My wife's firm is the sponsor of a new "photography" exhibit at the International Center for Photography (ICP). It is called "Ecotopia" and focuses on environmental issues via images on a very broad and eclectic scale.
It opened a week ago and was reviewed in the NYT. But tonight was a private reception for the corporate sponsor - so I had a chance to attend with fewer folk and good booze and trays of fancy appetizers.
Here's the web link: http://www.icp.org/site/?c=dnJGKJNsFqG&b=2031117
The exhibit has is ups and downs, no surprise. Having read the review, I was curious to see the large (11x14?) platinum prints made of shots taken at a S.A. platinum strip mine - poignentedly noting that it takes about a ton of ore to get an ounce or so of platinum to make the prints.
A couple of disappointments were:
1) None of the side notes indicated what cameras were used, much less media (even if whether film or digi), No exposure or apeture data etc. Since some of the prints were HUGE and none were less than 5x7 this was very disappointing.
2) Although ICP has traditionally been a "print media" venue - they were very big on using this exhibit to "introduce" multi-media including moving image and audio.
Also, they "officially" declared 35mm movie film to be obsolete!
Yes, one exhibit was a short cinema of a group of tigers being "re-habbed" at a place on the west coast. The "liner notes" said that the shooter chose to use "obsolete" 35mm film media and equipment to "express" the endangered status of tigers in the wild.
One plus note - I briefly met a fellow there who is a student and was carrying a M6. He was shocked someone would recognize it and discuss film. He said he feels beleagured all day as a filmster in a sea of digishooters. I suggested he check out APUG and come amongst friends.
Maybe we should have some kind of "business" card we can pass along when we see film folks shooting? :confused:
It opened a week ago and was reviewed in the NYT. But tonight was a private reception for the corporate sponsor - so I had a chance to attend with fewer folk and good booze and trays of fancy appetizers.
Here's the web link: http://www.icp.org/site/?c=dnJGKJNsFqG&b=2031117
The exhibit has is ups and downs, no surprise. Having read the review, I was curious to see the large (11x14?) platinum prints made of shots taken at a S.A. platinum strip mine - poignentedly noting that it takes about a ton of ore to get an ounce or so of platinum to make the prints.
A couple of disappointments were:
1) None of the side notes indicated what cameras were used, much less media (even if whether film or digi), No exposure or apeture data etc. Since some of the prints were HUGE and none were less than 5x7 this was very disappointing.
2) Although ICP has traditionally been a "print media" venue - they were very big on using this exhibit to "introduce" multi-media including moving image and audio.
Also, they "officially" declared 35mm movie film to be obsolete!
Yes, one exhibit was a short cinema of a group of tigers being "re-habbed" at a place on the west coast. The "liner notes" said that the shooter chose to use "obsolete" 35mm film media and equipment to "express" the endangered status of tigers in the wild.
One plus note - I briefly met a fellow there who is a student and was carrying a M6. He was shocked someone would recognize it and discuss film. He said he feels beleagured all day as a filmster in a sea of digishooters. I suggested he check out APUG and come amongst friends.
Maybe we should have some kind of "business" card we can pass along when we see film folks shooting? :confused:
