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Don’t Look Back The 2013 CCNY Staff Show Curated by I-Hsuen Chen & Alexander Perrelli July 17 – July 27, 2013 Opening Reception: Wednesday, July 17, 6-9pm 
Featuring: Halli Bischoff Alexander Bush Lindsey Castillo Jesse Cesario I-Hsuen Chen Michael J. Dalton II Katherine Finkelstein Ryan Foerster Gabriel Gutierrez Kara Hayden MengLing Hsieh Tessa Hutchcroft Neely Johnson Sarah Anne Wharton Kuhn Anne Lai Alexander Lane Azikiwe Mohammed Brayden Olson Car Pelleteri Alexander Perrelli John Stanley Christina Thurston Sam Williams
The Camera Club of New York is proud to present Don’t Look Back: The 2013 CCNY Staff Show, curated by I-Hsuen Chen and Alexander Perrelli, an exhibition featuring work from emerging photographers and celebrating each artist’s valuable commitment to supporting CCNY in fulfilling its non-profit mission. The camera therefore is an eye capable of looking forward and backward at the same time. Forward, it does in fact “shoot a picture”, backward, it records a vague shadow, sort of a x-ray of the photographer’s mind, by looking straight through his (or her) eye, to his(or her) bottom of soul. — Wim Wenders Don’t Look Back is an exhibition of works that both peer ahead to the future and long for what has been left behind, emphasizing loss, self-reflection, while hinting at what could be next. Many of the images evoke a melancholic sense of inertia, but others point to the potential of a dramatic transformation. Untitled, 2009, by Christina Thurston, depicts a young girl in a swimming suit, avoiding the camera. The awkward poise of the subject’s gesture suggests a sense of movement and uncertainty. The perspective in Michael J. Dalton II’s photograph entwines subject to photographer, expanding the encounter into complex emotional depths as it plays on the paradoxical ways of interpreting the exhibition’s title. Lindsey Castillo’s zine acts as a stop-motion illustration of the dichotomy of observing – the omniscient narrator offers us a silent, passive witness to the frantic, random movement of urban street life. Don’t Look Back depicts the sensitive relationship of the decisive moment to the lingerings of the past and the potentialities of the future.
Gallery hours: Monday – Saturday 12 - 6 pm
CCNY is celebrating over 125 years serving the photographic and art community through this and upcoming exhibitions, lectures, and special events. For more information, contact John Stanley at info@cameraclubny.org or by phone at 212–260–9927. |
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