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“I’m always thinking about what’s being revealed and what’s being withheld and how this shapes our understanding of what we behold. Overall, I am learning to sit with and learn from the unknown.” @26thletter as told to @hatzack. Thanks @artforum!! #zalikaazim #artforum #workspaceresident2018 #baxterstccny #photography #nyc
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Two weeks ago, we had the pleasure of hosting a conversation between @26thletter and @debwillisphoto. They talked about the potential for stories that emerge from documenting migration, placemaking, memory, and family archives. The video of that conversation is now available on our website! (Link in bio.) #zalikaazim #debwillis #inconversation #nyutisch #workspaceresident2018 #baxterstccny #photography #nyc
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Did you know that Baxter St has a small library of monographs, photo books, and zines? Exhibiting artists now curate a selection of those books, on view to all visitors. Above are @sammargevicius' selections, which he discussed during his @10x10photobooks takeover last month. Come see Sam's books and 'Twenty-six' before it closes this Thursday! #sammargevicius #twentysix #10x10photobooks #baxterstlibrary #baxterstccny #photography #nyc
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Thank you @jrockfoto for featuring Zalika on the @bhphoto #whatisphotography series! Don’t miss Zalika’s last Coffee Talk this Saturday 4/6 at 4:30pm! #Repost @jrockfoto ・・・ “Photographs are conduits—the singular voice contributing to the collective—they offer up space to look deeply at ourselves and the world around us.” This is part of what Zalika Azim @26thletter commented on photography for our #whatisphotography series on @bhphoto Check the link in bio for the full quote and many other wonderful portraits by @cory.rice 👉👉👉👉Zalika’s current exhibit, which blends found and family photos with medium format landscape work to create a meditation on memory, family and history. See her show at the great Baxter Street Camera Club in NYC @baxterstccny through April 13. #zalikaazim #baxterstreetcameraclub #memory #artphotography #portraitphotography #southcarolina #foundphoto #archival #bhphotopodcast
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2018 exhibiting artist Ivan Forde will be exhibiting cyanotype-based works, both new and including some seen in "Dense Lightness" (curated by @anna1harsanyi) at @aipadphoto this week. Find his work at @desoto Booth 906 until Sunday! @workdaily Image: 'Encounter', 2016; Courtesy of De Soto Gallery. #ivanforde #denselightness #baxterstccny #aipadphoto2019 #photography #nyc
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"I think that it’s the act of viewing and deciding to read pictures in a way where you’re really looking into and trying to pull meaning out of it. Reading is a creative act that requires a lot of filling in blanks." From a recent conversation between artist Sam Margevicius and Beau Torres about 'Twenty-six', on display at the 128 Baxter St Project Space until April 11th. Head to our website for the rest of their discussion! Installation Image by Olympia Shannon #sammargevicius #beautorres #twentysix #baxterstccny #nyc #photography @sammargevicius @dotbeau
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Sam Margevicius and Beau Torres on Twenty-Six
The following text comes from a conversation between Sam Margevicius and Beau Torres about the exhibition Twenty-six. They spoke over coffee at Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York on February 4th, 2019. Installation Sam Margevicius: I call this an installation piece because it’s not reproducible. When I show someone one of these
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"I became more interested in how we make our private lives public and how much of ourselves is influenced by public histories." @elliottjeromebrownjr From Muri Assunção's critical essay "Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. and the Paradoxes of Representation", now available on our website. @muriassuncao #asimplesong #elliottjeromebrownjr #workspaceresident2018 #muriassuncao #representationmatters #photography #nyc #baxterstccny
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Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. and the Paradoxes of Representation
Author Ralph Ellison prefaces his 1952 novel “Invisible Man” with a matter-of-fact explanation for the narrator’s invisibility: “I am an invisible man,” the story begins. Not in a literal way, as the Invisible Man from H.G. Wells’s 1897 sci-fi novella, or not due to a “bio-chemical accident to my epidermis,” either. His invisibility occurs, he