Metadata: Rethinking Photography from the 21st Century is an exhibition that explores new paradigms for understanding the ecology of the photographic image. The exhibition features work from the past decade by an international selection of artists and visual activists that are working to make palpable the unseen information, or metadata, that undergirds the image regime. This includes not just the tags or descriptors attached to image files, but the power relationships, biases, and economic interests that are not always visible in the image itself. The exhibition is curated by Christopher Jones, Stanton B. and Nancy W. Kaplan Curator of Photography and Media Art.
Carolle Benitah artwork is included in the collective exhibition from the McEvoy Family Collection’s extensive holdings of portraiture, Image Gardeners, from Jan 14 - April 2022. This show assembles eight decades of portrait photography by women and non-binary makers who reflect, reframe, and resist dominant conventions of representation. In opposition to Susan Sontag’s theory that photography is a “voracious way of seeing,” an image gardener employs photographic seeing as a means of cultivation, preservation, and collaboration. Together, the portrait photographs on view nurture new visions of the self and challenge our collective understanding of how identity is constructed, communicated, and perceived.Among others, this show includes self-portraits by Diane Arbus, Vivian Maier, and others, or Lorna Simpson.
Join Sous Les Etoiles Gallery at Art On Paper from 8 -11 September, 2022
New York Noir is a collection of iconic images taken by the legendary photojournalist Jean Pierre Laffont since he made New York his home in 1964. From the civil rights movement, to kids playing in the street; from celebrity to gangs,
Laffont has covered all aspects of the city.
New York Noir by Jean-Pierre Laffont, edited by Eliane Laffont, Peanut Press, 2021. 40 pages, 125 dollars (signed limited edition, sold with a print).