Keeping it Real
What do we expect from photographic images when they are made public, when they are put on display? For one, they have the potential to float freely across space and time until they are “adopted” and, as such, their dynamic potential has been widely tested out: by incorporating images into an installation or performance, and/ or by combining images with text or sound, artists and curators have long embraced the many ways in which photography can adapt to new technological formats, social conditions, and political interpretations. But accepting that photography exists in a liminal state—not persistently attached to the moment it was produced, nor fully existing in the present—comes with both a risk and an opportunity...Read the full article in the printed issue. Get OVER Journal 5
