Social Photography

January 19 - February 5, 2011

Organized to benefit upcoming programming at carriage trade, Social Photography is an exhibition focusing on the relatively new medium of cell phone photography. As cell phone cameras become more ubiquitous, their function continues to evolve. Encompassing the varied roles of snapshots, visual notes, discrete picture taking, or the immediacy of citizen journalism, the cell phone camera lacks the intentionality of a point-and-shoot, resulting in a more direct recording of the “everyday.” Because of the proximity of cell phone images to the spoken word and text-based communication, the pictures are often a kind of visual shorthand to fill the gaps in between. Emphasizing no particular theme beyond how the cell phone camera is most often used, both artists and non-artists were invited to submit cell phone images of their choice via email to carriage trade, which the gallery printed on 5" x 7" paper.

Barbara Weissberger

Matthew Antezzo

Paul Pagk

Lindsay Walt

Colin Thomson

Trevor Shimizu

Frances Middendorf

Kathy Goncharev

Garn Rupp

Spencer Ostrander

Gary Shteyngart

Peggy Awesh

Jeanne Liotta

Shirley Irons

Suzanne Stroebe

David Brooks

Karen Yama

Jeffrey Eugenides

Sean Hemmerle

Francy and Todd Graham

Diana Shpungin

Laurel Beckman

Blane De St. Croix

Humberto Delolmo

Theodora Ben-Ezra

Joy Whalen

Marcelo Krasilcic

Carl Ferrero