What have the museum and gallery wall meant
for the understanding and experience of photographic art? This lecture considers some of the key
photographic exhibitions of the past and introduces the challenges of
contemporary exhibition practices.'
NOTES FROM LECTURE:
- Module about context!
- Thinking about it from the point of view of the photographer and writer
- Genre - Landscape, portrait etc.
- Institutions - Fashion, Art, etc.
- Format - wall, page, screen.
- These can overlap
- Thinking about how one photograph might be used in different contexts
- Rut Blees Luxemborg - used in exhibition, book cover, album cover
- Brassai - in journal and magazine
- Photos are used a number of different times, meaning could possibly change over time too
- When you see an image next to different images in a book - how does it change?
- Never a clear distinction between the contexts
- William Klein
- Image made for the page but we have seen it on the wall and so it has been recontextualised to fit the exhibition purpose
- Curated own show
- Extracts from films, show reel
- Early photo exhibition - 1858
- London photographic society
- Doesn't look like contemporary art space, looks more like artist studio.
- 'Salon hang' style not the way we would usually see images like this
- also showed stereoscopic photography (3D), man in corner, faded by exposure, probably has list of pieces of work numbered to look at while you can go around and then take home with you
- 1861 - Not purpose built for gallery, woodcut illustration
- 1917 - Steiglitz
- His gallery. He showed cubists etc. for the first time in America. Starting to look like what we would think of as a gallery today. Contemporary lights
- As well as gallery he had magazine 'Camera Work' - had to subscribe, he thought that the magazine was as important as the exhibition. If you keep it, it lasts longer
- Anthology called called camera work documenting all of the magazines
- 1929 - poster for massive exhibition that was shown in Japan and Europe
- Clusters of images, cabinets filled with publications and movie viewers
- USSR room - thinking photographically and graphically and architecturally
- Seemed very contemporary
- Film and photo shown in books
- 1946 - Edward Weston - serene calm exhibition showing small images at the MOMA after the war
- Before the war exhibitions were much more extravagant. Thinking about how we can show photography but after war it went back to a much smaller and calmer manner
- 1955 - 'Family of Man' Steichman exhibition.
- One picture should fold into the next. Didn't want you to dwell on images for too long but most of the photographers weren't happy about this. It was arranged with a route through so you didn't linger.
- Last two images - atomic bomb cloud and then an image of a meeting from the united nations.
- The last image after that was 2 children holding hands, walking into the distance.
- Arranged thematically
- Childhood, death etc.
- Warhol
- Got hold of FBI pamphlet somehow. Photos of images of the most wanted men that was a privately circulated document and he blew it up and made it very public. They wanted it to be taken down but he didn't
- Richard Avedon
- Works mostly for page of Harpers Baazar etc but recontextualised this for an exhibition
- Richard Hamilton perspective in the Tate soon!
- made for all sorts of purposes - gallery, book, album cover etc.
- Victor Burgin
- Floor replaced by photo simulation/print of itself for a path across the room
- entirely site specific
- path was black and white but you can't tell this because all of the images are black and white
- Georges Rouse
- started with sculpture but got interested in photography through having to photograph his sculptures
- Michael Fried
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