tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374455702024-03-14T00:20:43.956-07:00Jane Fulton AltON LOVE, LIFE, and the CREATIVE PROCESSJane Fulton Althttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10812373404717608673noreply@blogger.comBlogger688125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37445570.post-51782868468731526552015-01-12T13:57:00.000-08:002015-01-12T13:57:22.925-08:00Notes on New Orleans<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As I take leave once again, I can’t help but reflect on my attachment to this city.</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She has seen me thru many poignant times. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Under her watch, I was witness to the human suffering and resilience of so many residents post Katrina. She accompanied me in the final weeks as I bid farewell to my dear sister and comforted me after my father passed away. Most recently she played host to my husband’s 70<sup>th</sup> birthday celebration.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">New Orleans calls me back, over and over.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She understands anguish and knows how to bask in celebration. </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Embracing all of life, she acknowledges its hardships while reveling in the exquisiteness of the present.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I am always learning here. Things unfold in this city in ways I could never have imagined, leaving me awe inspired.</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thank you to the amazing artists, musicians and creatives of this city, who keep pushing the envelope while opening new pathways for love and understanding; and to the chefs who, thru their incredible dedication and hard work, feed not only our bodies but our souls.</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div>
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Jane Fulton Althttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10812373404717608673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37445570.post-13494382517067272382013-12-01T10:08:00.000-08:002013-12-01T10:18:52.199-08:00Japan / part 4<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What I did not mention in this blog was that I was invited there to help celebrate a big birthday for a dear friend and Chicago chef, Rick Bayless. It was a surprise so I did not tell many people of my plans to travel there. The trip had a very strong food component.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Tokyo portion of the trip was very carefully crafted by Deann Bayless and c<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #444444; line-height: 20px;">hef, sommelier, journalist, restaurant consultant and</span> author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Food-Sake-Tokyo-Terroir-Guides/dp/189214574X">Food Sake Tokyo</a>, Karla Yukari Sakamoto, who accompanied us thru out the trip. She was FABULOUS in her knowledge, grace, and guiding abilities.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">THE ESSENCE OF THE TRIP...for me, was experienced in a ryokan (guest house) in Kyoto and at the final lunch at <b>Ginza Kyubey </b>in Tokyo (see earlier post of my visual journey thru <a href="http://janefultonalt.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-great-adventure-japan.html">Wabi Sabi</a> Japan).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>A Yakitori</b> dinner, a <b>Tempura</b> lunch, <b>Unagi</b> lunch, a <b>Tonkatsu</b> dinner, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Kaisek</b>i dinner</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"> (please purchase Yukari's book for more information, like what the 5 elements are of EVERY MEAL).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">The <b>Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market</b> <span style="font-weight: normal;">(<span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja" xml:lang="ja">東京都中央卸売市場</span> <i>Tōkyō-to Chūō Oroshiuri Shijō</i><span class="t_nihongo_help noprint"><sup style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Installing_Japanese_character_sets" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Help:Installing Japanese character sets"><span class="t_nihongo_icon" style="color: #0000ee; font: normal normal bold 80%/normal sans-serif; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.1em; padding-right: 0.1em; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">?</span></a></sup></span>)</span>, commonly known as the <b>Tsukiji Market</b> <span style="font-weight: normal;">(<span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja" xml:lang="ja">築地市場</span> <i>Tsukiji shijō</i><span class="t_nihongo_help noprint"><sup style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Installing_Japanese_character_sets" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Help:Installing Japanese character sets"><span class="t_nihongo_icon" style="color: #0000ee; font: normal normal bold 80%/normal sans-serif; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.1em; padding-right: 0.1em; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">?</span></a></sup></span>)</span>, is the biggest <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wholesale" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Wholesale">wholesale</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Fish">fish</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seafood" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Seafood">seafood</a> market in the world and also one of the largest wholesale food markets of any kind (most of text is from Wikipedia)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">The market handles more than 400 different types of seafood from cheap <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaweed" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Seaweed">seaweed</a> to the most expensive <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caviar" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Caviar">caviar</a>, and from tiny <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardine" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Sardine">sardines</a> to 300 kg <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuna" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Tuna">tuna</a> and controversial whale species.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukiji_fish_market#cite_note-3" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a></sup> Overall, more than 700,000 metric tons of seafood are handled every year at the three seafood markets in Tokyo, with a total value in excess of 600 billion yen (approximately 5.9 billion US dollars on November 24th, 2013). The number of registered employees as of 25 January 2010 varies from 60,000 to 65,000, including wholesalers, accountants, auctioneers, company officials, and distributors.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> Particularly impressive is the unloading of tons of frozen tuna. The auction houses (wholesalers known in Japanese as <i>oroshi gyōsha</i>) then estimate the value and prepare the incoming products for the auctions. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">The auctions usually end around 7:00 a.m. Afterward, the purchased fish is either loaded onto trucks to be shipped to the next destination or on small carts and moved to the many shops inside the market. There the shop owners cut and prepare the products for retail. In case of large fish, for example tuna and swordfish, cutting and preparation is elaborate. Frozen tuna and swordfish are often cut with large band saws, and fresh tuna is carved with extremely long knives (some well over a meter in length) called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maguro_b%C5%8Dch%C5%8D" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Maguro bōchō">oroshi-hōchō</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maguro_b%C5%8Dch%C5%8D" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Maguro bōchō">maguro-bōchō</a>, or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maguro_b%C5%8Dch%C5%8D" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Maguro bōchō">hanchō-hōchō</a>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">The Tsukiji fish market occupies valuable real estate close to the center of the city. Tokyo Governor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shintaro_Ishihara" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Shintaro Ishihara">Shintaro Ishihara</a> has repeatedly called for moving the market to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyosu" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Toyosu">Toyosu</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koto,_Tokyo" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Koto, Tokyo">Koto</a>,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukiji_fish_market#cite_note-12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[12]</a></sup> with construction of the new market to begin in 2013 for completion in 2014.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ajw_13-0" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukiji_fish_market#cite_note-ajw-13" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[13]</a></sup> The new location has been criticized for being heavily polluted and in need of cleanup.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukiji_fish_market#cite_note-14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[14]</a></sup> There are plans to retain a retail market, roughly a quarter of the current operation, in Tsukiji.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ajw_13-1" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukiji_fish_market#cite_note-ajw-13" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0645ad;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; white-space: nowrap;">13</span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">]</span></a></sup></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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Jane Fulton Althttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10812373404717608673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37445570.post-31361442229546844962013-11-29T05:20:00.000-08:002013-11-29T05:22:59.800-08:00Contemporary Japan / Tokyo / Part 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Jane Fulton Althttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10812373404717608673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37445570.post-2670614997964339002013-11-25T16:08:00.000-08:002013-12-05T00:53:23.759-08:00The Great Adventure / Japan Part 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Having just returned from a great adventure, I decided that this blog would be a great place to share some of the inspiration that I received from my latest trip to Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan. I am short on time but keep thinking about all the amazing experiences I had so will try to share....<br />
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Not sure if you are familiar with term Wabi Sabi, but there is a wonderful book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wabi-Sabi-Artists-Designers-Poets-Philosophers/dp/0981484603">Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers</a> that you can find on Amazon.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Japanese view of life embraced a simple aesthetic<br />that grew stronger as inessentials were eliminated<br />and trimmed away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">-architect <span style="font-family: Arial;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial Rounded MT Bold;">Tadao Ando</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">"Pared down to its barest essence, wabi-sabi is the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection and profundity in nature, of accepting the natural cycle of growth, decay, and death. It's simple, slow, and uncluttered-and it reveres authenticity above all. Wabi-sabi is flea markets, not warehouse stores; aged wood, not Pergo; rice paper, not glass. It celebrates cracks and crevices and all the other marks that time, weather, and loving use leave behind. It reminds us that we are all but transient beings on this planet-that our bodies as well as the material world around us are in the process of returning to the dust from which we came. Through wabi-sabi, we learn to embrace liver spots, rust, and frayed edges, and the march of time they represent."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Here are a few visuals that I found really inspiring. Not sure how they will be incorporated into my work...will need to wait and see.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #808284; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">Join award-winning, fine art photographer Jane Fulton Alt as she discusses her recently published book, <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Burn</em>. This series of arresting photographs, begun in 2007, captures the beauty, violence and regenerative power of controlled prairie burns — “the ephemeral moment when life and death are not opposed, but are harmonized as a single process to be embraced as a whole.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I am still thinking about the work I reviewed. I was so impressed with the portfolios and the presentations, and would like to share some of the exciting work that is being produced at <a href="http://www.chiarts.org/">The Chicago High School for the Arts</a>. Their teacher is Whitney Bradshaw, a very talented Chicago photographer and former curator of the LaSalle Bank photographic collection.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">By documenting these spaces, I am capturing the beauty of these decaying structures and embedding them into this city’s grand history before they have completely diminished. My photos are an ode to their work and the city’s bygone public buildings and workplaces that have seemingly gone unnoticed over the years."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Incondite</b> captures incidental abstraction of otherwise representational subjects and presents the image out of context in order to ask if something that is broken can be accepted as an aesthetic whole.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Parhelions</b> warps perception in a series of simple light experiments with reflection and refraction. Whereas photography is typically an indexical medium, Parhelionsaims to represent nothing but the image itself. So what happens to work that does not adhere to the index?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Photography, in that indexicality, has created a plethora of contemporary <b>Artifacts. </b>A photograph captures a moment in time, and unlike our minds and bodies, a photo will typically not erode and cease to exist (especially in the case of digital photography and the internet). Artifacts is subjecting photos to the same erosion the memories they represent undergo while leaving their "labels" intact. When the image is entirely or partially deteriorated, how do we make sense of the "label" in relation to the visual information/lack thereof?"</span><br />
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Jane Fulton Althttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10812373404717608673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37445570.post-32628429392923260612013-09-30T12:25:00.002-07:002013-09-30T12:25:52.591-07:00Book Launch<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I am happy to announce that I will be having an exhibition at the Griffin Museum of Photography opening Thursday, October 3rd. There will be an artist talk on Thursday, October 10th at 6:15pm followed by an opening reception and book signing from 7-8:30 pm. If you live in the area, please stop by to say hello.<br />
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Griffin Museum of Photography<br />
Atelier Gallery<br />
67 Shore Road<br />
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Jane Fulton Althttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10812373404717608673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37445570.post-85737704840210106012013-09-16T14:42:00.001-07:002013-09-16T14:44:00.983-07:00between fire/smoke<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/74571337" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <a href="http://vimeo.com/74571337">between fire/smoke</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user7344714">Jane Fulton Alt</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The limited edition artist’s book is hardcover, bound in light grey (“smoke”) Iris book cloth with silkscreened titling. The structure incorporates left and right covers with a magnet closure which, when opened, situate the text block as the center panel within a triptych of white space (Canson Ingres end sheets). The opening portion of the text block includes 4 sections (alternating between single and double-page construction) sewn to an exposed internal spine with a modified continuous pamphlet stitch. (Single-page sections are archival pigment prints on Hahnemühle photo rag; double-page sections are archival pigment prints on Niyodo Japanese paper). The attached back section of the book is an adhesive binding mounted on an internal “frame” constructed of laminated 4 and 8 ply archival Rising White mat covered with Niyodo Japanese paper. Unfolding left and right are, first, two three-panel archival pigment prints on Hahnemühle photo rag, followed by a series of four text and image single-page archival pigment prints on Niyodo Japanese paper. The final unfolding reveals a unique, mixed media encaustic mounted (on black Stonehenge) within the internal frame. The book is housed in a slip-case constructed of an archival pigment print on pearl gray Murillo by Fabriano.</span></div>
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Jane Fulton Althttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10812373404717608673noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37445570.post-33582900656772750992013-09-09T08:51:00.000-07:002013-09-09T08:51:28.586-07:00Chicago's Filter Photo Festival<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Chicago is anticipating a whirlwind of photographic events... If you haven't checked out the festival yet, click <a href="http://www.filterfestival.com/?utm_source=Free+Workshops&utm_campaign=Open+registration&utm_medium=email">HERE</a> to find out more. <a href="http://filterphoto.tumblr.com/">Image 37</a> is also a place where you can read more in depth interviews of some of the speakers and portfolio reviewers. I encourage you to check out the multitude of riches that await Chicago photographers.<br />
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Thank you to Sarah Hadley, the festival's Executive Director and visionary extraordinaire, James Pepper Kelly, Erin Hoyt, Maggie Pfaff, Charlotte Woolf and Tanner Young, all of whom have labored tirelessly AND enthusiastically to create a treasure trove of photographic inspiration for our community.<br />
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Jane Fulton Althttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10812373404717608673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37445570.post-27937698919190093032013-09-03T10:55:00.000-07:002013-09-03T10:55:20.419-07:00American Photo Magazine / Fall 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Jane Fulton Althttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10812373404717608673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37445570.post-75362641825035457542013-08-02T08:58:00.001-07:002013-09-03T10:13:25.432-07:00The Books<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I have been very busy the past 10 months working on 2 books. It has been incredibly consuming and wonderful. So many people were involved with the evolution of both books...and the phrase "it takes a village" never felt more true. </div>
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Jane Fulton Althttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10812373404717608673noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37445570.post-55705068351008070062013-05-28T09:11:00.001-07:002013-05-29T14:15:41.180-07:00Portrait of an Art Critic ~ Michael Weinstein<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Every Chicago photographer is familiar with Michael Weinstein, the photo critic for the NewCity weekly. He is one of the city's treasures...always present at art openings, lending a critical eye to the work and always generous with his insights and time. Michael has an uncanny ability to contextualize work for an artist way before the artist has articulated it for themselves. He sees deeply. In <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">a time of diminishing resources, when there are <a href="http://galleristny.com/2013/05/there-are-now-less-than-10-full-time-art-critics-in-the-u-s/">fewer and fewer critics</a>,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);"> Chicago is very lucky to have Michael in our midst!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">JFA: What is your concept of the role of an art critic?<br /><br />My practice as an art critic is what the Italian philosopher of the first half of the twentieth century, Benedetto Croce, called "immanent criticism." By that he meant that the critic should not come to a work or body of work with a set of standards or values that would then be applied to judge the work, but, instead, should seek to get inside the work and re-live it as the artist intended it to be experienced, if at all possible. Having followed that procedure to the best of his or her ability, the critic would then seek to express the experience of that work in words. The way I put it is that the work is a gift given to the viewer from the artist, and I want to honor that gift by experiencing it as much as possible as the artist wants me to appreciate it. I would not have any interest in art if it did not provide me with access to the vision of another person, not my own vision or a vision that I personally prefer. Immanent criticism allows one to grow, and my reviews are meant to help readers to grow and to provide a bridge that the readers can cross to the work so that they can experience it for themselves.<br /><br />Immanent criticism stands for appreciation and against "gatekeeping," the personal preferences of the critic, judgments based on pre-ordained theories, the attempt to push one kind of art at the expense of others, trendiness, making art subserve political or moral positions, criticism as an excuse for the critic to express his or her own ideas about this or that, and helping out friends at the expense of other artists. All of those have no interest for me; I am in front of the work so that I can receive an infusion of visual intelligence. The great photography theorist Rudolf Arnheim said that photography embodies visual "form at a primary level," and is an independent object of intelligence, that is, visual intelligence (which is not my strong suit). I am grateful to photographers, who have visual intelligence, for expanding my experience. To repeat, I would not want to be a critic on any other terms. I do not favor one genre over another, one technique over another, one form of representation over another in my reviewing - I take each on its own terms. Certainly, I have my own personal preferences, but what possible good could it do for readers or artists if I paraded my personal preferences in print? After all, they are simply personal preferences and everyone has personal preferences; mine have no higher standing than anyone else's. What I can do is to use my accumulating knowledge of photography to gain access to a work and then dwell within it as intensely as I can.<br /><br />JFA : When did you first know you were going to become an art critic?<br /><br />In 1989 I began a sabbatical, which meant that I was not teaching in my specialty, which is/was political philosophy. At that time I felt that I had accomplished everything I had set out to do in philosophy, which was to figure out and put into writing and have published a philosophy of life that was true to the way I was living. I was at what I call a "zero point" at which "everything is possible and nothing is necessary" with "nowhere to go and anything to do." So, what to do? I hit upon the idea of learning about something that was mildly distasteful to me just to see what would happen - and I chose photography. So, through the summer and fall of 1989, I took pictures, read about photography, and visited galleries. I read an essay by Edward Weston in which he said that he kept a journal of every photographic encounter that he had, and I decided to do the same. One day in February, 1990 I was sitting in the old Houk Gallery in River North writing my journal after viewing an exhibit by Alexandr Rodchenko, and when I read it over I realized that I had written a review. I decided to walk it over to NewCity, my favorite newspaper at that time and now, and met the editor and owner, Brian Hieggelke, who was stationed right in the front room. He looked over my review, said he would publish it, and offered to let me write reviews for NewCity every issue. I've been doing so ever since with a few absences due to illness. My relationship with NewCity has been a highlight of my life; without NewCity, I would never have become a photography critic. That's Chicago - a place where you don't have to be in a clique and don't have to have connections to strike off in a new direction and get encouragement.<br /><br />JFA: What were the experiences and influences that led to your being an art critic?<br /><br />As I just explained, there were no conscious influences that led me to become an art critic. Leaving out my psycho-history, through which I have made sense of what happened in retrospect (but that again is personal), the big influence was philosophy. I had read all of Croce's major works before I made my photography experiment, so it wasn't difficult for me to see that immanent criticism was the way that I would go.<br /><br />JFA: What have been the more challenging aspects of being an art critic?<br /><br />There have been no challenging aspects of being an art critic from the get-go until now. To me, it's pure enjoyment. What's not to enjoy about receiving and appreciating gifts from people with visual intelligence, and then putting the experience I have into words? I have the freedom to engage the work on its own terms - it's always new and exciting. That's why I'm into my twenty-fourth year of doing it.<br /><br />JFA: Can you identify any shifts in your perspective as an art critic over the years?<br /><br />My perspective as an art critic has not changed a bit. Why should it? Immanent criticism always remains the same; it shifts on its own accord from one work and one genre to the next, always open to fresh developments and artists, always alert to the nuances in new manifestations of an extant genre and an established artist.<br /><br />JFA: How has being an art critic influenced your own photography?<br /><br />In order to get into taking pictures in 1989, I chose the simplest photographic problem that I could think of - the recording of a two-dimensional still subject in daylight. Aaron Siskind's wall abstractions were crucial for me in showing me how that simple problem could be worked on to get intense (at least for me) results. It led me to graffiti, distressed sides of railroad cars, peeling posters, and so on. I won't claim to be an accomplished photographer in the slightest, but I can say that shooting flat subjects in open-air seclusion has led me to powerful zenlike experiences in which vision narrows to what is in the view finder and one's consciousness is consumed by it. At times the subject seems to become animated and to "dance." It's a "natural high," for sure.<br /><br />JFA : How would you characterize the current Chicago photographic art scene?<br /><br />I have been a great lover of the Chicago photographic art scene through all the years I've been part of it. It has always been vibrant. Grassroots galleries continue to pop up, there are always commercial galleries showing a variety of work from local photographers and from the four corners of the earth, there are big and little museums, galleries in businesses, galleries in community centers, university and college galleries - you name it. There are great people to meet if you go to openings. There is that welcoming and open Chicago spirit. There are independent centers of creation rather than a single establishment. When it comes to the Chicago photographic art scene, it's "sweet home Chicago." </span><br />
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"The privilege of a life time is becoming more of who you are."</div>
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This quote guides the focus of a photographic critique group that I began 5 years ago....</div>
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I envisioned the group as a way of providing a forum for sharing work with the goal of helping each photographer further refine their personal vision... Once the work is fully realized, suggestions are offered up on how to send it out into the world. </div>
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I am happy to announce that the group will be have an exhibition on May 17th at the <a href="http://bridgeportart.com/portfolio/multiple-exposures-exhibition/#.UYEtv-D_Qg8">Bridgeport Art Center</a>. The artists included in the show are Ilze Arajs, <a href="http://www.nelsonarmour.com/">Nelson Armour</a>, <a href="http://www.susanannable.com/">Susan Annable</a>, <a href="http://fox-art-photo.com/">Art Fox</a>, <a href="http://www.alanleder.com/">Alan Leder</a>, <a href="http://www.janetmesicmackie.com/">Janet Mesic - Mackie</a>, <a href="http://www.yvettemeltzer.com/">Yvette Meltzer</a>, <a href="http://mrafferty.com/">Mary Rafferty</a>, Neil Spinner and <a href="http://www.jessicatampas.com/">Jessica Tampas</a> and yours truly.</div>
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The exhibit is going to be very exciting. The show focuses on nature and humanity. The work spans <span class="Apple-style-span">psychological renderings of complete strangers, roller derby life, discarded dolls, in addition to </span><span class="Apple-style-span">abstractions from nature and architecture. </span> This compelling exhibition will be shown in the beautiful exhibition space at the Bridgeport Art Center.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://ilzearajs.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Ilze Arajs</span></a> ~ <i>Holding fast in ebb and flow</i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jane Fulton Alt ~<i> The Burn</i></span></td></tr>
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Jane Fulton Althttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10812373404717608673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37445570.post-89062651930926539812013-04-23T11:47:00.003-07:002013-04-23T11:47:49.595-07:00on Balance<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Jane Fulton Althttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10812373404717608673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37445570.post-71806763521794784542013-04-11T09:03:00.002-07:002013-04-11T09:03:53.444-07:00Guggenheim Fellows 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">Here are other photographers...<br /><br />Photography<br /><br />Scott Conarroe<br />Bruce Gilden<br />Sharon Harper<br />Michael Kolster<br />Deana Lawson<br />Deborah Luster<br />Christian Patterson<br />Gary Schneider<br />Mike Sinclair<br />Alec Soth<br />Valerio Spada </span></div>
Jane Fulton Althttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10812373404717608673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37445570.post-54841637852938677802013-04-01T16:12:00.002-07:002013-04-01T16:12:10.737-07:00Deborah Luster ~ Tooth for an Eye<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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One of the many pleasures of New Orleans is the <a href="http://www.ogdenmuseum.org/">Ogden Museum of Southern Art.</a> The photography curator and artist in his own right , <a href="http://www.americanbeautysouth.com/art_mccabe.htm">Richard McCabe</a>, has produced some stunning shows in the last few years. Most recently is the <i>Tooth for an Eye : A Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish</i> by Deborah Luster. The exhibit took my breath away in its depth and breadth of handling the difficult and painful issue of violence in our cities. This is very important work and incredibly well done. </div>
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Gun violence is a subject that I once entertained exploring but did not have the stomach for it. As an alternative I decided to start a blog to document daily shootings <a href="http://mybackyardbearingwitness.blogspot.com/2010/06/june-1-2010-611-am.html">"In My Backyard</a>." After two days I had to stop as it was too disturbing to start my day knowing who died and where the most recent act of violence occurred. I am deeply grateful to Deborah for creating this body of work that so eloquently discusses a very dark side of the human condition.</div>
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<i>"TOOTH FOR AN EYE:A CHOROGRAPHY OF VIOLENCE IN ORLEANS PARISH</i> is a project that attempts to take a very close look at something that no longer exists - an invisible population - in the only way in which one can approach such things, obliquely and through reference. The result is a photographic archive documenting contemporary and historical homicide sites in the city of New Orleans and is as well, an exploration of the empty, dizzying space at the core of violence."</div>
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"Chorogrpahy is a form of geography that describes the inherent attributes of a place. These attributes may be physical, sociological, conceptual, metaphysical, or sensory. Tooth for an Eye not only documents sites where violence has occurred, it also finds itself documenting the city's physical loss as her unique material culture crumbles and transforms following generations of political failure. Many buildings that served as backgrounds for violent death have disappeared since they were photographed for this project."</div>
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These portholes have color video, one for family and one for friends...underlining the fact that many lives are at stake here, not just those of the victims or the perpetrator.<br />
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You can check <a href="http://deborahluster.com/">Deborah's website</a> to see where else the work has been exhibited.<br />
Deborah's book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tooth-Eye-Deborah-Luster/dp/1931885966">Tooth for an Eye</a>, is available on Amazon.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 36px;"><b>Mardi Gras Indians</b> are African-American <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Carnival">Carnival</a> revelers in <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans,_Louisiana" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="New Orleans, Louisiana">New Orleans, Louisiana</a>, who dress up for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_Mardi_Gras" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="New Orleans Mardi Gras">Mardi Gras</a> and other special occasions in suits influenced by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Native Americans in the United States">Native American</a> ceremonial apparel.</span><br />
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I always try to plan for the expected...because it usually happens. This morning I hoped to make a dent into creating the unique encaustics that will be encased in the limited edition, artist made book,</div>
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I was working away and the heat gun began to smoke and the coils on the inside turned an angry red...pretty scary. The studio smells like a burn but happily, I unplugged everything and found myself with time to update the blog.</div>
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I can hardly believe it is almost spring. The sun just came out after 4 days of grey, snowy, wintery days and it feels wonderful. One thing I love about living in Chicago is that nothing lasts forever, the seasons are in constant flux which keeps things interesting. </div>
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I have been spending the last 2-3 months preparing files for my upcoming book, The Burn. It will be published by <a href="http://www.kehrerverlag.com/">Kehrer Verlag</a> is will be released this coming fall. After great struggle, I finally decided to write the book essay with the help of many eyes and ears. It was a true collaboration.<br />
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Natasha Egan of the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago helped me to sequence the work. Her first question was ..."what would you like the first and last photograph to be?"<br />
Everything else fell into place after that. It was an amazing process to see how her keen eye could sort thru 60 some photographs and restore order and grace to the work.<br />
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Walker Blackwell of <a href="http://latitudechicago.org/">Latitude</a> ran some proof prints for me. Once the final design decisions are made, he will make another set to send to the publisher for color corrections. I turned all the proofs and text over to Renata Graw and Jeremiah Chiu of <a href="http://weareplural.com/">Plural</a>, a design firm in Chicago. I can't wait to see what they come up with!<br />
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And now I am focusing on a very exciting new venture, creating a limited edition handmade artist book with interdisciplinary book and paper artist, <a href="http://www.teresapankratz.com/">Teresa Pankratz</a>. Teresa has created an amazing structure and design for this book, which is really more like an art object. It is pure poetry.<br />
I am really thrilled with being able to make / create this with her and look forward to the actually assembly of the book. The unveiling will be this coming May 17th...stay tuned.<br />
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Jane Fulton Althttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10812373404717608673noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37445570.post-73107836099698099942013-02-20T17:58:00.003-08:002013-02-20T17:59:10.204-08:00Chris Jordan ~ Midway ~ a love story for our time from the heart of the Pacific<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/25563376?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <a href="http://vimeo.com/25563376">MIDWAY : trailer : a film by Chris Jordan</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/midway">Midway</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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......Across an Ocean of Grief</div>
Jane Fulton Althttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10812373404717608673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37445570.post-84295376404956470572013-02-17T12:52:00.002-08:002013-02-17T12:53:44.005-08:00On Being "Original"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">..."newness" or originality are often matters of subtle degree. The new doesn't have to be an epoch-shifting breakthrough. Just as we all have different fingerprints and handwriting, we all have a potential for some increment of originality. I am always on the lookout for a spark of necessity — a feeling that this particular artist had no choice but to make this particular artwork this particular way. That is the only way authenticity or even originality can start to emerge.” Roberta Smith 9/28/08</span></div>
Jane Fulton Althttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10812373404717608673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37445570.post-26928092278527524842013-02-11T13:48:00.001-08:002013-02-11T13:48:57.701-08:00Ten Thousand Ripples<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is such an inspired project and it is so thrilling to be taking place in the Chicago area.</div>
Jane Fulton Althttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10812373404717608673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37445570.post-831449802705902282013-01-26T11:41:00.002-08:002013-01-26T11:43:17.145-08:00Gregory Crewdson : Brief Encounters<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It is not often that one has the opportunity to see the process of an artist's practice. A new documentary that was just released on Gregory Crewdson offers the viewer insight into what drives Crewdson to construct elaborate sets for the one moment of narrative. It is a stunning documentary and not be be missed.<br />
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I love the fact that the film follows Crewdson over several years and shows the influences on his art from his childhood into the present day. His father took him to a Diane Arbus show in NYC when he was 10 years old. Exhibitions in NYC of Cindy Sherman and Barbara Kruger were important in forming his work while he attended graduate school at Yale. His father was a psychoanalyst and had an office in the basement of their home. Crewdson grew up knowing there were "secrets" contained in the office, not unlike the "secrets" contained in the orchestrated images he constructs.<br />
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Beneath the Roses, a stunning body of work, taking 8 years to complete. I think he may have started it after a divorce (they did not go into this much in the documentary). I can't help but wonder<br />
how much of the longing and sense of disconnect that permeates his images over those 8 years was an outgrowth of his own pain...<br />
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The film is playing at the Gene Siskel Center in Chicago this weekend. If you don't live in the city,<a href="http://www.gregorycrewdsonmovie.com/"> look for it playing near you.</a></div>
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