The Museum of Modern Art's annual New Image series, held from September 2022 to January 2012, seeks to showcase the diversity and internationality of contemporary photography. The different photography skills and backgrounds of the six photographers participating in this exhibition reflect the diversity of today's photographic art. Moira Davey optically incorporates stamps, postmarks and mailing addresses into each photograph, George Georgiou documents the preservation of national traditions and natural landscapes in modern Turkey amid Westernization and popular culture, Deanna Lawson Focusing on expressing the physical movements and different experiences of African-Americans from all walks of life, Doug Richard captured the decadent street scenes of American cities in Google Maps on the computer without leaving home, and Vivian Sassen reproduced her Dreams and childhood experiences of growing up in Kenya, Zhang Dali reviewed Mao Zedong's propaganda images during the "Great Leap Forward" and "Cultural Revolution" periods using archives, books and periodicals as raw materials. These photographers recorded the world from different perspectives and expressed in different ways, realizing a dynamic union.
Moira Davey (born 1958, Canadian) studied at Concadia University in Montreal and the University of California, San Diego, and now lives in New York, working as a photographer in the library of the Museum of Modern Art. A book titled "Coffee, Coffee" reminds her of writing "Coffee Shop, Library" in her notebook, and some of the photos in this exhibition are titled. Each photo has an area of small green squares that David folded and mailed to a friend, so there will be stamps, postmarks and addresses, and even creases and rips, which are human touch marks, which today The age of electronic communication has been rare. She connects the café and the library, two public places that provide comfortable private spaces and physical and mental sustenance.
George. Georgiou (b. 1961, British) became a freelance photographer after graduating with a BA in Photography from Central London Technical School. Much of his work has been shot in Eastern Europe and Turkey, with most of the last five years in Istanbul. During his travels in Turkey, he documents the city's efforts to preserve traditions and natural landscapes in the face of change and development. Focusing on everyday life, his photographs explore differences between East and West, national identity, the conflict between modernization and urbanization and rising nationalism and religion in Turkey. Turkey is at the crossroads of political and economic development after a contentious election and its bid to join the European Union. Georgiou seeks to capture the shadow of imperial power in its establishment of a 21st-century national identity.
Diana. Lawson (born in 1979, American) received his MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2004 and now lives and works in New York. Lawson sees her subjects as family, albeit not by blood. In fact, they were strangers, and it was the photos that brought each other into contact and became close. The photographer sketches on paper before taking the photo. Her work reflects traditional Western and African styles of portraiture, digging into body language that reveals personal social experiences. She lets the subjects pose different letter patterns with their limbs, showing the infinite diversity of people. The photos show the closeness of the characters while also reflecting the confrontation between them. The spectator is introduced into the world of the characters in the photograph, but only bystanders.
Doug Richard (born 1968, American) studied history and sociology at the University of California, San Diego, before switching to photography. His photos focus on American cities with high unemployment and few educational opportunities. During the virtual trip, Richard used Google Maps' Street View feature to select street views of a large number of outlying cities. After careful screening, the pictures in the computer were taken with a digital camera, processed into a panoramic form, and the Google watermark was removed. These photos reflect the issues of poverty and racial equality in the United States, as well as the regulation of online pictures and the protection of personal privacy.
Vivian Sassen (b. 1972, Dutch) studied fashion design and photography, and obtained a Master of Fine Arts from the Academy of Arts in Arnhem, The Netherlands. She spent three years in Kenya as a child, where her life experiences had a profound impact on her. When she returned to the Netherlands in 1978, she didn't even feel like she belonged in Europe. At the age of 16, he returned to Kenya and has since stayed in Africa to work and live. Her photography subjects are mainly derived from dreams and her experiences in Africa, recreating the surreal scenes in dreams, and at the same time allowing viewers to follow her to regain childhood memories.
Surprisingly, Chinese photographers also appeared in this exhibition. Zhang Dali (born in 1963, Chinese) graduated from the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts (now the Academy of Arts and Design of Tsinghua University), and is now engaged in art work in Beijing. He reproduces history in original archival materials, such as books, periodicals and other print media, embodying the important role that photography played in state propaganda during the Mao era. At the time, these profile pictures needed to be reviewed, retouched, and repainted before they appeared in the media. He combined these archive pictures to shoot, trying to highlight the political and artistic effects of these historical pictures.
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