Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The Carnegie Museum of Art in Oakland will launch a photography initiative and website next month that explores the life cycle of an image, including creation, transmission, consumption, storage, loss and re-emergence. The Hillman Photography Initiative's website, www.nowseethis.org, will go live April 29.
The initiative, which also will look at how technology affects images and the rapidly changing field of photography, will be managed by Divya Rao Heffley. It will have four components: "The Invisible Photograph," "The Sandbox: At Play With the Photobook," "This Picture" and "Orphaned Images."
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This sounds like a really interesting project. Photography isn't always something that I find most exciting, but I like the ideas behind these exhibits. I love the idea behind "The Invisible Photograph" because I find art restoration very cool. It sounds like it would be a lot of fun to learn about the history of the physical photograph. When I was in California over spring break, we went to the Getty Museum and they had a Jackson Pollack exhibit about one specific painting, that included photos from when it had been restored in the past and how the museum had to undo the damage of the old restoration job, which was so interesting to me. This exhibit involving the conservation of these specific photographs over time seems to appeal to a similar sort of interest.
I would definitely love to be able to see this initiative. Photography has always been interesting to me, mostly in terms of the actual techniques behind capturing a good image, but also how the role of photographs has changed with today's propensity for media. I'd also be really interested to see if the exhibit will include information about photo manipulation as well, especially seeing how easy it is these days for just about anyone to change a picture completely with the use of photoshop. Even fake photographs can hold a lot of power if the meaning is viewed as real.
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