Pictures Found While Working + Pictures Found While Not Working
This summer I have been helping the MoCP take inventory of their collection. This means my days are spent going through the museum's archives (best job ever). I have discovered a lot of exciting work that I am either unfamiliar with or that I have seen and passed over without due consideration. Over the next few weeks I am going to post some of this work.
My favorite images so far are from a body of work by Barabara Crane called People of the North Portal (1970). I am familiar with Crane as a long time faculty member at SAIC and a photographer of Chicago architecture and street life, but I was not aware of these photographs.
To create them, Crane stood at the exit of the Museum of Science and Industry here in Chicago and photographed people as they walked out. As people either realize they are being photographed or remain unaware, fascinating narratives play out through frozen body gestures and facial expressions. Read/see more here or here.
There is also great work to be seen at the MCA. Howard Henry Chen just opened his 12x12 show right next to the Jeff Koons exhibit. It is sweet.
Howard Henry Chen - "Tusks No. 1, Suoi Tien Amusement Park, Ho Chi Minh City" from the series Multiple Entry Visa
My favorite images so far are from a body of work by Barabara Crane called People of the North Portal (1970). I am familiar with Crane as a long time faculty member at SAIC and a photographer of Chicago architecture and street life, but I was not aware of these photographs.
To create them, Crane stood at the exit of the Museum of Science and Industry here in Chicago and photographed people as they walked out. As people either realize they are being photographed or remain unaware, fascinating narratives play out through frozen body gestures and facial expressions. Read/see more here or here.
There is also great work to be seen at the MCA. Howard Henry Chen just opened his 12x12 show right next to the Jeff Koons exhibit. It is sweet.
Howard Henry Chen - "Tusks No. 1, Suoi Tien Amusement Park, Ho Chi Minh City" from the series Multiple Entry Visa
Labels: Barbara Crane, Howard Henry Chen, People of the North Portal
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