Thinking about Birds
I’ve been thinking about birds a lot recently. And I’m not the only one. Jen Bekman, as we know, has a thing for birds (and her brilliant 20×200 project ensures that I’m constantly looking at work with birds in it). I also just got the Fall calendar for The Photographic Center Northwest, in Seattle. Opening in October is a show—curated by Gallery Director Ann Pallesen—entitled Bird Studies. It will feature the work of 6 photographers: Jules Greenberg, Neeta Madahar, Annie Marie Musselman, Darryl Schmidt, Charlotte Watts and Paula McCartney.
Paula’s work, specifically, has been on my mind as I’ve been working on an essay for her (distant) forthcoming book from Princeton Architectural Press. (The book isn’t even listed yet, so don’t worry if you can’t find it.) Paula is poking around with a lot of different ideas concerning truth, falsehood and the photographic medium. But mostly she’s having fun and making amazing artist’s books. She has an upcoming show with her books at Carleton College in their library gallery.
I’ll post about her again once the book is announced!
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