Black White Photography - UK (2019-11)

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B+W

ANDOVER

Addison Gallery of American Art

Until 5 January

Men of Steel, Women of Wonder

addison.andover.edu

BROOKLYN

Brooklyn Museum

Until 3 May

JR Chronicles

brooklynmuseum.org

CHICAGO

Catherine Edelman Gallery

Until 4 January

Robert & Shana Parke Harrison

edelmangallery.com

CINCINNATI

Cincinnati Art Museum

Until 2 February

Sohrab Hura: The Levee

cincinnatiartmuseum.org

FORT WORTH

Amon Carter Museum

of American Art

Until 29 December

Gordon Parks: Early Work 1940-1950

cartermuseum.org

HOUSTON

Catherine Couturier Gallery

Until 11 January

Deck the Walls

catherinecouturier.com

LOS ANGELES

Getty Center

Until 5 January

In Focus: The Camera

getty.edu

RIVERSIDE

California Museum

of Photography at UCRARTS

Until 2 February

Robert Cumming

ucrarts.ucr.edu

STANFORD

Cantor Arts Center

Until 6 January

Edward Weston, Ansel Adams

museum.standford.edu

EXHIBITIONS

USA

All images © Paul Thulin

Ode to Irving. Six Stars.

emphasise wonder and mystery
as well as a sense of time travel
or rather time compression.
‘Individuals and the land exist
in a shared perpetual present
rather than a clearly identifiable
past, present and future,’ he
says. ‘The images are framed in
a way as to support symbolic
and material associations that
resonate with mythologies and
formal relationships far more
expansive than was revealed
in the straight, historical
documentation of family.’
This striking book
interweaves colour and black &
white imagery created by a
variety of cameras including a
Kodak Vest Pocket Autographic,
Calumet 4x5 and a digital
Hasselblad. The inspiration for
the book design was influenced
by the image layout found in his
grandfather’s Maine family
albums, which included B&W
prints spanning several decades
to post-1970s colour images
including all types of photo
papers. ‘The albums are records
of family, but are also an archive
of the materiality and
presentation of vernacular
photography from 1911-1991.
The photos are organised but
are also layering each other,
coming loose over time, getting
mixed up and misplaced. There
are cryptic notes thrown in the
mix,’ he says. ‘I wanted Pine Tree
Ballads to have this material

sense of order and disorder

because I think it is ultimately

a structure that seems familiar

when looking at family

photographs, especially in the

analogue era.’

Thulin lives in Richmond,

Virginia, and is an assistant

professor and graduate director

in the department of

photography and film at

VCUarts. For the past three

years he has been working on a

docu-literary photography

project entitled Isla de Las

Palmas that explores the cultural

and historical complexities of

Puerto Rican identity.

paulthulin.com

candelabooks.com

Memoriam She Walks With Her Shawl.