Eastman Museum: A Matter of Memory
By Mandy Litwin
The
Eastman Museum located in New York that is named after famous photographer
George Eastman. The Eastman Museum, opened in 1949, is known for their grand
collections of photography and cinema. They host many exhibitions each year
with a wide range of work including photography, cinema, and other works
concerning technology.
One
exhibition that took place at the end of 2016 was called A Matter of Memory: Photography as Object in a Digital Age. It
discusses the that fact that much of the photographic images we see today are
digital and not physically tangible. It also touches on how our relationship to
memory is changing with a constant exposure to images, quite literally every
day of our lives. Artists involved in this exhibition produce work that relate
to this idea of memory.
One
artist in particular is Jason Lazarus. He is a conceptual and experimental
photographer. For his series titled “The Rickshaw”, he used played with the
idea of a photo as a physical object in a unique way. One piece installed in
the gallery mimics the LED lights that are often found framing storefronts in
his hometown of Tampa, Florida. Though businesses may have gone under, the
lights remain lit, outlining these voids. They symbolize what once was. His
other pieces touch on similar ideas.
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