Blog for Monday 3/5/10
Recently, my roommates and I tripped out of our Chelsea apartment, and down the street to the International Center of Photography. The Center is located on 43rd st. The exhibit we were going to see is called, Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris. We were rushed for time, but we were still very much interested in seeing the Twilight Visions photography exhibit. The exhibit was quite intriguing, Theresa Lichtensten guest curated the event and drew from several different surrealist photographers of the 20's and 30's. The exhibition focuses on photography in Paris, at the time of Twilight. As the wall text states, twilight visions focuses on the dreamlike quality twilight brings to the photographs. The photographs highlight the new avant garde style that was emerging at that time. The relevance of the exhibition to Paris and the 20's and 30's speaks for itself as you walk through the several photographs, films, and books. The overall feeling of the exhibit is characterized by a feeling of newness and magic. The historical context of this exhibit places us in the aftermath of World War I. The multiple angles used and the different techniques used to capture images echoes the movements in Paris after the war. I thought the exhibition was successful in its examination of a specific time period and genre. The exhibition will be up through May 9, 2010. Though this exhibition will not offer any new or modern forms of art, its look back into history, with a fresh focus on Twilight Vision does the photographs of Paris and its subject matter justice. As you look at the photographs through the lens of Twilight Surrealism, and the War, you can feel the magic that these still frames embody.
Again, some of your links are a little off. When you mention twilight visions the second time - it's to a review. Why not just say, hey, check out this review...Otherwise it's jarring to the reader. And though wikipedia is fine, don't lean too heavily on it . It's good for basic definitions, but, for example, when you mention paris after the war, how great would it have been to have a link to a couple of articles abotu art in that period? You see how much richer tht would have been?
ReplyDelete