Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ric, you shoot signs, and I have a selection on my gallery too, so I thought you might be interested in this (from A Word A Day list): >Subject: "Signs: Wordplay in Photography" Exhibit >An exhibit opens January 17 at the de Young museum in San Francisco, >titled: "Signs: Wordplay in Photography" and continues through >June 14, >2009. The museum's description of the exhibit states: >The communications theorist Marshall McLuhan called advertising 'the >greatest art form of the twentieth century'. It is not surprising to >find >that signs appear with greater frequency in modern and contemporary >photographs than in any other medium. Even before the Pop >Art movement, they were admitted into the photographic frame as bold >graphic elements. There they may simply provide documentary >information, >or they may give voice to silent pictures, though the messages that they >convey in the photographic image may contradict >their original purpose. >This exhibition explores the myriad uses of signs in the work of a range of >20th- and 21st-century photographers, from Walker Evans to >Lee Friedlander >and Ed Ruscha. Works are drawn from the museum collection, loans from Paul >Sack Photographic Trust, and loans from >private collections." Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer UPAA POY 1978 University Information Technology Services University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/