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Shoot - Making History
dal 11/6/2001 al 15/7/2001
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11/6/2001

Shoot - Making History

Gasworks Gallery, London

Ann-Marie LeQuesne has worked closely with Gasworks Gallery to produce Shoot, a project that explores the viewers' relationship to media imagery. Shoot investigates our interest in public and historical events and the role we play as spectators.


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Re-enactments of a photograph taken at the execution of the Emperor Maximilian in Mexico on June 19, 1867.

Ann-Marie LeQuesne has worked closely with Gasworks Gallery to produce Shoot, a project that explores the viewers' relationship to media imagery.
Shoot investigates our interest in public and historical events and the role we play as spectators.

Ann-Marie has re-constructed the photograph taken at the execution of the Emperor Maximilian, also the subject of several of Manet’s most famous paintings.
Participants at the final re-enactment, which took place at Tate Britain in April, were asked to replicate the positioning of the subjects in the original photograph (a cartes de visite-photographic calling card).
The resulting documentation will be exhibited at Gasworks Gallery alongside a copy of the original image. Participants in Shoot will be issued with a copy of their photograph, mirroring the wide distribution of cartes de visite in the 19th century.

In the Crimean War and the American Civil War spectators regularly took picnic baskets to the fields to watch the ongoing battle.
Photography enabled wider and much larger audiences, and to assist the public in this new way of experiencing events, early photographers often collaged spectators onto their images. For Shoot, LeQuesne will continue this practice, adding both spectators and participants.

Ann-Marie has worked on a range of projects that examine the social structures behind the taking of photographs - the occasions that precipitate photographs and the forms of interaction possible between the subject, photographer and viewer. Recent projects include the Annual Group Photograph, an ongoing work which has taken place at the Albert Hall, and the Millennium Dome.
Ann-Marie’s fourth Annual Group Photograph will take place at Battersea Power station this Spring and be exhibited at the Pump House Gallery May 4th - June 17th.

A catalogue, with an essay by Rachel Withers, will be published to coincide with the exhibition Shoot at Gasworks Gallery.

Ann-Marie will give a talk at the National Gallery on July 2 and will compare the documenting methods in Manet’s execution paintings with the photographs in Shoot. All welcome, phone Gasworks for further details.

Preview June 12, 6-9 pm

Gasworks Gallery is open Wednesday - Sunday 12-6pm

For further information or press images contact Louise Palmer or Fiona Boundy at Gasworks

Shoot is supported by London Arts, Michael Dyer Associates, and the Royal College of Art.

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