MoMA is presenting its annual autumn selection of contemporary photographers who represent the current diversity of the medium. This month, five artists selected by the curator Eva Respini share the billing: Michele Abeles, a specialist in patchworks combining images of objects with male nudes; Anne Collier, who makes conceptual compositions resembling commercial photographs; Zoe Crosher, who rearranged the archives of the self-portrait photographer Michelle Dubois; and Shirana Shabazi, whose stylistically eclectic photographs represent the diversity in the production and circulation of photographs today.
Perhaps the most remarkable series on display is by the Chinese duo, Birdhead, even if its documentary approach is fairly conventional. Ji Weiyu and Song Tao searched Shanghai for the modern reality of its citizens, taking photographs of the daily lives of their friends and families that will catch the attention of the Facebook generation. What the series lacks in technique is made up by its poetry. The photographs hanging on the walls of the Robert and Joyce Menschel room, some in color and others in black and white, offer a clear idea of the visual languages available to today’s younger generations of photographers.
Jonas Cuénin
New Photography 2012 : Michele Abeles, Birdhead, Anne Collier, Zoe Crosher, Shirana Shahbazi
Until February 4th, 2013
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