Now and again, the e-flux mai list comes up with real nuggets of gold. One such arrived today, announcing an online archive, hosted by the Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, of the Photo Notebooks by Polish artist Władysław Hasior.
Having much in common with Aby Warburg's Mnemnsyne Atlas and Gerhard Richter's Atlas, as well as countless other collections by artists and photographers, it is a fascinating collection of images and a mapping of what are often familiar themes or obsessions. The archive has been digitised from a collection of 20 000 35mm colour slides - a considerable collection in the world of pre-digital images.
I will be spending time browsing the archive in coming days and noting confluences with my own image-gathering habits!
http://artmuseum.pl/en/archiwum/notatniki-fotograficzne-wladyslawa-hasiora/o-archiwum
In the exhibition "Søkjer Heim" (seeking a home) Trond Lossius & Jeremy Welsh are presenting a short video from their ongoing series The Atmospherics. The piece was made in 2014 as a tribute to composer Morten Eide Pedersen (1958 - 2014) with whom they had both collaborated many times during the past decade.
The video features sounds and images recorded in Hardanger in the early autumn of 2014. New iterations of The Atmospherics will be shown during 2016, at Heimdal Kunstforening (January-February) and at Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum, Førde (June - September)
The premise of the exhibition "Søkjer Heim" is that visitors to the show can apply to own one of the exhibited works, for free.
http://sokjerheim.weebly.com
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