Posted on 19 August 2010. Tags: David M. Roth, Henry Wessel, New Topographics, Rena Bransten, SFMOMA
Making the quotidian look strange and familiar was Henry Wessel’s specialty. His New Topographics cohorts recorded the bald facts of our surroundings and elevated their impact through repetition. Wessel didn’t need to. His photos are self-contained stories.
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Posted on 14 August 2010. Tags: David M. Roth, SFMOMA Artists Gallery Fort Mason, Wondrous Strange
Before museums we had cabinets of curiosities: rooms that housed natural history, ethnographic artifacts and archeological remains. Twenty-one Bay Area artists explore those traditions.
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Posted on 05 August 2010. Tags: David M. Roth, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
Tired of big, banal theory-driven photos? A quiet counterinsurgency is gathering force. It’s composed of artists who are turning antiquated photographic methods to contemporary ends. Meet the antiquarian avant-garde.
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