"Echo of the Object" Travels to Knoxville, Tennessee

Ken Josephson, Tennessee, 1979

Here are some random pictures of the road trip to Knoxville, Tennessee to install Echo of the Object with David Hannon, Hannah Barnes, and Jennifer Halvorson. The professional (not iPhone) installation images will appear tomorrow.

The exhibition of many, many grids.

David making Hannah's drawings even more crooked.

Wall signage!

In progress installation panoramas.

One more name to add to my growing list (this one was a practical joke but I'm happy it included a "q").

Chairs congregating in the Painting classroom at University of Tennessee

The University of Tennessee Art and Architecture Building reminded me Le Centre Georges Pompidou c. 1981.

We stopped at Cumberland Falls, Kentucky on the way back to Indiana (hello brown water).

Hannah's map of Daniel Boone National Forest and the Red River Gorge at Cumberland Falls.

Family Photos: Part 1

Ralph Eugene Meatyard, The Family Photo Album of Lucybelle Crater, 1970-72


Seydou Keita, Bamako, 1956


Ken Josephson, Anissa, 1969


Zhang Huan, Family Tree, 2000


Jessica Todd Harper, Christmas Eve Dinner, 2006


Rita Marhaug, 256 pounds, 1988


Doug Dubois, Lisa and James, Ithaca, NY, 2005


Tina Barney, Sunday New York Times, 1982


Richard Avedon, Lyal Burl and His Sons Kerry & Philip, 1981


Diane Arbus, Brooklyn Family, 1966


Emmet Gowin, Edith, Ruth & Mae, 1967

Ai WeiWei & the Interjecting Presence

Ai WeiWei, Study of Perspective - San Marco, 1995-2003

As one of many people thinking about the disappearance of Ai WeiWei lately and threatening to boycott anything Chinese (see below), it's due time to post these images of photographers interjecting their presence in front of the viewfinder.





In Study of Perspective, WeiWei traveled to national monuments – from the Basilica di San Marco in Venice, to the White House in Washington, D.C., to Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. He then shoots his own arm extended in front of the camera lens as he gives each site the finger. It's not about measurement and scale as so many artists have explored in the past (Ken Josephson below) but of a critique of politics, nationalism, and culture.


Ken Josephson, Wyoming, 1971


Nick Waplington, From Other Edens, 1994



Nick Waplington, Detail from Other Edens, 1994


Lee Friedlander, 1997

It's also curious to note that the photographers above are intrinsically tied to travel - occupying/exploring/claiming the landscape behind them.