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Spring 2008 Exhibitions
3 April - 24 May 2008
Opening Reception for all exhibitions:
Thursday 3 April, 5 - 8 pmBaum Award Press Release:
Read text here / Download PDF here / View Images hereAll Exhibitions Press Release:
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Mike Brodie:
The 2008 Baum Award for Emerging
American Photographers
Photo credit: Mike Brodie
SF Camerawork is proud to announce the 2008 recipient of The Baum
Award for Emerging American Photographers. Through the generosity
of Glenn and April Bucksbaum of The Baum Foundation, this $10,000
cash grant honors a talented and innovative photographer.Mike Brodie, a 22-year old photographer currently living in Philadelphia,
documents the train-hopping youth of America who are, he says, "one of the
most important, overlooked, and temporary underground cultures of modern
times." His two current series of photographs are entitled The Rockaway
Summer and Boys & Girls of Modern Days Railways.For more information about this award and The Baum Foundation,
please visit: http://www.thebaumfoundation.org/.
Past is an image we form
in the presentFeaturing the work of Pablo Pijnappel,
Liz Steketee, and Melanie Willhide
Photo credit: Pablo Pijnappel
Photography has long shouldered the burden of memory and in some
conceptual practices entangled itself with a complicated relationship to
appropriation. The artists in Past is an image we form in the present exert
control over the perception of memory through their work in literal and
metaphorical ways. Each artist exploits the vernacular aesthetic and the
conceptual underpinnings of their manufactured images point toward a
certain historical revisionism that reveal dormant or desired histories.Curated by Chuck Mobley and Emma Tramposch
Jenny Vogel:
Your lips are no man's land but mine
Photo credit: Jenny Vogel
Artist Jenny Vogel repurposes appropriated imagery from personal
webcams and low-contrast surveillance cameras to create a pensive and
poetic take on distance and desire. Set to an abstract narrative of unrequited
love and composed primarily of low-resolution images, her video work
somehow comes to resemble the dark and moody quality of
early film, thereby dramatizing the romantic tone.
Past Exhibitions
View descriptions and selected photos from
exhibitions of the past few years here.
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