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8/6/2006

Summer exhibitions

International Center of Photography ICP, New York

Atta Kim: On-Air

This exhibition will present a selection of recent works from the ON-AIR Project by the Korean contemporary artist Atta Kim (born 1956). For these large-scale, visually spectacular color photographs, Kim employed extended exposures—sometimes as long as eight hours—to explore fundamental questions of time and perception. Using such varied subjects as parliamentary sessions, soccer games, outdoor military exercises, and erotic unions, Kim suggests that it is possible for us to perceive the passage of time in radically different ways.


Tempo, Tempo! The Bauhaus Photomontages of Marianne Brandt

Marianne BrandtMarianne Brandt (1893-1983), a leader of the Bauhaus style, is best known as a Bauhaus designer and metal-worker. Much less well-known are the photomontages that constitute the critical complement to her metal works from the mid-1920s and early 1930s. It was in these photomontages that Brandt first focused her analytical gaze on contemporary society and politics, and, in particular, on the ominous and destructive aspects of modern technology so apparent in the First World War. Drawing on the vast array of visual material made available by the Weimar Republic’s burgeoning illustrated press, Brandt’s photomontages relied upon the technologies of modern visual culture to challenge pictorial conventions and imagine new roles for women.

This exhibition of approximately forty works, which will be the first full retrospective of Brandt’s photomontages, has been organized by the Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin, with Elizabeth Otto as guest curator.


Paris: Euge'ne Atget and Christopher Rauschenberg

This exhibition presents a survey of the George Eastman House’s exemplary holdings of the work of Euge'ne Atget (1857-1927) alongside a contemporary interpretation of the project by the artist Christopher Rauschenberg. Atget, known for his encyclopedic and comprehensive record of the French capital in transition at the turn of the last century, is today considered one of the seminal photographic modernists. Rauschenberg’s project is both an homage to Atget and an artistic study of Paris in its own right. While not attempting to replicate the exact angles and perspectives of Atget's photographs, Rauschenberg evokes their aesthetic and emotional tone.

The exhibition is curated by Alison Nordstrom, Curator of Photographs, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. It is the tenth in the series "New Histories of Photography," collaborations between ICP and George Eastman House made possible by the generous support of The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation. Additional funding for New Histories 10 was received from George N. Abraham, M.D.


Unknown Weegee

Our image of Weegee is that of the prototypical New York tabloid news photographer: tough, garrulous, and on the scene, ready to cover two murders in one night. But the inventive Jewish immigrant Arthur Fellig (1899-1968), who assumed the self-mocking nickname Weegee, was also one of the most original and creative photographers of the twentieth century. His images of the masses at Coney Island, the confrontation of wealth and poverty at the opening night at the opera, and the aftermath of brutal crime scenes are, by now, classics. But beyond the iconic images that have been so widely circulated, what do we know of Weegee the photographer—his history, his methods, his meaning? Drawing on ICP's unique archive of nearly 20,000 prints by this celebrated master, Unknown Weegee will present about 120 photographs that have never been made available to the public, as well as other significant documents and publications. These surprising and little-known materials will show Weegee to be a politically astute and witty social critic, and will attest to the seriousness and self-consciousness of his photographic endeavors.

Image: Marianne Brandt, Tempo-Tempo, Progress, Culture [Tempo-Tempo, Fortschritt, Kultur], 1927, (c) 2005 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

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