes blurred figures in those with people are partly due to his already antiquated technique, including extended exposure times which required that many of his images be made in the early morning hours before pedestrians and traffic appeared.

The mechanical vignetting often seen at some corners of his photographs is due to his having repositioned the lens relative to the plate on the camera—exploiting one of the features of bellows view cameras as a way to correct perspective and control the image. He often said, "I have done little justice to the Great City of Paris", as a comment on his career.

aura ish

sherrie levine

from the Met's website:
In 1981, Levine photographed reproductions of Depression-era photographs by Walker Evans, such as this famous portrait of Allie Mae Burroughs, the wife of an Alabama sharecropper. The series, entitled After Walker Evans, became a landmark of postmodernism, both praised and attacked as a feminist hijacking of patriarchal authority, a critique of the commodification of art, and an elegy on the death of modernism. Far from a high-concept cheap shot, Levine's works from this series tell the story of our perpetually dashed hopes to create meaning, the inability to recapture the past, and our own lost illusions.

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claudia angelmaier

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Oliver Laric's Versions (video version)

Holly Myrick

I am Holly Myrick. I'm interested in photographing empty spaces were people have been but are not present in the moment I'm capturing. I also enjoy shooting architecture in odd ways. I like to make simple and easily recognizable objects somewhat confusing and distorted. I also enjoy people at unexpected moments.

Samantha Selin

I am interested in looking at the tensions between the tangible and the abstract through the exploration of nostalgia and memory. A lot of what I do is through investigations of process, tactility, and movement. I photograph to understand the concrete aspects of my experiences in relation to the intangible traces of my memories. 

Kara Peters

I am interested in photography as a narrative. The creation/destruction of the content is very much a part of my process. By creating more provocative work I am demanding a response immediately confronting the direct content of the photo, allowing underlying themes to become visible.  The idea of the visible/invisible is something that intrigues me and is a part of my work.