May | June 2007 - Boston Photography Focus

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EXHIBITIONS ONLINE
NEO | MAY 2007
David Strasburger
www.bu.edu/prc/strasburger.htm
A Boston native and a current resident of Somerville MA, David
Strasburger is a physics teacher at Noble and Greenough School,
an independent school in Dedham MA. Largely self-taught, Strasburger
continues to learn photographic craft from friends and colleagues
along the way. A graduate of Oberlin College, he has
attended Maine Photographic Workshops and been schooled in
alternative processes with noted experts Christopher James and
Pradip Malde. After building a darkroom on a sabbatical, he drove
across the country photographing what he thought of as “domestic
landscapes,” looking for what he has described as “the geometry of
intimacy and the anatomy of inhabited space.” Featured online will
be a selection from this ongoing series titled “Analemma,” printed
delicately in the handmade processes of kallitype and platinum/palladium.
Often framing a view or a spatial or emotional expanse,
Strasburger’s diptychs and triptychs are his way of attempting to
answer or pose questions he cannot address in any other way than
by taking a photograph.
The PRC announces the next installments in the Northeast Exposure online
(NEO) series. The virtual gallery is by invite only and features a selection of
images, a biography, artist and curator statements, and links.
David Strasburger, In Morgan’s Kitchen, 2003, gold-toned kallitype,
4 x 15 inches, Courtesy of and copyright the artist
FILM: PICTURE SHOW AT THE
PARADISE WITH ZAMPANO’S
PLAYHOUSE
AN EVENING OF VINTAGE FILMS AND
CINEMATIC THRILLS TO CELEBRATE
THE CLOSING OF PICTURE SHOW
TUESDAY, MAY 1, 7PM
PARADISE LOUNGE, 969 COMMONWEALTH
AVENUE, BOSTON (THEDISE.COM)
FREE
THIS IS AN 18 AND OVER EVENT.
As a closing act for the PRC’s Picture Show
exhibition, this screening of vintage 16mm
films offers an eclectic study of innovation in
motion. Each film in this evening’s roughly
chronological romp through the 20th Century
will present an innovation captured or
imagined on film, or an innovation in film
technology itself. The genius of the Fleischer
Brothers is prominently displayed in several
gems including Betty Boop in SNOW
WHITE (1933). In anticipation of the Internet,
the illicit short UNCLE SI AND THE
SIRENS (1938) portrays a yokel’s television
as an imagined gateway to nude women
romping in faraway lands. Later segments
present the wonderful color technology that
is KODACHROME as seen in one of Jam
Handy’s Chevrolet promotions, THE RAIN-
BOW IS YOURS (1952). Enjoy several
MARVEL COMICS cartoons from 1966, in
which the company brought Captain America,
Iron Man, Thor, and others to television.
For more information please visit our website
at prcboston.org or call 617.975.0600.
PANEL DISCUSSION/BOOK
SIGNING: MANY VIEWS OF THE
GREAT MARSH
THURSDAY, MAY 17, 7PM
BOSTON UNIVERSITY’S COLLEGE OF COM-
MUNICATIONS, AUDITORIUM 101, 640 COM-
MONWEALTH AVENUE, BOSTON
FREE
Join award-winning photographer Dorothy
Kerper Monnelly for a discussion of her new
book Between Land and Sea: The Great
Marsh. This collection of 57 exquisite black
and white photographs, crisply rendered
from Monnelly’s large-format silver gelatin
prints, is a spellbinding meditation on the
Great Marsh, a vast, mysterious, and evershifting
world that is one of the last unspoiled
wilderness areas of the Northeast.
Following the discussion of her book, a
panel of experts will join Monnelly to
explore significant ecological, environmental,
and preservation issues raised by the images
from a variety of perspectives. Topics to be
considered include the history and biology
of the Great Marsh and coastal marshes in
general, the current ecological state of the
Marsh, its threats, and preservation efforts.
The panel will also address how other artists
and writers have been inspired by this
sublime landscape. Panelists include: David
Mountain PhD, Professor, Biomedical Engineering,
Boston University and founder of
NEO | JUNE 2007
Irina Rozovsky
www.bu.edu/prc/rozovsky.htm
Born in Moscow, Rozovsky studied Spanish and French at Tufts
University and received her MFA from Massachusetts College of Art
in May 2007. A mentor to incoming students at MassArt, Rozovsky
has also served as a teaching assistant to Sharon Harper and an
exhibitions photographer in the Visual and Environmental Studies
Department at Harvard University. Her exhibition record includes
Faces of Boston, a juried group show at Boston City Hall, and Boston
Young Contemporaries, juried by Kiki Smith, Gideon Bok, and
Laura Donaldson, at BU’s 808 Gallery. Rozovsky will be featured
in Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies’ forthcoming publication,
25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers (2008), as
selected by renowned photographer Sylvia Plachy. Featured online
will be selections from a current body of color work drawn from
her thesis show, “My Mother and Other Things from the Sky.” In a
style that she describes as “intimate distance,” Rozovsky delicately
depicts people and objects in various states of transition, gravity,
and gravitas.
UPCOMING NEOS:
July 2007: Amy Giese, www.bu.edu/prc/giese.htm
August 2007: Jim Turbert, www.bu.edu/prc/turbert.htm
Steve Hollinger, Two Details of Cenotaph, 2003,
responds to sunlight, materials include concrete,
glass prism, animated cards, latex binding, solar
mechanism, 24 x 10 x 14 inches, Courtesy of and
collection of artist
Steve Hollinger, Supercollider, 2004, responds to
Irina Rozovsky, sunlight, Mama materials reaching include up from moving the series picture discs,
“My Mother and strobe, Other solar Things mechanism, from the wooden Sky,” 2006, box, 9 x 11 x 4
Archival
inches,
inkjet
Courtesy
print, 36
of
x
Chase
45 inches,
Gallery, Boston
Courtesy of and copyright the artist
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