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April 30, 2021 On April 20, Lyle Rexer of the School of Visual Arts virtually visited Lawrence University students and faculty to speak about the “de-skilling and re-skilling of photography.” Rexer’s topic, “Bad Pictures of Bad Subjects,” focused on the complexities of images that appear “bad” or mundane, as well as their effect on popular culture and the art world. He stated that he gravitated towards “all these places where nobody’s paying attention” in photography, especially in the age of social media, where there are few barriers to entry for photographers and viewers. There are complexities to images that appear simple or vernacular, primarily ignored by the art world, since they are viewed as offensive or threatening. His focus is paying more attention to the idiosyncrasies of these images and decoding the purpose behind them, even though they are often dismissed. These photos make viewers question what they know about art photography and art in gene ....
The photographer Richard Rothman spent more than a decade taking pictures in a small town along the Front Range of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. The resulting monograph, Town of C , was published by Stanley/Barker, and a selection of the photographs appears in the March issue of Harper’s Magazine . The book’s scope is comprehensive, documenting the grandeur and the despoliation of the region’s geography and the lives and spaces of its poorest and richest residents. “Through portraits and landscapes,” the critic and curator Lyle Rexer writes in his introduction, “Rothman presents the paradox of expansiveness and confinement, of possibility and crushing limitation.” ....
Colby College Museum of Art Receives Collection of More Than 500 Photographs January 12, 2021 207-577-2600
Colby College Museum of Art receives collection of more than 500 photographs, including works by Ansel Adams, James Van Der Zee, Dorothea Lange, Edward Steichen, and Lissette Solórzano
The Tsiaras Family Photography Collection, gift of Colby alumni Dr. William Tsiaras and Nancy Meyer Tsiaras, further solidifies Colby’s Museum as a leading destination for American art A transformative gift to the Colby College Museum of Art of more than 500 photographs from the private collection of Dr. William Tsiaras ’68, P’03 and Nancy Meyer Tsiaras ’68, P’03 will significantly expand and deepen the Museum’s photography holdings. This collection, inspired by the gift of a camera to William (“Bill”) as a young émigré and shaped by his photographer patients, expands the Museum’s holdings in ways that advance its ability to tell a ....