A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to go to the NY MOMA with my husband, my mother, and my lovely friend Arlene. Getting to soak in contemporary fine art photography is a great experience alone. Sharing the experience with loved ones is phenomenal. You should really go do it ASAP.
Below are some of the highlights from the show Being: New Photography 2018. The exhibition questions what it means to be human. How are we perceived? How do we perceive others? Included works used both figurative representations and images without a human body at all to explore these questions.
While perusing these images, think about what personhood means to you, both personally and culturally, as well as what these selections from the exhibition suggest on the subject of being.
Being: New Photography 2018 will be open until August 19 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Aïda Muluneh (Ethiopian, born 1974), All in One, 2016. Pigmented inkjet print.
Aïda Muluneh (Ethiopian, born 1974), The Departure, 2016. Pigmented inkjet print.
Em Rooney (American, born 1983), Veronica’s Horror, 2017. Steel, book, and hand-colored gelatin silver print.
Em Rooney (American, born 1983), After the March, 2017. Gelatin silver print, notebook paper, and steel.
Carmen Winant (American, born 1983), selection from My Birth, 2018. Found images and tape.
Harold Mendez, (American, born 1977), Sin nombre, 2017-18. Cotton, graphite, spray enamel, toner, and lithographic crayon on ball-grained aluminum lithographic plate mounted on dibond.
B. Ingrid Olson (American, born 1987), . UV-printed MDF, PVA size, Plexiglass, screws.
Joanna Piotrowska (Polish, born 1985), XXXIII FROWST, 2013-14. Gelatin silver print.
Matthew Connors (American, born 1976), Mask in Reverse, 2016. Pigmented inkjet print.
Em Rooney (American, born 1983), Elliot, 2015. Hand-colored gelatin silver print in artist’s frame.
Huong Ngô (American, born Hong Kong 1979) and Hông-Ân Truong (American, born 1976), The opposite of looking is not invisibility. The opposite of yellow is not gold, 2016. Pigmented inkjet prints and laser-cut prints.
Shilpa Gupta (Indian, born 1976), Untitled, 2014. Pigmented inkjet prints in split frames.
Stephanie Syjuco (American, born 1974), Cargo Cults: Head Bundle, 2013-16. Pigmented inkjet print.
Stephanie Syjuco (American, born 1974), Cargo Cults: Basket Woman, 2013-16. Pigmented inkjet print.