Presentation
See Change: A Memoir
Mapping mutations of a medium, and one of its disciples, over time
Mapping mutations of a medium, and one of its disciples, over time
The speaker returns to the 1970s to chart developments in art and art photography, along with his participation in the latter. Between then and now, tectonic changes have taken place with the shift from modernism to postmodernism and analog to digital.
After the shock of Warhol and Rauschenberg, the speaker covers how women artists, such as Kruger, Rosler, Sherman, and Levine blazed a new path. In landscape, that most traditional of genres, he will discuss how Ansel Adams gave way to that of Robert Adams.
To help illustrate these changes the speaker will show his work during this time: experimenting with various formats, making the switch from BW to color, and analog to digital—along with commensurate conceptual shifts. The talk concludes with his most recent finished project, a re-photographic project spanning forty years.
Richard Koenig
Born in 1960, Richard Koenig received his BFA from Pratt Institute. In 1998 he received his MFA from Indiana University and began teaching art and photography courses at Kalamazoo College, Michigan.
His fine art work, Photographic Prevarications, was shown in six one-person exhibits in as many years (from 2007 to 2012). Koenig's long-term documentary project, Contemporary Views Along the First Transcontinental Railroad, spawned four articles (between 2014 and 2019). In 2021 he contributed to an exhibit at Indiana University, Hoosier Lifelines, on the history of the Monon Railroad.
Two pieces appeared digitally in July of 2022: City as Metaphor, a re-photography project on Brooklyn, was showcased on Pictorial List, an on-line photography magazine; concurrent with that, his article, See Change: A Memoir, was published on Lenscratch, a fine art photography daily.
His fine art work, Photographic Prevarications, was shown in six one-person exhibits in as many years (from 2007 to 2012). Koenig's long-term documentary project, Contemporary Views Along the First Transcontinental Railroad, spawned four articles (between 2014 and 2019). In 2021 he contributed to an exhibit at Indiana University, Hoosier Lifelines, on the history of the Monon Railroad.
Two pieces appeared digitally in July of 2022: City as Metaphor, a re-photography project on Brooklyn, was showcased on Pictorial List, an on-line photography magazine; concurrent with that, his article, See Change: A Memoir, was published on Lenscratch, a fine art photography daily.
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