Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Dear Apocalypse

Somehow I missed this opening on my hiatus but Lens Culture cites the following show which just opened at the New Museum - APOCALYPSE: CONTEMPORARY VISIONS (May 30 - July 27, 2007).

The blurb from the show states:
It is not specific, nor is it political. It is meant to be deeply psychological, more fantasy than reality. We have looked for photographs that suggest something. If they are literal, they may not be obvious, as in Stephen Vaughn's image of an iceberg melting quietly on a beach.
Funny I know some bloggers who have a few thoughts on this and would have loved to use that image. Perhaps this could be the official picture for the Democrats in '08...



image: Lucian Perkins: A Survivor of the Gulf War, 1991

2 comments:

geoffrey said...

i think a beached manatee quietly dying on a beach would be a better image for the democrats at this point.

Demawho? Demawhat? Not sure i even know what the word means anymore... Thanks, guys.

highlowbetween said...

well it is a wretched ass trapped in hell - an exercise of futility and ineptitude