Pick It Up, Turn It Over: Exploring the Power of the Physical Photograph
Pick It Up, Turn It Over is rooted in the unrealized potential of the back of the traditional photograph. While at times it’s a space for personal notes about enlarger settings, contrast filters, exposure times, or the characters and setting of a cherished family photograph, the back of the photo has the capacity to reshape its story through dialogue with its front image and requires a spatial interaction with its viewers.
Selected photographers create lens-based, light-based works of art that push beyond the ubiquity of screen-based imagery. By exploring the potential of photographic works that spotlight both their pictorial subject and their physical presence as objects, their creations will remind viewers of the significance of photography as both an image and talisman-making medium.
The resultant works utilize display strategies to reinforce the notion that a photograph exists in the world, accumulating the history that attaches to all things that take up space. Pick It Up, Turn It Over reinforces the reality that tangible images have more than one side, expand and bend into three dimensions, and are printed onto something that had a history before it became a surface.
Venue Details
Manifest Drawing Center
3464 Central Pkwy
Cincinnati, OH 45223
(513) 861-3638
Tues–Sat 10am–2pm
Free to the Public
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