One Hour Photo: Noel Rodo-Vankeulen, Megan Cump, and Tim Davis

May 8th, 2010

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One Hour Photo
May 8-June 6, 2010
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington D.C.
Hours: 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Tue-Sun
Opening: May 8, 6-9pm
Closing: June 6, 11-4pm

One Hour Photo, curated by Adam Good, Chajana denHarder, and Chandi Kelley, opens tonight at the Katzen in Washington, DC. Quoting from the website, “[t]he premise of One Hour Photo is simple: project a photograph for one hour, then ensure that it will never be seen again… Each work will exist only in the limited moments of perception, in the individual and collective experience, then memory, of the observers.” Read more about the exhibition here. In conjunction with this project, Larissa Leclair has asked each photographer to respond to the same three questions – describe the photograph in three words, talk about the selection process, and thoughts on letting go of the image. The photographers’ responses will be posted the day their photograph is being projected at the Katzen – 26 days, 128 photographers. See the entire schedule and list of photographers here. The photographers’ responses may provide a glimpse of the projected image, but more so their answers seem to reveal more about the photographers themselves. Opening night starts off with Noel Rodo-Vankeulen, Megan Cump, and Tim Davis.

6-7pm: Noel Rodo-Vankeulen

Describe the photograph selected for One Hour Photo in three words:
Luminous and polymorphic

How does one go about selecting a photograph that is good enough for an exhibition but that can never be seen again?
Instead of just selecting an outtake from a previous series, or simply an ‘extra’ image from my archives, I decided to create a photograph that addressed the idea of the exhibition. I wanted to make an image that could be dismissed, was easily read and referenced itself as a projection – essentially a work that straddles a line between what is considered art and the obviousness of its situation.

What are your thoughts on letting go of this image?
I really don’t have a problem with it. While it seems recently that there is this fear about losing the physical print within photography, that is, our current practice of experiencing photographs primarily on a screen, I was drawn to the idea of making a work that subverts both sides of the argument.

It is a photograph, but it’s presented as an image. It is in a physical exhibition, but the structures of how the work and the show itself are consumed (looking, documenting, purchasing, etc) are very much twisted. I think of One Hour Photo as more of a performance and less like a slideshow.

Website: www.nrodo-vankeulen.com

7-8pm: Megan Cump

Describe the photograph selected for One Hour Photo in three words:
Sea of flames

How does one go about selecting a photograph that is good enough for an exhibition but that can never be seen again?
My selection process was guided by a desire to exhibit an image that captured something utterly fleeting and mutable.

What are your thoughts on letting go of this image?
I am content to let the image go – photography’s capacity to render the unseen visible is what first drew me to the medium and this project brings that notion full circle.

Website: www.megancump.com

8-9pm: Tim Davis

Describe the photograph selected for One Hour Photo in three words:
Rental Home Mailbox

How does one go about selecting a photograph that is good enough for an exhibition but that can never be seen again?
The same way people used to write poems and then throw them in the Seine. By going home and writing them again.

What are your thoughts on letting go of this image?
In a digital age, letting go is easy to do.

Website: www.davistim.com

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