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Archive Fever – Maria Antonella Pelizzari

Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Maria Antonella Pelizzari | Artists: Fazal Sheikh, Tacita Dean

[Summer 2008] International Center of Photography, New York, January 18 – May 4, 2008 An overall sense of clutter and discomfort pervades the installation of Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, the current exhibition at the International Center of Photography (ICP) curated by Okui Enwenzor and modlelled on Jacques Derrida’s seminal essay […]

W. M. Hunt, Collection Dancing Bear, Vernacular images – Maria-Antonella Pelizzari, Hide and seek in a photograph collection

Ciel variable 78 - COLLECTING PHOTOGRAPHY | Portfolios
Authors: Maria Antonella Pelizzari

[Spring 2008] For thirty years, W. H. Hunt has been building a photography collection that brings together 1,200 works marked by the absence of sight in the photographed subjects. Composed of classical and contemporary works by renowned artists, as well as documentary images and snapshots by amateur photographers, this collection spans the entire history of […]

ECOTOPIA: Allegories of Disaster – Maria Antonella Pelizzari

Ciel variable 75 - MUTATIONS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Maria Antonella Pelizzari | Artists: Adam Broomberg, Carlos & Jason Sanchez, Oliver Chanarin, Robert Adams

[Fall 2007] International Center of Photography, New York September 14, 2006–January 7, 2007 The debate over the effect of technology on the land has always been central to American photography and culture. In the nineteenth century, it was about the optimistic arrival of railroad tracks in the wilderness; in the early twentieth century, it was […]