ACP Catalogues

Customs Ignored

ACP — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:30:21 +1000

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Customs Ignored

Lithuanian and Australian Photography

Editor: Mindaugas Kavaliauskas
Published: Mindaugas Kavaliauskas, 2009

Customs Ignored: Lithuanian and Australian Photography, is a book from Lithuanian photographer, curator and publisher Mindaugas Kavaliauskas. The book showcases the work of nine Australian and nine Lithuanian photographers who seek to document, discuss, and escape the alienation of affluent Western society.

Heresies

ACP — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:36:47 +1100

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Heresies

Pedro Meyer (Soft Cover)

Published: The Pedro Meyer Foundation, 2008

Mexican photographer Pedro Meyer is as renowned for his powerful and provocative photographs as he is for his pioneering work with digital imaging. Meyer’s photographs consistently test the limits of truth, fiction and reality. With the advent of digital photography in the early 1990s, Meyer evolved from a documentary photographer who created so-called “straight photographs” into a digital-documentarian who often combines photographic elements from disparate times and places to arrive at a different or higher truth. Meyer’s often expressed contention that all photographs - digitally manipulated or not - are equally “true” and “untrue” has been labeled “heretical” in the orthodox documentary photography community. Hence the title Heresies.

IMAGE © Pedro Meyer Temptation of the Angel. La Mixteca, Oaxaca, Mexico 1991

Heresies

ACP — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:35:02 +1100

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Heresies

Pedro Meyer (Hard Cover)

Published: The Pedro Meyer Foundation, 2008

IMAGE © Pedro Meyer Temptation of the Angel. La Mixteca, Oaxaca, Mexico 1991

Marian Drew

ACP — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:38:57 +1000

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Marian Drew

Photographs + Video Works

Published: Queensland Centre for Photography, 2006

Marian Drew is one of Australia's most influential and significant photo-media artists. Her practice has spanned more than twenty years, and is characterised by innovative photo-media explorations.

This publication is the first monograph of Marian Drew's work, presenting a survey of her practice from 1983-2006. It contains texts by Dr Caroline Jordan, Anne Kirker, Dr Brigitta Olubas, Russell Storer and the artist, with a foreword by internationally renowned art theoritician Geoffrey Batchen. The publication includes a DVD with a selection of Drew's video works, two documentaries by Alex Chomicz and a interview with the artist by Kris Carlon.

Includes: video works and documentary

IMAGE © Marian Drew The Dance 1 (The Argument) 1998

Hijacked

ACP — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:23:25 +1000

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Hijacked

Volume 1 Australia and America

Editor: Mark McPherson and Max Pam
Published: Big City Press & Systems Design Limited, 2008

Hijacked brings together, for the first time, an uncompromising movement of international cultural exchange. Presenting the most diverse and provocative new photography from Australia and America, the book erases traditional boundaries between artists, professionals and emerging talent in order to point towards the future of contemporary photography.

Shunning repetitive and predictable structures, Hijacked's aesthetic is directed by the mindset and energy of young and emerging practitioners. Embracing the prevailing wanderlust, their work exhibits a fascination with international subcultures, fragmented trends, alternate life styles and urban landscapes. Explorations of suburban pleasures are placed on par with 'high' artistic experimentation.

While assembling the visions of its contributors, Hijacked delves into the practical and conceptual issues of the world of contemporary photography. Interviews provide a social comment on the socio-scape of Australia and America, and highlights talking points from discussions with artists on communication, social awareness, capitalism and the impact of commerce on identity and artistic practice.

IMAGE © Brian Cross Lil Cesar, Los Angeles 1998

Photographica Australis

ACP — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:01:10 +1000

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Photographica Australis

Sala del Canal de Isabel II, Madrid

Editor: Alasdair Foster
Published: Australian Centre for Photography, 2002

"The 2002 edition of ARCO, the Spanish International Contemporary Art Fair, focuses on Australia, and the Consejeria seeks to join together the many cultural initiatives taking place in Madrid at this time. In association with the Australian Embassy, we present the exhibition Photographica Australis, the title of which is a clear allusion to the botanical nomenclature used by the first colonists when classifying the rich variety of Australian nature. Similarly this exhibition features the great creative diversity and freshness achieved by a group of Australian artists in their handling of the image through a variety of media and techniques. Given its distinctive architecture, we consider the Sale del Canal de Isabel II to be an especially approriate venue for this exhibition, setting within the frame of our wider aim to present the most innovative trends in contemporary art." Alicia Moreno- Consejera de las Artes. (re: From the Forward for Catalogue)

Website: australis.acp.org.au

IMAGE © Anne Zahalka Cole Classic 1998

La Mirada Crítica

ACP — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:34:25 +1000

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La Mirada Crítica

Luis González Palma

Editor: Alasdair Foster
Published: Australian Centre for Photography, 2002

There is a deep sadness and a disquieting peace in the work of Luis González Palma, receiving it's Australian premiere at the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney. Many of his images are portraits, close-cropped and large in scale. His subjects are the Mayan Indians of his homeland of Guatemala adorned with symbolic decoration drawn from both indigenous culture and Hispanic Catholicism. For almost his entire life, a civil war was waged in that country. Hundreds of indigenous Mayan villages were razed to the ground, more than 100,000 people died and a million were made refugees. But his are not documentary images of the facts of war, instead they are poetic meditations filled with contrasts and contradictions: beauty and sorrow, mysticism and violence, poetry and pain.

Luis González Palma is an internationally renowned artist. His work featured in last year's Venice Biennale, previously in São Paulo and Havana, and won the Grand Prize at FotoEspaña, Madrid in 1999. He has had major solo shows across North and South America, Europe and Asia including in the Art Institute of Chicago; Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City; Royal Festival Hall, London; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museo del Barrio, New York and Ludwig Forum fur International Kunst, Aachen, Germany.

IMAGE © Luis González Palma El pájaro (The Bird) 1989

Awakening

ACP — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:29:58 +1000

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Awakening

an exhibition of contemporary Korean photo-media

Published: Australian Centre for Photography, 2001

Specially commissioned by the ACP, Awakening is the first exhibition dedicated to contemporary Korean photography to be shown in Australia. The exhibition has been curated by the Seoul-based artist, curator and academic, Bohnchang Koo, and introduces seven of the most active mid-career photographic practitioners of the past decade. Through a variety of photo-media, they express social, environmental and emotional sensibilities that are very much of the moment in Korea.

Bohnchang Koo's and Byunghun Min's black and white prints reflect Taoist traditions, which have been a fundamental part of the Korean psyche, through imagery that suggests oriental ink drawing. Il Hong and Jongmyung Lee photograph urban landscapes in the process of rapid change, while Jehak Yu expresses the feelings of isolation felt by the individual in a fast-moving contemporary society. Heinkuhn Oh captures a specific group of women (the Ajumma) who, in middle age and with their families grown up, try to find a place within the male chauvinistic Confucian tradition which still exists in Korean society. Finally, Atta Kim creates works that express Buddhist traditions with modern colours and iconography through the construction of strong metaphoric tableaux and the recurrent device of the glass display case.

Cloud & Empire

ACP — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:26:18 +1000

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Cloud & Empire

Michael Riley

Published: Australian Centre for Photography, 2000

Cloud is a new body of work investigating Michael Riley's enforced Christian upbringing and the wider impact of such upbringing on Indigenous communities throughout Australia. The work addresses processes of assimilation: the removing of Indigenous peoples onto reserves to 'die out' and the imposed conversion to Christianity.

Recognising both negative and positive outcomes of his upbringing, Cloud seeks to make sense of a history that defies simple resolution.

Empire is the acclaimed and evocative 1997 film directed by Riley for The Festival of the Dreaming, with music by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.

Gradience

ACP — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:22:48 +1000

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Gradience

Rosemary Laing

Editor: Alasdair Foster
Published: Australian Centre for Photography, 2000

Rosemary Laing is one of Australia's leading photo-media artists. Her sophisticated, witty and immaculately presented works have a distinct visual signature, while her subjects have spanned a wide range of ideas: from disasters to paradise; from the NASA space shuttle to a bride levitating over the Blue Mountains.

Presented in affiliation with the prestigious Sydney Biennale 2000 and reflecting the festival's theme of outstanding artists who have made a significant impact and innovation over the past two decades, this exhibition will review the work of Rosemary Laing from Bicentennial to Millennium.