archival inkjet on paper; 2018. Courtesy of the artist and the New Orleans Museum of Art
COLLAGE ON VIEW
New Photography: Create, Collect, Compile
at the New Orleans Museum of Art in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
6 November 2020-7 March 2021
“New Photography: Create, Collect, Compile” brings together the work of four contemporary photographers—Elliott Jerome Brown, Jr. (American, born 1993), Esther Hovers (Dutch, born 1991), Dionne Lee (American, born 1988), and Guanyu Xu (Chinese, born 1993)—who all work with and critique new practices in photography. In a world where photography has become an open-source language, these artists pose questions about who gets to use that language and what it can communicate.
Artists featured in New Photography consider and respond to the ways in which making and sharing photographs has shifted dramatically over the past two decades, and how those changes can lead to issues of access, privacy, and control of one’s image and story. By engaging with these concerns, Brown, Hovers, Lee, and Xu work to re-assert control over the photographic story through the creation, collection, or compilation of images. Unified by their understanding of the photograph as an ambiguous messenger, these photographers work both with and against new photography practices to trace stories about identity, community, and power. Whether interspersing magazine images with photographs of their own in ambitious installation images (Xu), embedding photographs within the museum’s architecture (Brown), appropriating and transforming sailing, landscape, and survival images (Lee), or interrogating the collection of images by surveillance cameras (Hovers), each of these artists considers how photographs, both found and made, and the spaces in which they are encountered interact to create new meaning.
“New Photography” is organized jointly by Russell Lord, Freeman Family Curator of Photographs and Brian Piper, Mellon Foundation Assistant Curator of Photographs. “New Photography” is sponsored by the Del and Ginger Hall Photography Fund. Additional support is provided by George and Milly Denegre, John Abajian and Scott Simmons, the A. Charlotte Mann and Joshua Mann Pailet Endowment, and Delta Airlines.
(Text adapted from the museum’s press materials)
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