Hunt by petebrook Leave a comment. In the summer of , I attempted to temporarily get out of my prison-photo-bubble and find out what people loved about photographs by asking them which of theirs they loved the least. Which did they wish to condemn to the trash-bin of history?
For two long weekends at Photoville , a couple of volunteers and I took submissions of embarrassing, forgetful, incriminating and emotionally-burdensome images.
Comprised of a little over images, TDOUP has been in permanent storage over the intervening 5-and-a-half years. The Past is Prologue traces the evolution of everyday photography from the late 19th century to Instagram. From the collections of Pete Brook, W. Featuring the works of Marcia Lippman and Cassandra Zampini. Does our discussion of what is good not also rely on a shared knowledge of what is bad, unwanted and unloved? TDOUP was built on a belief that vernacular photos and stories are as relevant as the stories attached to news-photo-exclusives and famous documentary images.
We create and circulate billions of images every day and we constantly employ choices consciously and subconsciously to share or pass over images. The interrelation of the images is as unpredictable as the motives for their original submission. The Depository Of Unwanted Photographs is an unpredictable interrogation of quality that crucially is made by the public, not by the dominant voices of those in the media or culture industries.
Which single photograph would you state, on the record, as unwanted? The costume works from her collection in this show range from high fashion dresses to low fashion pajamas. This is the first time that Hunt, a respected and prolific collector and writer in the field, has drawn from both for an exhibition. Marcia Lippman is a photographer, a teacher, a traveler, a collector, and a storyteller. Much of her work for four decades has explored the passage and residues of time along with the ephemeral nature of memory.
