Joel Smith

Considers how photographic images of buildings reflect the passage of time through an exhibition held at the Princeton University Art Museum in 2011.

"As flowers, kittens, fish, frogs, X-rays and shadows leave their fleeting marks on photographic paper, Kunie Sugiura transforms them into stunning works of art that echo stone-age cave paintings and the traditional Japanese arts of object arrangement just as much as 20th century minimalism and the body art of Yves Klein and Robert Rauschenberg.". "Her photograms and photogrammatic sculptures are extremely startling, because, unlike their near relative, the traditional photograph, they are both not-here and here, not-now and now. By deliberately turning back the clock to the earliest era in photo history, Sugiura reminds us of the fragile, slight foundation upon which the triumph of the reproductive regime rests. While the photogram has been superseded by an ever-expanding arsenal of photographic equipment, it continues to express, as no camera image can, photography's audacity in annexing the elemental truths told by the sun. Color reproductions and essays by Bill Arning and Joel Smith evoke the magic of Sugiura's work like the fading imprint of a lily's shadow."--BOOK JACKET.

Explains how the number one can refer to a single item, the two shoes in a pair, the seven days in a week, the twelve eggs in a dozen, all the trees in a forest, and much more.

"Since the early 1960s Duane Michals has been known for photographic sequences and inscribed photographs that explore emotional, conceptual, and cosmic topics beyond the grasp of the lone camera image. He has written in the margins of his prints, created sequences of images that explore intangible human dilemmas (doubt, mortality, desire), and derived poetic effects from technical errors such as double exposure and motion blur. This publication, accompanying an exhibition of the same title at the Morgan Library & Museum, includes an interview between Duane Michals and the Morgan's Richard L. Menschel Curator, Joel Smith, as well as pairings of Michals's work with pieces from the Morgan's collection"--