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Castles in the sky

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Vicenta Casañ - Castillos en el aire

A couple of weeks ago, Vicenta Casañ‘s exhibition of photographs “Castillos en el Aire” opened at Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts.

Vicenta Casañ - Castillos en el aire

Vicenta Casañ - Castillos en el aire

Vicenta Casañ - Castillos en el aire

I enjoyed the premise of this exhibition, at least what I have deduced. I like the fact that Vicenta Casañ makes works about where she lives. In earlier works, she vested an interest in the study of her environment. There is a critique of Miami real estate development in these works, but I perceive a stronger poetic statement in her search for beauty in the image of Miami and her selective portrayal of this town.

some more photos from the nytimes

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Spectral photography is the subject of “The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult,” an exhibition that will be opening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 27.

The 120 pictures in the exhibition are by turns spooky, beautiful, disturbing and hilarious. They are also, by and large, the visual records of decades of fraud, cons, flimflams and gullibility – though there are also some pictures, like those produced by an eccentric Chicago bellhop, Ted Serios, said to be purely from his thoughts, in the 1960’s, that have never been adequately explained.

This preview article is also a sketch of Pierre Apraxine, one of the curators, at the Met, in charge of this exhibition. He is profiled as “the eyes, ears and auction proxy for the philanthropist Howard Gilman, who built a collection – recently acquired by the Met – that is widely considered to be one of the most important in the world.”

The article. The slideshow.

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The NYTimes.com has an article on an exhibition of color phtographs, from the Depression Era, at the Library of Congress. The Print and Photographs Division of the LoC published ‘Bound for Glory‘, a book of photographs from which this exhibition is extracted. Most, 164,000, of the photos from the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection are in black and white, but some, 1600, are in color. The color photographs’ artistic value seemed to have been in question. This issue is still present today in the criticism of photography. As far as color goes, I love the limited color palette of kodachrome. I would love shot some that film stock.
There is a slideshow on the NYTimes.

Marion Post Wolcott - Library of Congress
I really like this image. It reminds me of rural Haiti. The photgrapher is Marion Post Wolcott. A biography can be found here.
The library of the University of Miami has some pages, ‘for teachers and students’, about of the FSA-OWI photographs in Florida. Marion Post Wolcott consciously portrayed class difference in America. While in and around Miami, she photographed blacks, migrant workers, their living conditons and Miami Beach and its fancy offerings.

Marion Post Wolcott - Library of Congress
The rights of these images are administered by Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection.