With apologies for cross-postings… I'm writing to let you know
about the two exhibitions opening Tuesday, at SF Camerawork. Key
details are below and you can find more online, including info on
lectures by Rebecca Solnit, Ed Kashi, and Glenda & Jesse Drew, at
www.sfcamerawork.org.
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One year after going to war with Iraq,
SF CAMERAWORK PRESENTSS
Two exhibitions exploring the face of war
and the character of resistanceS
KILLER SHOTS: A Photographic Response to War
Curated by Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago
February 17-March 20, 2004
Opening Reception: Tuesday, February 17, 2004, 5-8 pm
Killer Shots: A Photographic Response to War begins with images from
the Vietnam War, often referred to as the first picture war, setting
the photographic yardstick for photographers who risk their lives
showing the atrocity of human violence. These photographs are
imbedded in our visual memory and, brought together, force us to
examine what we've learned about war and humankind over the past
thirty years.
Artists: Abbas, Eddie Adams, David Burnett, Larry Burrows, Horst
Faas, Lori Grinker, Jean Gaumy, Matt Harnett, David Leeson, Marta
Lopez, Alex Majoli, Steve McCurry, Don McCullin, Susan Meiselas, Joel
Meyerowitz, Jon Mills, James Nachtwey, Sebastiao Salgado, Larry
Towell, Nick Ut, Sal Veder, and Alex Webb.
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MOVING TARGETS: The Art of Resistance
Curated by Marnie Gillett and Chuck Mobley
February 17-March 20, 2004
Opening Reception: Tuesday, February 17, 2004, 5-8 pm
Starting with the foundation laid in Killer Shots, this companion
exhibition draws its inspiration from the strong protest movement
surrounding the US war in Iraq. The five Bay Area artists in this
exhibition take a measured look at the weighty causes and varied
consequences of war and offer an alternative view to traditional
photojournalistic interpretation.
Artists: Shingo Annen, Glenda Drew, Jesse Drew, Kenneth Hung, Ed
Kashi, and Claudia Leger.
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coming next:
POP_Remix*
Curated by Marisa S. Olson
May 11 - June 12, 2004
Opening Reception: Tuesday, May 11, 5-8pm
A contemporary, photo-based redux of Pop Art arguments about the
context of image-production, the work in this exhibition takes as its
marrow the material of moving image culture. Segments of popular
films, television programs, and screen-based video games are
deconstructed and repurposed as meditations on mainstream
image-making and its cultural import. Each project is at once
accessible-even fun!-by virtue of its relationship to pop culture,
while simultaneously revealing the deeper cumulative effects of our
relationship to its content. Ultimately, we are invited to consider
the impacts these popular lens-based genres have had upon the ways in
which we choose to look at the world.
Artists: Cory Arcangel, Anthony Discenza, Alex Galloway, Jennifer &
Kevin McCoy, Paul Pfeiffer
* This exhibition will be accompanied by an issue of Camerawork: A
Journal of Photographic Arts, featuring major essays by Philip
Sherburne, Mark Tribe, and Jose Luis de Vicente, among others.
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Marisa S. Olson
Associate Director
SF Camerawork
1246 Folsom Street
SF, CA 94103
Killer Shots/Moving Targets at Camerawork
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