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