#susan bright

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Princeton University Art Museum

Open, 11 May, 2024

Curated by Susan Bright and Susannah Baker-Smith

Touch

Images of Human Contact Frame a New Exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum | Princeton University Art Museum

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-Panel discussion held at The AIPAD Photography Show New York on Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 6 p.m.

An insider’s look at contemporary photography today – with leading AIPAD experts – examines trends from digital photography to new media.

Moderator: Susan Bright, Independent Curator and Writer, New York / Panelists: Kim Bourus, Higher Pictures, New York; Martin McNamara, Gallery 339 Fine Art Photography, Philadelphia; Andrea Meislin, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York; Robert Morat, Robert Morat Galerie, Hamburg, Germany; Bryce Wolkowitz, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York-

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Photographer Nan Goldin speaks candidly with Observer and The Guardian writer Sean O'Hagan about a troubled and traumatic past, teenage angst, and new work.

"Her ideas infuse all new work that deals with close family members, friends or ideas of community. She gave legitimacy to an approach that has crudely been adopted and understood as "snapshot style" or "diaristic". I would go as far as to say her work has come to represent an entire style." - Curator Susan Bright.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/mar/23/nan-goldin-photographer-wanted-get-high-early-age#start-of-comments

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Susan Bright was asked by The Photographers' Gallery to curate a show based on her new book, Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood. She wrote the introduction to Issue 1 and she has been a dear friend of ours since. I also maintain her website—a fair tradeoff for her writing!

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Writer and curator Susan Bright shares her YouTube picks focused on music videos created by notable artists, such as William Wegman's video for New Order's "Blue Monday" and Roger Ballen's video for Die Antwoord's "I Fink U Freeky."

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Art Photography Now – Review

Art Photography Now by Susan Bright

Thames and Hudson 2005

This book is ideal for the intermediate to advanced photographer; it contains some of the history about different genres of photography mixed with formal text. It explores how meanings of photos can chance depending on their context, this will reflect in the photographer’s own work to develop it further. Information is given about each artist and their work, and then the artist describes their work in their own words to give a more personal view. A lot of visual examples are used to illustrate the text so it is not to hard going on the reader.

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A still from Die Antwoord's video I Fink U Freeky directed by Ninja and Roger Ballen (photo: Roger Ballen)

As long as music videos have existed, prominent photographers have dabbled in the medium. Susan Bright writes about some of her favorite photographers-turned-directors in time for the launch of MOCA TV, a new initiative by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.

Read the story and see more photos here.

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Photography and the art world

http://www.intelligencesquared.com/past-live-events/2012/event/photography-art-world

A video of the panel discussion that took place at this event will be available soon and I will update this post then.

This sold out discussion took place at Saatchi Gallery in London on 25th April 2012. Full video will be available on this page soon. In 2010 the artist-photographer Paul Graham delivered a blistering presentation to the MoMA Photography Forum in which he said that "there remains a sizeable part of the art world that simply does not get photography". Intelligence² recently ran a debate on the topic: "Photography will always be a lesser medium than paint." At the 2011 Deutsche Borse Photography Prize there was outrage from certain quarters that the documentary photographer Jim Goldberg should be on the same shortlist as Thomas Demand and Elad Lassry. So why is it that there is still this complicated, rivalrous relationship between the worlds of art and photography? Why is photography still referred to in a semi-derogatory way? What is it about photography that makes it, for some people, inherently of less worth when held up against other art mediums? Are photographers such as Walker Evans and Diane Arbus really lesser artists than their painter contemporaries, Mark Rothko and Ellsworth Kelly respectively? This event, organised to launch the Saatchi Gallery's major photography exhibition Out of Focus, comes at a time when the world of photography is going through one of its richest and also most challenging moments. Traditional boundaries between various territories within the world of photography – fashion, documentary, advertising and art – are blurring into one another in unexpected, exciting and not always tension-free ways; in some people's eyes 'straight' photography is being usurped by conceptual photography; and with that, even the labels 'artist' and 'photographer' are the subject of debate. During this discussion photographers Mitch Epstein and Hannah Starkey will join writer Geoff Dyer and curator Susan Bright to explore the relationship between art and photography. They will attempt to define what it is that is unique about photography and the creative act of making a photograph, and enlarge the way we view the world of visual art.