Power Plant GalleryPicture Books
On View
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Featuring the Indy Photobook Library
Picture Books is a juried exhibition of self-published and handmade photography books, featuring A Survey of Documentary Styles in Early 21st Century Photobooks from the Indie Photobook Library, curated by Larissa Leclair and Darius Himes.
The books selected for this exhibition present a range of subject matter, each coupled with a particular visual language drawn from a pool of diversity. There are books that speak a more traditional documentary language, while there are those that explicitly critique that very same tradition; there are diaristic books and titles that overlay a typological structure; other books rely primarily on found and vernacular imagery; and there are many books that borrow heavily from an art-photography storehouse. The goal of this exhibition is to survey the field before us and to foreground questions of authorship, voice, style and content.
Participating Alumni from the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts at Duke: Kristina S. Baker, Rachel Boillot, Aaron Canipe, Alex Cunningham, and Wolfgang Hastert.
