#nyplpicturecollection

[lukegauthier]

[lukegauthier]

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Serious thinkers, rejoice. 'Taryn Simon: The Color of a Flea’s Eye, The Picture Collection' is available now from @cahiersdart This superb 460-page hardcover presents a history of the @nyplpicturecollection — a legendary trove of more than one million prints, photographs, postcards, posters and images from disused books and periodicals. Since its inception in 1915, the Picture Collection has been a vital resource for writers, historians, artists, filmmakers, fashion designers and advertising agencies. In her work 'The Picture Collection' (2012-20), Simon highlighted the impulse to organize visual information, and pointed to the invisible hands behind seemingly neutral systems of image gathering. Each of Simon’s photographs is made up of an array of images selected from a given subject folder, such as Chiaroscuro, Handshaking, Haircombing, Express Highways, Financial Panics, Israel, and Beards & Mustaches. In artfully overlapped compositions, only slices of the individual images are visible, each fragment suggesting its whole. Simon sees this extensive archive of images as the precursor to internet search engines. Such an unlikely futurity in the past is at the core of the Picture Collection. The digital is foreshadowed in the analogue, at the same time that history—its classifications, its contents—seems the stuff of projection. Simon spent years sifting through letters, memos and records that reveal an untold story between the library and artists, media, government and a broader public. These documents also divulge the removal and transfer of photographs from the democratically circulating picture-collection folders to the photography collection in the late 1980s when their marketplace value became apparent. Simon’s selection of photographs from these transfers highlights gender, immigration, race and economy in America alongside the technical development of photography. Produced in direct collaboration with the artist, the book contains 57 individually hand tipped-in plates, numerous gatefolds and a variety of unique papers, as well as essays by @joshuachuang & @timgriffinnyc Read more via linkinbio. #tarynsimon #colorofafleaseye #nyplpicturecollection https://www.instagram.com/p/CSXDiMorVaE/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Read more about the @nyplpicturecollection and 'Taryn Simon: The Color of a Flea’s Eye' from @cahiersdart @nytimes !! ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ “You see the people go through it and touch it and have the spontaneity of discovery,” said Taryn Simon, the Conceptual artist who has been photographing the Picture Collection’s treasures for nine years, making collages that can currently be seen at @gagosian “It’s so multidimensional. It just keeps swirling. I think of it as a performance piece or an installation.”⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ #tarynsimon #colorofafleaseye #nyplpicturecollection https://www.instagram.com/p/CSXDmesLEPx/?utm_medium=tumblr

[artbookdap]

Serious thinkers, rejoice. 'Taryn Simon: The Color of a Flea’s Eye, The Picture Collection' is available now from @cahiersdart⁠ ⁠ This superb 460-page hardcover presents a history of the @nyplpicturecollection — a legendary trove of more than 1 million prints, photographs, postcards, posters and images from disused books and periodicals. Since its inception in 1915, the Picture Collection has been a vital resource for writers, historians, artists, filmmakers, fashion designers and advertising agencies.⁠⁠ In 'The Picture Collection' (2012-20), Simon highlighted the impulse to organize visual information, and pointed to the invisible hands behind seemingly neutral systems of image gathering. Each of Simon’s photographs is made up of an array of images selected from a given subject folder, such as Chiaroscuro, Handshaking, Haircombing, Express Highways, Financial Panics, Israel, and Beards & Mustaches. In artfully overlapped compositions, only slices of the individual images are visible, each fragment suggesting its whole. Simon sees this extensive archive of images as the precursor to internet search engines. Such an unlikely futurity in the past is at the core of the Picture Collection. The digital is foreshadowed in the analogue, at the same time that history—its classifications, its contents—seems the stuff of projection.⁠ ⁠ Simon spent years sifting through letters, memos and records that reveal an untold story between the library and artists, media, government and a broader public. These documents also divulge the removal and transfer of photographs from the democratically circulating picture-collection folders to the photography collection in the late 1980s when their marketplace value became apparent. Simon’s selection of photographs from these transfers highlights gender, immigration, race and economy in America alongside the technical development of photography.⁠ ⁠ Produced in direct collaboration with the artist, the book contains 57 individually hand tipped-in plates, numerous gatefolds and a variety of unique papers, as well as essays by @joshuachuang & @timgriffinnyc⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #tarynsimon #colorofafleaseye #nyplpicturecollection https://www.instagram.com/p/CSXB0XVMoXB/?utm_medium=tumblr

[eliznhunt]

Tis the time to prep new ideas for my digital media class... I'm thinking to practice tools in photoshop to have them use steroscope images to create crazy worlds via the NY Public Archives digital archives. #newassingment #collage #nyplpicturecollection #steroscope #photoshop #backtoschool #springinoz (at Oswego, New York)

[geejae42]

“"Because,” she said as she pulled the cork out of the bottle. “Her voice sounds like boiled honey being poured through a bucket of gravel. It’s real music. That stuff you’re listening to? That’s not music. It’s a brand brought to you by big bucks and auto-tune.” “Well,” he said sheepishly, “you’re entitled to your opinion.” “As are you,” she said. “But matters of right and wrong are objective. They are not matters of opinion. And in this case, I’m right and you’re wrong.” 🔥🍯#flashfictionnypl" by @nyplpicturecollection on Instagram http://ift.tt/1RKMrf9