Photography

The Photographic Resource Center is proud to announce that George Slade will join the PRC on May 17 as the new Program Manager/Curator. He will be replacing Jason Landry, who is leaving the PRC to take ownership of the Panopticon Gallery in Boston.

Exploring the poetics of the ordinary. A portfolio of images created while waiting for a bus in Chelsea. An experiment in making art while passing time.

All over the Berkshires along the roads and in the woods there are buckets attached to maple trees. The sap is then boiled down to make liquid gold.

Since its invention in the nineteenth century, photography has been used for documentary purposes, faithfully recording the details of archaeological artifacts, works of art, and natural specimens. Drawn from the collections of the Clark and the Troob Family Foundation, and featuring works by William Henry Fox Talbot, Roger Fenton, and Eugène Atget, this focused exhibition considers how documentary images stand not only as material witnesses to times and places past, but as aesthetic objects that are at once accessible and uncanny. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute through April 11.

It is traditional for wedding parties in Montreal to visit the colorful Botanical Gardens for a photo shoot. Brides and flowers just seem to belong together. It was early in May and a bit off seasons for brides, but.

When a wall gets plastered or tagged with graffitti it is soon reworked. This results in layering of random images and text that relate to the medieval phenomenon of palimpsests when rare and expensive materials were recycled as supports for drawings and manuscripts. This often results in images that are rich in random associations.

.An album of images of gallerists at the recent New York art fairs. Many of the dealers seemed more interested in their laptops than interacting with visitors. You don’t make sales if you fail to communicate.

While teaching at the Metropolitan College of Boston University, where he chairs the Arts Administration program, Daniel Ranalli became intrigued by the palimpsests left on blackboards by professors. He began to photograph these serendipitous texts. Later they were manipulated to form the Chalkboard Series which is on view at Gallery Kayafas in Boston. He also shows with artSTRAND Gallery in Provincetown.

The signage and anonymous grafitti encounterd on a tour of Chelsea is often as fascinating as what is shown in the galleries. This is an album of street art and politics. We document some of the ephemera of the moment.