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Leo Hsu
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18 May 2008 |
 "Chisel", one of the four main exhibitions at the New York Photo
Festival, presents contemporary photography that “converses with
painters and sculptors”. "The Ubiquitous Image" shows work that is conceptual and sits squarely in the
art world, and there is no suggestion of a desire to document in any
traditional authored sense.
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Leo Hsu
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17 May 2008 |
 Various Photographs, the exhibition curated by Tim Barber, occupies the
smallest space at the New York Photo Festival, but contains the most
images. The show is, as Barber offers in his statement, "an absurdist
rant, a free-form poem, a run-on sentence, a splintered report on
recent histories." New Typologies, curated by Martin Parr, uses groups of pictures to make
an argument about how photographs can act as a conduit between
information and knowledge.
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Leo Hsu
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15 May 2008 |
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This evening at the NYPH, Daniel Power hosted "Book Soup", profiling the work of six photographers who have been published by powerHouse, many of them more than once. A short sample of each photographer's work was projected, after which the photographers took the stage to talk about their work.
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Leo Hsu
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14 May 2008 |
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 The New York Photo Festival sneak preview tonight drew a good crowd and offered a first glimpse at some of the main exhibits, even as other exhibits were still being hung before the festival's official opening on Thursday. Curators were in attendance along with a few hundred others.
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Leo Hsu
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12 May 2008 |
 New York Photo Festival is just a few days away and I'm looking forward to soaking in both the main shows and the satellite shows, seeing some old friends, and meeting our guest bloggers Andrew and Michael . Reading over Max Houghton's interviews with Kathy Ryan , Martin Parr and Lesley Martin, and Jon's conversation with the founders Frank Evers and Daniel Power, I'm starting to get a sense of the concepts guiding the curated shows, and I'm looking forward to experiencing the kinds of linkages between pictures that you can only get in an exhibition space. In the meantime, I'm thinking about what this means for documentary photography and photojournalism.
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