Visual Exploration: WK6: INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF PHOTOGRAPHY

EXHIBITION

I have never heard of the ICP before researching for this project, this i think convinced me to go to New York as there is an exhibition of WEEGEE entire works on the basement level! Also other artists such as CHIEN CHI CHANG, GREG GIRAD and ANA SHTEYNSHLEYGER who have their work under the title of "PERSPECTIVES" focused on sharpening the awareness subjects from communities entering a new and unfamiliar realm of living else where. Chang's black and white trajectory series was created in the nineties where by photographing families that had migrated from China to America in order to earn a living. Girad's collection shows the US military's strange setting of residential areas around the world that are incredible eerie and indistinguishable from suburbs in America. The work of Shteynshleyger illustrates her life among the Orthodox Jewish community through portraits and landscapes over four years.

Chien-Chi Chang
hyperallergic.com

Chien-Chi Chang
icp.com

Chien-Chi Chang
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Greg Girard
greggirard.com

Anna Shteynshleyger
Shteynshleyger.com

It was amazing going to see the entire works of Weegee: Murder is my Business, who focuses on gang murders, horrific crashes and fires through his freelance photojournalism career in the 1930s of low culture. He worked at night using flash photography cause black and white gritty contrasted images contributing to his graphic forensic content, which coincided with the end of the depression, prohibition and the governmental crack down on organised crime.

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Weegee
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Also in the International Center of Photography was the display of MAGNUM CONTACT SHEETS holding work of Trent Parke, Robert Capa and Rene Burri. The final room was exhibiting the work of Greg Villet showing families of african descent.

9 March 2012

WK6: INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF PHOTOGRAPHY

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