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Posted on October 20, 2019

Primary Source
67 Various Photographers
October 20 – September 12, 2020

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  • A cab driver passes a large wall mural of a women opens IMAGE file
    © Bill Chapman
  • subway train and passengers opens IMAGE file
    © Joy Bush
  • Man at window with reflection of outside opens IMAGE file
    © Susan Lirakis
  • Building
    © Gioia Kuss
  • People sitting on a street with Uncle Sam walking by opens IMAGE file
    © Erin Carey
  • People waling by a mural of people walking opens IMAGE file
    © Judith Montminy
  • Man with wild, curly hair looking at a woman with wild, crazy hair opens IMAGE file
    © Mara Zaslove
  • People cheering, watching
    © Edward Boches
  • Boy in front of pictures of boys
    © Kev Filmore
  • People watching opens IMAGE file
    © Tony Schwartz
  • People marching opens IMAGE file
    © Dawn Colsia
  • Young child walking with man holding her hand
    © Charlyn Zlotnik
  • People walking and other people looking at them
    © Mildred Alpern
  • Man whose face is covered in smoke
    © Alex Djorjevic
  • Woman eating cotton candy with clouds that look like cotton candy opens IMAGE file
    © Sally Bousquet
  • Young woman in bathing cap and goggles
    © James Lattanzio
  • Man with turban and yellow powder on his forehead opens IMAGE file
    © Richard Dweck
  • Man next to a window that shows his reflection opens IMAGE file
    © Katherine Richmond
  • People standing on a dock in a pool
    © Neelakantan Sunder
  • Man sitting in a room with many things opens IMAGE file
    © Michal Greenboim
  • Man cooking an egg opens IMAGE file
    © Allison Dinner
  • group of women
    © Carole Glauber
  • water relecting the shadowns of people standing next to it
    © Leslie Jean-Bart
  • Rock and person opens IMAGE file
    © Ruth Nelson
  • Seashells and a note opens IMAGE file
    © Davida Carta
  • Wall with green board falling off it opens IMAGE file
    © Mike Zeis
  • Boy with superman cape on writing on a blackboard opens IMAGE file
    © Jamie Johnson
  • Handwritten note
    © Jane Paradise
  • Group of women around a dead woman opens IMAGE file
    © Carson Barnes
  • Dead man with hand putting flowers on him
    © Diane Fenster
  • Orthodox Jews opens IMAGE file
    © Marcia Lloyd
  • water and sand
    ©Sara Silks
  • Ceiling opens IMAGE file
    © Anne-Laure Autin
  • trees
    © David Anderson
  • handwritten note opens IMAGE file
    © Yvette Meltzer
  • Cabin in the woods opens IMAGE file
    © Joanne Zeis
  • two woman in boots
    © Lee Cott
  • Deer in front of a modern building opens IMAGE file
    © Yoko Ishi
  • two men and superwoman waiting on a bench
    © Inna Valin
  • Man standing on a platform in front of silos opens IMAGE file
    © Bruce Magnuson
  • Trees opens IMAGE file
    © Scott Gordon
  • Clown riding a sheep opens IMAGE file
    © Dianne Yudelson
  • Man holding a baby shooting a gun in the air opens IMAGE file
    © Annie Claflin
  • Man in a car in a parade followed by a steer
    © Sandy Hill
  • Two hearts made in the snow by tires opens IMAGE file
    © Olga Merrill
  • People in a pickup truck with American flag and Confederate flag opens IMAGE file
    © Sally Chapman
  • Person standing with another person behind looking under a car hood opens IMAGE file
    © Silke Hase
  • Two women looking a a car sinking into the ocean opens IMAGE file
    © Joni Lohr
  • Man looking at a ship passing opens IMAGE file
    © Roger Archibald
  • Group of people watching huge waves come in opens IMAGE file
    © Ken Kartes
  • Huge waves coming in towards houses opens IMAGE file
    © Law Hamilton
  • Animals in pitch dark opens IMAGE file
    © Sunjoo Lee
  • Volcano opens IMAGE file
    © Vicky Stromee
  • Water coming into rocks
    © Valerie Burke
  • Field of sunflowers opens IMAGE file
    © Amy Kanka Valadarsky
  • Trees opens IMAGE file
    © Vicki Margulies
  • Trees opens IMAGE file
    © Marcy Juran
  • Person holding a snake and wearing a snake tee shirt opens IMAGE file
    © Meg Birnbaum
  • Person holding a fishing rod with fish in the background opens IMAGE file
    © Jan Arrigo
  • Hands hold a picture of a woman holding a bowl of pasta opens IMAGE file
    © Donna Tramontozzi
  • Dove statues on a black bag opens IMAGE file
    © Steven Gentile
  • Abstract opens IMAGE file
    © Zachary Stephens
  • Hospital bands lined up
    © Nancy Nichols
  • Stone path opens IMAGE file
    © Karen.Bell
  • Ear buds opens IMAGE file
    © Bree Lamb
  • boy playing video game wearing tshirt that says illusion
    © Lauren Grabelle
  • Blue abstract opens IMAGE file
    © Sam Scoggins

Primary Sources are documents that were created by witnesses or first recorders of events. We’ve come to expect that photographs are reliable and reveal the truth about moments in time. It has been said that photographs do not lie, however we all know they can. But so can a written record. A photograph can be altered through manual and digital means. The validity of a photo can also be changed to communicate a photographer’s point of view rather than the reality of the situation. A subject in a photograph may have alternative motives for being photographed. Photographs taken for marketing purposes are meant to influence public opinion and behavior rather than truth-tell.

This exhibition was meant to depict the photograph as document or as proof to phenomena or  happenings. The photographer was meant to be seen as witness. I asked the submitters to interpret that instruction fluidly. Was I only  interested in documentary photography? That was one way to answer this call. I asked them, however, to use their imaginations to come up with answers to my query. It is your responsibility, dear viewer, to determine fact or fiction in these 67 primary source materials.

The 67 photo chroniclers are:
Mildred Alpern
David Anderson
Roger Archibald
Jan Arrigo
Anne-Laure Autin
Carson Barnes
Karen Bell
Meg Birnbaum
Edward Boches
Sally Bousquet
Valerie Burke
Joy Bush
Erin Carey
Davida Carta
Bill Chapman
Sally Chapman
Annie Claflin
Dawn Colsia
Lee Cott
Allison Dinner
Alex Djordjevic
Richard Dweck
Diane Fenster
Kev Filmore
Carole Glauber
Steven Gentile
Scott Gordon
Lauren Grabelle
Michal Greenboim
Law Hamilton
Silke Hase
Sandy Hill
Yoko Ishii
Leslie Jean-Bart
Jamie Johnson
Marcy Juran
Amy Kanka Valadarsky
Ken Kartes
Gioia Kuss
Bree Lamb
James Lattanzio
Sunjoo Lee
Susan Lirakis
Marcia Lloyd
Joni Lohr
Bruce Magnuson
Vicki Margulies
Olga Merrill
Yvette Meltzer
Judith Montminy
Ruth Nelson
Nancy Nichols
Jane Paradise
Katherine Richmond
Tony Schwartz
Sam Scoggins
Sara Silks
Zachary Stephens
Vicky Stromee
Neelakantan Sunder
Donna  Tramontozzi
Inna Valin
Dianne Yudelson
Mara Zaslove
Joanne Zeis
Mike Zeis
Charlyn Zlotnik

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Amy Rindskopf's Terra Novus

At the market, I pick each one up, pulled in by the shapes as they sit together, waiting. I feel its heft in my hand, enjoy the textures of the skin or peel, and begin to look closer and closer. The patterns on each individual surface marks them as distinct. I push further still, discovering territory unseen by the casual observer, a new land. I am like a satellite orbiting a distant planet, taking the first-ever images of this newly envisioned place.

This project started as an homage to Edward Weston’s Pepper No. 30 (I am, ironically, allergic to peppers). As I looked for my subject matter at the market, I found that I wasn’t drawn to just one single fruit or vegetable. There were so many choices, appealing to both hand and eye. I decided to print in black and white to help make the images visually more about the shapes, and not about guessing which fruit is smoothest, which vegetable is greenest.

Artistic Purpose/Intent

Artistic Purpose/Intent

Tricia Gahagan

 

Photography has been paramount in my personal path of healing from disease and

connecting with consciousness. The intention of my work is to overcome the limits of the

mind and engage the spirit. Like a Zen koan, my images are paradoxes hidden in plain

sight. They are intended to be sat with meditatively, eventually revealing greater truths

about the world and about one’s self.

 

John Chervinsky’s photography is a testament to pensive work without simple answers;

it connects by encouraging discovery and altering perspectives. I see this scholarship

as a potential to continue his legacy and evolve the boundaries of how photography can

explore the human condition.

 

Growing my artistic skill and voice as an emerging photographer is critical, I see this as

a rare opportunity to strengthen my foundation and transition towards an established

and influential future. I am thirsty to engage viewers and provide a transformative

experience through my work. I have been honing my current project and building a plan

for its complete execution. The incredible Griffin community of mentors and the

generous funds would be instrumental for its development. I deeply recognize the

hallmark moment this could be for the introduction of the work. Thank you for providing

this incredible opportunity for budding visions and artists that know they have something

greater to share with the world.

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