Due to a misunderstanding regarding the days that the show would be open, I was unable to see the Stiff Lace show at Rumors. When I visited Rumors the day after, all that was left on display were two pieces that I was unable to get any information about at the time but later gathered that they were the work of Janissa Hamilton. I didn't have any real strong feelings about the images themselves. I did however find their presentation much more interesting. The images were set in an old window which served as a sort of frame. They were not refurbished and made to look new which I thought to better suit the images than if they had been. I liked the concept of recycling something like an old window to use to present something new and that the viewer had to look through the old to see the new. Another element to the presentation that had my attention was the fact that the images were back lit, an idea that had crossed my mind for use with my own work in the past.
Though there was little for me to see at Rumors, I was still able to see one of the other photographers works outside of the Stiff Lace show. Kevin Faison is in my intermediate photography class though he is at the junior level with the majority of his other classes within the department. He was kind enough to bring in the images that he had displayed at the stiff lace show to present to the class for those who had not been able to attend. For the actual show I had been told that the images were hanging on clothing hangers much like the way the clothing would be displayed for sale and that the 4x6 images were laying flat on a table. Though hanging the larger prints being hung on clothes hangers sounds interesting because it creates an interactive experience much like shopping for clothing, my experience of Kevin's work was much different than this.
When the class had gathered around the table to see Kevin's work, the prints were all in stack sorted by size and also by portrait and non-portrait. He poceeded to space them out all over the table and did so quite randomly. After one stack was spread and had been sitting for a minute or two he would do the same with a different stack of prints untill all of the images were displayed and overlapping leaving very little of the tabletop uncovered. By the end there was a large collage of imagery in front of us which I felt was a great display of his broad body of work. The class was able to see each piece individually as it was layed out and also the body of work as a whole where images lay one on top of another allowing for a relationship to exist between the images which previously stood alone. As with Janissa's work, there were some of Kevin's photographs that did not particularly move me but his displaying of them in that manner allowed me to observe his general perspective on the things he photographs. With that insight, I am interested to see if his work will maintain the same direction.
Though there was little for me to see at Rumors, I was still able to see one of the other photographers works outside of the Stiff Lace show. Kevin Faison is in my intermediate photography class though he is at the junior level with the majority of his other classes within the department. He was kind enough to bring in the images that he had displayed at the stiff lace show to present to the class for those who had not been able to attend. For the actual show I had been told that the images were hanging on clothing hangers much like the way the clothing would be displayed for sale and that the 4x6 images were laying flat on a table. Though hanging the larger prints being hung on clothes hangers sounds interesting because it creates an interactive experience much like shopping for clothing, my experience of Kevin's work was much different than this.
When the class had gathered around the table to see Kevin's work, the prints were all in stack sorted by size and also by portrait and non-portrait. He poceeded to space them out all over the table and did so quite randomly. After one stack was spread and had been sitting for a minute or two he would do the same with a different stack of prints untill all of the images were displayed and overlapping leaving very little of the tabletop uncovered. By the end there was a large collage of imagery in front of us which I felt was a great display of his broad body of work. The class was able to see each piece individually as it was layed out and also the body of work as a whole where images lay one on top of another allowing for a relationship to exist between the images which previously stood alone. As with Janissa's work, there were some of Kevin's photographs that did not particularly move me but his displaying of them in that manner allowed me to observe his general perspective on the things he photographs. With that insight, I am interested to see if his work will maintain the same direction.
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