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FLUXspace takes on [Contemporary Portraiture]

Jessica Roberts, CJ Portraiture has always been a two-way street, an even more so in contemporary times, photographic portraiture. Are Sally Mann’s photos of her children more about the kids or more about Sally Mann, for instance. Are Cindy Sherman’s self-portraits about Cindy Sherman or someone else. Just what/who are we looking at? At FLUXspace, two photographers take on problematic forms of portraiture. Jessica Roberts and Chad Muthard couldn’t be more different in their approaches and their results. Jessica Roberts, Dan Roberts, a young photographer whose work has been seen around Philadelphia, most notably at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery’s L’Autre exhibit (post ... More » »

The slippery truth–contemporary art photography

James Johnson, When I was a Kid I thought Mr. Rogers Could See Me Too2006, detail,inkjet prints; on the monitor to the right is a video by Kara Crombie. Photography is all over town–and there’s more on the way. From L’Autre, a group show at University of the Arts, to Tina Barney at Gallery 339, to James Johnson’s installation in the faculty show at Moore College, (not to mention Joel Katz’s 1964 photographs of Mississippians in the midst of the Civil Rights Era, also at Moore), to Eileen Neff’s eerie work at the ICA, I couldn’t help but think of ... More » »