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further selections from "Useless, useless."

further selections from "Useless, useless.", a gallery on Flickr.

When I first conceived our "Useless, useless" theme, I asked that each contributing artist consider working in a light that affirms the value of things near to us that may seem trivial, but that hold limitless potential to positively impact the people and things which we love.The 700+ images I've invited to our May 3rd exhibition "get" this theme on an axiomatic, visceral level. Their images communicate abundantly the one quality, the one word I would choose to describe our entire effort­ empathy.

An introduction to "Useless, useless:" timwhitewriter.blogspot.com/2013/04/useless-useless-openi...

Exhibition Opening May 3rd, "Useless, useless."

Jeremiah Langsjoen: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fuzzysaurus/7108648863/

The 'you are not a dinosaur' photography collective's 3rd exhibition opens May 3rd at the California Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Images from around the world were selected from the 17,000+ photographs in our ancillary flickr group. "Useless, useless" is an exhibition that reveals the merit and dignity of our trivial daily doings. At a friend's memorial service last year, these last words of Lincoln's assassin came to mind when I saw starkly how much her one life had affected so many. It staggered me to consider Booth's inability to recognize how a single hateful act can galvanize so many differences and generate persistent conflict. The "better angels of our nature" have a comparable capacity to accomplish conflict's opposite- resolution, even harmony. The works we'll share assert the value of things near to us that may seem ordinary, but that hold vast potential to positively impact the people we love, and the communities we belong to. Nothing we do should ever be diminished or derided as useless. T.W. 5.1.2013 "

Useless, useless" gallery
exhibition pool here

"Useless, useless."

"Useless, useless.", a gallery on Flickr.

Preview gallery of images from our forthcoming exhibition, "Useless, useless."

cabin fever.

gallery:

Mike Dvorak, "Amish, one God, one family"

Issue 94 of B&W broke a longstanding precedent of not revisiting artists that had previously been featured. I proposed that Mike Dvorak’s work among a particularly stern Amish sect certainly merited a departure, and this was favorably approved. He and I both negotiated a tenuous balance between romanticizing this way of life, and acknowledging its harsher truths. 

"However artfully rendered Dvorak’s Amish series is, contemporary curators, and collectors tend to view documentary photography as having little current merit, or of having passed into history… Photographic art has frequently shown us what is enduring as well as what is imperiled. Given America’s current struggles, would that it had invested even a modest amount in the country’s artistic capital, rather than limiting its vision to bolstering banks and fortifying Wall Street. Fortunately, a few stalwart traditionalists believe that it remains a relevant endeavor to better acquaint us with the experiences of our fellow citizens.” December, 2012 link

neon tambourine

Lukasz Wierzbowski just became the first photographer invited to add over 100 images to the "You are not a dinosaur" flickr group. I'm grateful that he has lent us his talent, and unique sensibilities. More here: neon tambourine



'dinosaur' on flickr

bon hiver

bon hiver, a gallery on Flickr.