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2013–14 Catalog
2013 - 2014 ,PHOTOGRAPHY 5TH EDITION Bachar Bachara Simon Belleau Molly M Brandt Ranran Fan Gregory Fitzsimmons Victoria Fried Henry Harris Gabriella Hileman Ayse Idil Dana Hee Yun Jang Stevie Raelynn Hyun Jung Jun Department Statement Clay Kerr Patricia Knope Brett Layne Luis Francisco We are a Photography Department, yet our vision is heterogeneous and not defined by the medium. We encourage students to develop strong conceptual leads in their work, and to experiment with a variety of media and methods, placing an emphasis on individual practice, research, and historical precedents. The Department prepares students to become independent, self-directed artists, scholars and citizens. Through our pedagogy, we establish a learning environment that values tough but respectful questioning and encourages creative subversion. This approach facilitates the process by which our students become active participants in the transformation of material and intellectual culture. The School’s open educational structure challenges students to take responsibility for their own learning within and across traditional disciplines. The photography department provides disciplinary rigor and depth for those students who want to specialize, but also offers a home to students who want to incorporate their understanding of photographic images and methods into a broader practice. Models of social engagement guide students to determine how they want to structure their own contributions to diverse local and global cultures. Our curriculum incorporates solid technical instruction in the service of student-initiated individual projects, emphasizing research methodologies to deepen students’ creative interests. At the School we are part of a tradition of critical thinking applied to one’s own work and that of peers, as well as to the world at large. Christopher Martinez Ryan McDonald Billy McGuinness Shala Miller Danielle Pearce Laís Pontes Arnon Rabin Carly Ries Rachel Sanfilippo Emily Simpson Sanaz Sohrabi Jessika Stocker Leonard Suryajaya Ian Vecchiotti Danielle Wakin Liu Wenli Nickki Woloshyn Hyounsang Yoo Fo r w a rd “The world now contains more photographs than bricks,” -John Szarkowski In this year’s edition of the SAIC Photography Department Catalogue, the concerns are unfounded, the vocabulary has been expanded and thus the ideas more nuanced. The broadening of options allow for a more exacting reading of the works. Cable releases are used not as defaults but as options to reinforce and question authorship. The square has a new reference which counteracts what “As the photographic industry became the refuge of all failed painters with too little talent, or too lazy to complete their studies, seems to be a haphazard crop and thus changes what seems to be the subject. The fact becomes metaphor. There is a more concerted this universal craze not only assumed the air of blind imbecile infatuation, but took on the aspect of revenge…the badly applied advances of inspection of image searching for clues about its origins - google satellite, street view, stock. The passport-like photographs that could be photography, like all purely material progress for that matter, have contributed to the impoverishment of French artistic genius.” seen as the closest photography comes to fact is shown to be just the opposite. I read the photographs and consider my role with them. -Charles Baudelaire Yes, I do read them as while I look at the images individually, I also search those in proximity for aid. The editors have reinforced the syntax of the medium by placement and rhythm. They have underpinned the riffs now visual, a product that could be fashion that reads There seem to be any number of quotations that have agonised over the unfathomable number and quality of photographs in the world. I attend lectures on the effects of new technologies - both in imaging and in dissemination - and how to come to terms with it also as portrait or form, the merging of the made and discovered. There are references to all ramifications of the medium and those who have used it - anonymous and famous. I am slowed, I review and then continue. There is still a celebration of the object. usually with a tone of resignation. I read articles on what these new technologies will do to the tradition of photography. Usually they are attempting to find some good in what is seen as a tsunami of changes to our basic assumptions about the medium. A reconciliation if not The second part of the Szarkowski quote seems to be always omitted. attempting to find a balance between acknowledgement and encouragement. “The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.” I am at ease, the feared cheapening of the medium hasn’t happened, in fact just the opposite. The haphazard brings awareness really an embracement is sought for the likes of Tumblr and Instagram. I attend faculty meetings to determine the extent of this incursion Personally I notice that while everyone seems to be photographing any number of subjects, I hardly ever see a camera. I see fewer people indirectly calling themselves photographers by using cameras rather than devices with cameras in them. to the tightly sequenced. The option of works in The Cloud, repositions not only the object but also allows for more control by the maker. But it is under control. While we the generation of film, seem to both be in awe and fear those of whom the time of Tri-X is as distant as the dinosaurs, these millennial photographers are doing quite fine. Despite all the fuss, nothing (major) has been I am reassured and excited. eliminated - relegated a bit perhaps, a niche maybe, perhaps a new role, but still an option. The medium has only grown with the “new” added to the “traditional”. New mash-ups are playing games with the syntax, archival pigmented print from a wet plate negative, a platinotype that saw its first light on a chip in a smart phone. I realise that the smart phone’s lineage is as much Leica as Diana and Instamatics. - Robert Clarke-Davis Victoria Fried Untitled Silver Gelatin Print 8” x 10” 2013 Carly Ries Jonathan, Lake Superior Archival Pigment Print 12” x 18” 2013 Ryan McDonald Untitled Archival Pigment Print 24” x 30” 2013 Molly Brandt Palimpsest Laser Print Adhered to Wall 8’ x 12’ 2013 Emily Simpson Palm Archival Pigment Print 18” x 24” 2013 Billy McGuinness Tamms Archival Pigment Print 34” x 34” 2013 Laís Pontes Artist and Amber Born Now Here Photography 14” x 21” 2013 Danielle Wakin Untitled Archival Pigment Print 13”x13” 2013 Billy McGuinness Edgewater Glen Archival Pigment Print 34” x 34” 2013 Ranran Fan Last Word/s: Pitching Archival Pigment Print 8” x 7.9” 2013 Emily Simpson Pile Archival Pigment Print 18” x 24” 2013 Christopher Sonny Martinez Rendition Chromogenic Print 11” x 17” 2013 Gabriella Hileman Pink Monolith Archival Pigment Print 12” x 8” 2013 Ryan McDonald Untitled Archival Pigment Print 24” x 30”, 2013 Bachar Bachara Grounds Gelatin Silver Print 16” x 20” 2011 Bachar Bachara Grounds Gelatin Silver Print 16” x 20” 2011 Billy McGuinness Soup Kitchen Nebula Archival Pigment Print 48” x 36” 2013 Danielle Wakin Untitled Archival Pigment Print 13”x13” 2013 Simon Belleau World Without Sun (The engine #1) Video Still 2013 Patricia Knope Reflections Archival Pigment Print 11” x 14” 2013 Brett Layne Dad Archival Pigment Print 60” x 40” 2013 Dana Hee Yun Jang Presence of Light: Zero Point Chicago #5 Chromogenic Color Print 17” x 25” 2013 Gabriella Hileman Fog Study Archival Pigment Print 9” x 14.3” 2013 Wenli Liu Beyond Dream Archival Pigment Print 16” x 20” 2013 Arnon Rabin Untitled Archival Pigment Print 11.7” x 15.5” 2013 Hyounsang Yoo Untitled Archival Pigment Print 30” x 45” 2013 Ranran Fan Last Word/s: Fall Archival Pigment Print 3” x 4.5” 2013 Leonard Suryajaya Tori Archival Pigment Print 40” x 50” 2013 Leonard Suryajaya Lenore and Sara Archival Pigment Print 40” x 50” 2013 Carly Ries She drinks from the cups of beautiful women Archival Pigment Print 12” x 18” 2013 Ayse Idil Untitled Marble Bust #2 Archival Pigment Print 16” x 20” 2013 Clay Kerr Raven Archival Pigment Print 11” x 16.5” 2013 Luis Francisco Untitled 03 (Around E. Grandfield Blvd and S. Wabash Ave) Archival Pigment Print 60” x 78” 2013 Danielle Pearce Grandma’s House Photography 17” x 17” 2014 Danielle Pearce Grandma’s House Photography 17” x 17” 2014 Clay Kerr Testosterone Archival Pigment Print 11” x 16.5” 2013 Emily Simpson Untitled Archival Pigment Print 24” x 30” 2013 Rachel Sanfilippo Daughter of Hera Archival Pigment Print 36” x 24” 2013 Wenli Liu Among Silence Archival Pigment Print 16” x 20” 2013 Nikki Woloshyn All of Our Plants in My Mother’s Room Archival Pigment Print 30” x 40” 2013 Ranran Fan Last Word/s: Crush Archival Pigment Print 3” x 4.5” 2013 Hyun Jung Jun Black Lemon Archival Pigment Print 17” x 23” 2013 Ian Vecchiotti Flower Shop C-Print 30” x 42” 2013 Luis Francisco Untitled Archival Pigment Print 17” x 22” 2013 Christopher Sonny Martinez Discreet Aroma Archival Pigment Print 11” x 17” 2013 Gregory Fitzsimmons In security One Archival Pigment Print 40” x 120” 2013 Hyun Jung Jun Untitled (two steamers and four light bulbs) Archival Pigment Print 17” x 23” 2013 Shala Miller Untitled Archival Pigment Print 20.5v” x 13.6” 2013 Stevie Raelynn Hers Archival Pigment Print 34” x 44” 2013 Ranran Fan Last Word/s: Intersection Archival Pigment Print 9” x 5.6” 2013 Jessika Stocker Sky//Sky Archival Pigment Print 30” x 34” 2013 Photography, Edition Five Copyright © 2014. Ashley Limón Arndís Ýr Otharsson Tewosret Vaughn All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Danielle Wakin Untitled Archival Pigment Print 13” x 13” 2013 Carly Ries Sway Archival Pigment Print 16” x 20” 2013 Simon Belleau Study of Gravity #1 Archival Pigment Print 17” x 22” 2013 Henry Harris Homestead / Outlot Archival Pigment Print 6x7 Framing; Dimensions Variable 2013 Sanaz Sohrabi Untitled #4 Archival Pigment Print 30” x 50” 2013 No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwiszvve without the written permission of the copyright holder. All images used by permission of the artist. All other rights in and to such images are reserved. Special Thank You To: Aimée Beaubien Robert Clarke-Davis Barbara DeGenevieve Emerson Granillo Mayumi Lake Oli Rodriguez Matthew Siber Catalog Committee Ashley Limón Arndís Ýr Otharsson Tewosret Vaughn
