ANNIE LING – A FLOATING POPULATION

Posted on 2014-04-07

In A Floating Population, photographer Annie Ling uses her camera as an entry point to establish a deep connection with the people and spaces of Chinatown. Ling, who photographs for the New York Times, rejects the stereotypes and surface impressions that characterize so many images of the neighborhood. She spends time with those she photographs – immigrants and the elderly – both alone and with their families, photographing them with intimacy and complexity. MOCA presents four bodies of her work: “81 Bowery” (selections of which were published in the New York Times), “Shut-Ins”, “Tenements”, and “A Floating Population.

Exhibition runs through to April 19th, 2014

Museum of Chinese in America
215 Centre St
Chinatown & Little Italy
New York

www.mocanyc.org

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SARAH JONES

Posted on 2014-04-07

Over the years themes such as the analyst’s couch, the municipal rose garden as still life in-situ, the drawing studio and the singular female subject have been central to her concerns. Her photographs are often made on location and illuminated with carefully controlled lighting that allows the subject to both emerge from and recede into a darkened space. Through the use of analogue techniques Jones studies the correspondence between the skein of the film, the surface of the photographic print and the surface of her subjects. For Jones this attention to materiality brings to mind the act of mark making in drawing.

She has previously used the diptych as a formal device and direct reference to early stereographic photographs in order to present two perspectives of a single form. More recent diptychs consider the act of doubling and the alchemic nature of the photographic process by literally flipping an image. One becomes an imprint or reflection of the other recalling the Rorschach inkblot. In such an act of mirroring, Cabinet (II) (After Man Ray) (I) and _ picture a curved glass object that recalls Man Ray’s _Le Violon d’Ingres, (1924). Other works in the exhibition reflect on the photographic language of Florence Henri, Karl Blossfeldt and Eugene Atget.

Opposite – The Rose Gardens (Display) (VI), 2014

Exhibition runs through to April 19th, 2014

Maureen Paley
21 Herald Street
London
E2 6JT

www.maureenpaley.com

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PHIL MAXWELL – BRICK LANE

Posted on 2014-04-07

An exhibition of black and white photographs of Brick Lane in the East End of London in chronological sequence, telling the story of volatile social change on one of Britain’s most celebrated streets from 1982 until the present day.

This exhibition is accompanied by a beautifully-produced chunky paperback (with the same title) of more than three hundred dramatic black and white photographs of Brick Lane and its surrounding area.

“Phil Maxwell is the photographer of Brick Lane – no-one has taken more pictures here over the last thirty years than he. And now his astonishing body of work stands unparalleled in the canon of street photography, both in its range and in the quality of human observation that informs these eloquent images.”
– SpitalfieldsLife.com

Exhibition runs through to April 26th, 2014

Rich Mix
35-47 Bethnal Green Road
London
E1 6LA

www.richmix.org.uk

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