Jeremias Paul’s Momentism Blog

News:

“A Rock Decaying Around Itself”, from my Songlines series, was just chosen to be a part of the Photographic Resource Center’s first annual juried publication! The 2009 guest juror for the competition was Dana Faconti, the editor and publisher of Blind Spot magazine! The publication will be a full color insert in the Fall 2009 issue of in the loupe (the PRC’s newsletter with a circulation of 2000), featuring one image each from the selected artists. Congratulations to everyone! I’m excited and honored to be published alongside so many names involved that I know!

About the Photographic Resource Center:

The Photographic Resource Center (PRC) at Boston University is an independent non-profit organization that serves as a vital forum for the exploration and interpretation of new work, ideas, and methods in photography and related media. The PRC presents exhibitions, fosters education, develops resources, and facilitates community interaction for local, regional, and national audiences.

If you are not a member, please consider becoming one! This fantastic organization creates a lot of opportunities for photographers of all career levels. Click HERE to become a member!

Also, check out the PRC’s photography blog HERE.

About the Juror:

Dana Faconti is the Editor and Publisher of Blind Spot Magazine as well as the Executive Director of Photo-Based Art, the non-profit publisher of the art journal. A native of New York and a graduate of Parsons, she has worked with Blind Spot since 1999. She has presided over the design, production, and publication of several highly-acclaimed book projects including Chronologies by Richard Misrach, Guest by Christopher Bucklow, and Yours in Food by John Baldessari. She has also worked at the Aperture Foundation and with the Time Life Picture Collection.

The Selected Artists:

Ri Anderson (San Miguel de Allende, Gto., Mexico)
Clint Baclawski (Boston, MA)
Gideon Barnett (Jasper, TN)
Chris Bentley (Santa Fe, NM)
Deborah Bright (Boston, MA)
Christopher Churchill (Amesbury, MA)
Annie Claflin (Boston, MA)
Maureen Drennan (Brooklyn, NY)
Jess T. Dugan (Cambridge, MA)
Matthew Gamber (Boston, MA)
Gigi Gatewood (Providence, RI)
Erik Gould (Pawtucket, RI)
Phil Jung (Boston, MA)
Susan Lakin (Rochester, NY)
Shane Lavalette (Cambridge, MA)
Rania Matar (Brookline, MA)
Brad Moore (Laguna Beach, CA)
Blake D. Ogden (Cambridge, MA)
Lydia Panas (Kutztown, PA)
Jeremias Paul (Cedar City, UT) → Putting Cedar City on the map!
Peter Riesett (Brooklyn, NY)
Christopher Sims (Efland, NC)
Mickey Smith (New York, NY)
Laura Swanson (Providence, RI)
Millee Tibbs (Providence, RI)
Phil Underdown (Gardiner, NY)
Johanna Warwick (Jamaica Plain, MA)

More: HERE!

“Who’s going to be the one to set them straight, Man? Me? Look at me Man! Wrong!”

-Dennis Hopper as the Photojournalist in Apocalypse Now

I saw this quote somewhere today on a forum and it made me think about how this could be applied to art-making theory. Here you are, just make what you need to make… does it matter now? Is it your part to know? Maybe it isn’t… is the inclination of art production linked directly to contextual significance? Is this what makes or breaks young (hopeful) artists?

Dennis Hopper’s character seems to have given up this hope, at least at his point of the story, but we as the viewers can see the whole context… the viewer and his/her knowledge is the most important part in a piece of art. That, and the element of time. I think work needs to rest and perhaps rot for a certain amount of time for even the creator to understand its meaning. Perhaps it is too early to judge any worth of a newly made piece of art? Maybe our work will out live us and we shall never know?

Interestingly enough, Dennis Hopper is also an acclaimed photographer and has a book published of his photographs of Los Angeles in the 1960s entitled 1712 North Crescent Heights: Dennis Hopper Photographs 1962-1968.

Andy Warhol by Dennis Hopper, 1963