Haines Gallery (San Francisco) is presenting a solo installation of Kota Ezawa’s “The History of Photography Remix”. This installation includes a continuous 35mm slide projection of 40 images and in addition light boxes that reference the original slide. “The History of Photography Remix” explores our photographic history drawing iconic images from art, magazines, newspapers, and politics. Including both seminal works by important figures in the development of the photographic medium and potent photojournalistic moments, Ezawa recreates images by photographers such as Ansel Adams, Garry Winogrand, Diane Arbus, Robert Mapplethorpe and Cindy Sherman into recognizable yet reconstructed versions of the original photograph. These images are juxtaposed with unforgettable moments captured journalistically such as, the last sitting by Marilyn Monroe, JonBenet Ramsey, Patty Hearst’s bank robbery and the nuclear testing that occurred at Bikini Atoll. Each image is based on Ezawa’s own memory of historical events and art historical imagery; the original photograph is scanned and then redrawn and altered using a graphics program. The result encourages the viewer to see these images anew, provoking a visceral response as if seen for the first time.
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