A New American Portrait
Monday, May 21st, 2007Yo, if this is your first time stopping by you should think about subscribing to my shit. It's the best on the web fo'rils.RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
I’m incredibly excited about A New American Portrait, opening June 21 at the Jen Bekman gallery. Perhaps my excitement affects my perception, but I have the sense that something historical is taking place with the hanging of this show, along the same lines of the 1967 New Documents show at the Modern that introduced Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and Gary Winogrand. Thinking about MoMA these days, it’s hardly the place where cutting-edge work would be presented as it is happening. It seems to me that no group of people better understand contemporary photography than the group of people involved in this show.
Jen and Joerg Colberg have co-curated it and it will feature work from Alec Soth, Brian Ulrich, Todd Hido, Christine Collins, Jen Davis, Ben Donaldson, Amy Elkins, Shen Wei and Peter Haakon-Thompson. If this isn’t a definitive show, I don’t know what is and should probably think about finding a new way to spend my time. What’s more certain though is that it’s worth a bus trip to New York to be at the opening.
Will there be a book? I certainly hope so.
Update: The date of the opening has been moved to Friday, June 22. Anyone interested in going up to New York City with me?
