ASMP competition: Deadline 15 August 2008
If you are a student ASMP member, you are invited to submit your fine art images to ASMP’s Close-Up competition. The details are at http://www.asmp.org/closeup08.
Close-Up is sponsored by the New York chapter of ASMP. Only ASMP members are eligible to enter, and every member is allowed to enter the first image free. There is a modest fee to enter additional images, if you so desire. The winning images will be exhibited this fall at Calumet’s gallery in New York City. Don’t wait. The contest closes on August 15.
The exhibition, Close-Up, considers the question of how we become subjects and how that process might be revealed in photography by drawing from Emmanuel Levinas’ book, Existents and Existence.
Does photography’s fracturing of time, space and narrative provide some of the basic principles of this particular set of thoughts? Does Photography create its own philosophy through its format?
According to Levinas, art allows us to step back and see things in a different context. Referring to photography, film and in particular to close-ups:
’Their interest does not only lie in that they can show details; they stop the action in which a particular is bound up with a whole, and let it exist apart. They let it manifest its particular and absurd nature which the camera discovers in a normally unexpected perspective — in a shoulder line to which the close-up gives the hallucinatory dimensions, laying bare what the visible universe and the play of its normal proportions tone down and conceal.’
By hinting at unexpected perspectives and cinematic characteristics, the photographer’s work may yield far more complicated questions than they answer. The exhibition becomes a voyage through the contested spaces: philosophy, photography, genre and method.
Juror Nina Trivedi is a London based performance artist and curator. Currently pursuing an MFA in Curating at Goldsmiths College. Previous projects include Photo 50 for the London Art Fair, Bad Year Blimp at Alma Enterprises and Parallel Lines with the Glasgow School of Art.
Close-Up is sponsored by the New York chapter of ASMP. Only ASMP members are eligible to enter, and every member is allowed to enter the first image free. There is a modest fee to enter additional images, if you so desire. The winning images will be exhibited this fall at Calumet’s gallery in New York City. Don’t wait. The contest closes on August 15.
The exhibition, Close-Up, considers the question of how we become subjects and how that process might be revealed in photography by drawing from Emmanuel Levinas’ book, Existents and Existence.
Does photography’s fracturing of time, space and narrative provide some of the basic principles of this particular set of thoughts? Does Photography create its own philosophy through its format?
According to Levinas, art allows us to step back and see things in a different context. Referring to photography, film and in particular to close-ups:
’Their interest does not only lie in that they can show details; they stop the action in which a particular is bound up with a whole, and let it exist apart. They let it manifest its particular and absurd nature which the camera discovers in a normally unexpected perspective — in a shoulder line to which the close-up gives the hallucinatory dimensions, laying bare what the visible universe and the play of its normal proportions tone down and conceal.’
By hinting at unexpected perspectives and cinematic characteristics, the photographer’s work may yield far more complicated questions than they answer. The exhibition becomes a voyage through the contested spaces: philosophy, photography, genre and method.
Juror Nina Trivedi is a London based performance artist and curator. Currently pursuing an MFA in Curating at Goldsmiths College. Previous projects include Photo 50 for the London Art Fair, Bad Year Blimp at Alma Enterprises and Parallel Lines with the Glasgow School of Art.
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