What does photography want? How do we subvert that? This is photography that exists before us, in spite of us, after us.
Collins, C.; The Sory of America in Pictures (1935) ICI Shelf: Warburg First Line: “The most fascinating history is pictorial, even though the pictures are in words.” ICI History: Today at the ICI — Twitter Feed (07-30-14) Accession #: ICI-00382
Frank, Robert, introduction by Jack Kerouac; The Americans (2008) ICI Shelf: Photography First Line: “That crazy feeling in America when the sun is hot on the streets and music comes out of the jukebox or from a nearby funeral” ICI History: Today at the ICI … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: The Americans
Arbus, Diane; Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph (1972) ICI Shelf: Artist Monographs First Line: “Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.” ICI History: Today at the ICI — Twitter Feed (03-27-14) Accession #: ICI-00742
Lavin, Maud; Cut with the Kitchen Knife: the Weimar Photomontages of Hannah Hoch (1988) ICI Shelf: Artist Monographs First Line: “Questions about the representation of women and the social construction of feminine identities have redirected our understanding of twentieth-century culture.” ICI History: Today at the … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: Cut with the Kitchen Knife
Dyer, Geoff; From Here to There: Alec Soth’s America (2010) ICI Shelf: Culture First Line: “Men think about sex every seven seconds, but I think about project titles.” ICI History: Today at the ICI — Twitter Feed (09-24-13) Accession #: ICI-02493
TITLE: “Dreaming” DESCRIPTION: An iconic image from Axel Forrester’s archive that has figured prominently in ICI mythology. Donor: Lise Patt ICI LOCATION: Photo Cabinet ICI HISTORY: Laboratory Blog: HOLES (revisited) rhizome (12/2012)
Title: “Sebald’s Holes” Description: Photo field document from an ICI Interpretive Field project – Searching for Sebald. Many photos were taken on that trip, some of which seem to come from deep memories that had yet to form in consciousness. Only when the group returned … Continue readingEPHEMERA KABINETT: Sebald’s Grave Holes
TITLE: “Hole in the window at MCASD, La Jolla” DESCRIPTION: Photograph document from PST exhibition LOCATION: Photo Cabinet DATE: 2011 DISCUSSION: By cutting a hole in a museum’s existing window, the artist (quite literally) creates a rupture in art’s institution(s). But he does so much more. … Continue readingEPHEMERA KABINETT: Holes in Art and Life
Jarman, Derek Blue: Das Buch zum Film (1994) ICI Shelf: London First Line: “You say to the boy open your eyes” Last Line: “I place a delphinium, Blue, upon your grave.” ICI History: Today at the ICI — Twitter Feed: Last Line (12-03-11); First Line … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: BLUE
Purcell, Rosamond and Michael Witmore Landscapes of the Passing Strange: Reflections from Shakespeare (2011) LAST LINE: “From time to time, I do get lucky.” ICI SHELF: Photography ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (02-28-12)