GREGORY CREWDSON TALKS

Posted on 2009-03-09

Famed photographer Gregory Crewdson will present the inaugural discussion in a series sponsored by the Photography Society of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The artist’s talk is scheduled for 6 p.m. March 12 in Atkins Auditorium at the Museum. Crewdson’s work has been widely exhibited and reviewed. He makes large-scale photographs of elaborate and meticulously staged tableaux, which have been described as “micro-epics” that probe the dark corners of the psyche.

Working in the manner of a film director, he leads a production crew, which includes a director of photography, special effects and lighting teams, casting director and actors. He typically makes several exposures that he later digitally combines to produce the final image. “Crewdson is one of the most daring and inventive contemporary artists using photography,” said Keith F. Davis, Curator of Photography at the Nelson-Atkins. “His meticulously crafted works are immensely rich in both narrative and psychological terms. They prod us to rethink our ‘usual’ relationship to photographs as physical objects and as records of worldly fact. Crewdson is a genuinely important figure in today’s art world. He has an international reputation and has influenced an entire generation of younger photographic artists.”

Attendance to the program is free, but tickets can be obtained in advance online at www.nelson-atkins.org

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THE RESIDUAL LANDSCAPES

Posted on 2009-03-09

The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies is thrilled to unveil its new feature exhibition, Edward Burtynsky: The Residual Landscapes, showcasing 25 years of the photographer’s inspiring and thought-provoking large-scale photographs.
Featured opposite Nickel Tailings #30, Sudbury, Ontario, 1996.

Edward Burtynsky is one of Canada’s most respected and celebrated photographers. He’s made it his life’s work to document humanity’s impact on the planet. Burtynsky’s riveting images, as beautiful as they are disturbing, capture views of the earth altered by mankind. A mountain of tires, a river of fluorescent orange sludge from a nickel mine and a massive man-made canyon carved deep into the earth to reach its oil riches – these are just some of the many eye-opening images in this moving exhibition.

“These images are meant as metaphors to the dilemma of our modern existence; they search for a dialogue between attraction and repulsion, seduction and fear,” said Edward Burtynsky, photographer. “We are drawn by desire – a chance at good living, yet we are consciously or unconsciously aware that the world is suffering for our success. Our dependence on nature to provide the materials for our consumption and our concern for the health of our planet sets us into an uneasy contradiction. For me, these images function as reflecting pools of our times.”

Burtynsky’s remarkable photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes are in the collections of several major museums around the world including the National Gallery of Canada, the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

This exhibition runs until the 26th of April 2009

The Whyte Museum
111 Bear Street
Banff
Alberta
Canada

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CHRISTINA KRUSE – REISEBUCH 1-5

Posted on 2009-03-09

Steven Kasher Gallery is proud to present the first American exhibition of Christina Kruse. The exhibition launches the publication of Reisebuch 1-5, Kruse’s limited edition artist’s book, and will feature other significant recent work by Kruse including photographs, photo collages illuminated in watercolor and other media, and a series of photograms. Although Kruse is perhaps better known as one of European haute couture’s top fashion models, her work as an artist and photographer has been recognized for over a decade, shown by well-regarded galleries in Paris and Germany, and featured in Vogue, Interview, Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour, i-D and Mixte.

This exhibition runs until the 28th of March 2009

Steven Kasher Gallery
521 West 23 St. Second Floor
New York
NY
10011
USA

www.whyte.org

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