PHOTOVILLE: The Indie PhotoBook Library Exhibition by Larissa Leclair and Darius Himes

offSET, Lacey Terrell

East Greenland

Qaammaqqivaar, Verena Bruening

Qaammaqqivaar, Verena Bruening

 Ohio, Alec Soth and Brad Zellar

My Brother’s War, Jessica Hines

“A Survey of Documentary Styles in Early 21st Century Photobooks”
 Curated by Larissa Leclair and Darius Himes

The Indie Photobook Library’s seminal traveling exhibition, curated by Larissa Leclair and Darius Himes, arrives in New York, after stops in San Francisco and DC. “A Survey of Documentary Styles in early 21st century Photobooks” draws from the iPL collection and features 70 photobooks, along with a selection of photographs from the books. The exhibition looks at the “documentary tradition” through the lens of a 21st century, global photographic community in which the lines between journalism, art and the long-term documentary project have blurred, morphed and continue to feed off of each other.

The books selected for this exhibition present a range of subject matter, each coupled with a particular visual language drawn from a pool of diversity. There are books that speak a more traditional documentary language, while there are those that explicitly critique that very same tradition; there are diaristic books and titles that overlay a typological structure; other books rely primarily on found and vernacular imagery; and there are many books that borrow heavily from an art-photography storehouse. The goal of this exhibition is to survey the field before us and to foreground questions of authorship, voice, style and content.

September 19-29, 2013

The Indie Photobook Library @ PHOTOVILLE
Brooklyn Bridge Park, The Uplands of Pier 5, New York
Look for the IPL exhibition in one of the 'Containers'

Larissa Leclair will be there Saturday, September 21 from 2-5PM

Come by and say hi....

Buy the Exhibition Catalog here

PHOTOVILLE: Pete Brook's Depository of Unwanted Photographs (TDOUP)

The Depository Of Unwanted Photographs 

Conceived by Pete Brook | Produced by United Photo Industries

The question “What is your best photo?” is not an unusual one. When asked to pick out a single image they absolutely treasure, people generally don’t hesitate. A snap of their children, a Polaroid of their parents, a formal pose from precious life event, or perhaps even a photograph with the prescribed artistic balance of composition, contrast and exposure; or dictated by emotional memory or technical concerns.

But what about the question, “What is your worst photo?” To put it another way, what photograph of yours is obsolete, worthless, old news or just plain bad? Which single photograph of yours would you like to officially state on the record as unwanted?

Photoville invites you to submit one of your photos to The Depository of Unwanted Photographs, a crowdsourced archive of images and stories. During Photoville, we will welcome walk-in submissions at The Depository Of Unwanted Photographs container which will be equipped with a scanner and computer to download, copy and catalogue your printed photographs and digital files. During Photoville, submissions will be rotated in and out of display for public viewing. When the festival ends, the Photoville team will compile the images and create a reference book of “Unwanted Photographs”.

DETAILS HERE!

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Pete Brook is a freelance writer and curator, lead-blogger for Wired Magazines Raw File, and author/editor of his own Prison Photography journal.

Officially TDOUP / I Broke Pete's Rule "No Dogs"

Having recently purged my iPhoto Library to gain GB's (except for a few "choice" published images) I didn't have much to submit to Pete's brilliant project except one of way too many photos of my dogs - officially declared TDOUP for breaking Pete's rule "No dog photographs".