"The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography" Exhibition
Aperture Gallery
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Aperture Gallery presents The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, curated by Lyle Rexer. From the beginning, abstraction has been intrinsic to photography, and its persistent popularity reveals much about the medium. The Edge of Vision showcases the work of nineteen contemporary photographers who base their practice in some form of abstraction. Rexer defines abstraction as "a departure from or the eliding of an immediately apprehensible subject." Within this broad definition, a host of approaches explore aspects of the photographic experience, including the chemistry of traditional photography, the mediation of lenses, the direct capture of light without a camera, temporal extensions, digital sampling of found images, radical cropping, and various deliberate destabilizations of photographic reference.
[Image: Richard Caldicott "Untitled" Ilfochrome]
Media
Schedule
from May 15, 2009 to July 16, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-05-16 from 19:00 to 22:00
Artist(s)
Bill Armstrong, Carel Balth, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Ellen Carey, Roland Fischer, Michael Flomen, Manuel Geerinck, Shirine Gill, Barbara Kasten, Seth Lambert, Charles Lindsay, Edward Mapplethorpe, Chris McCaw, Roger Newton, Jack Sal, Penelope Umbrico, Randy West, Silvio Wolf, Ilan Wolff, Richard Caldicott et al.