Friday, May 28, 2010

my new favorite blog / well of inspiration


MORBID ANATOMY I found this while flipping through some machine project photo archives on flickr, here's a repost of the detils:

The Secret Museum Exhibition, Photographs by Joanna Ebenstein. Observatory, 2010. Find out more here.An exhibition exploring the poetics of hidden, untouched and curious collections from around the world in photographs and artifacts, by Joanna Ebenstein, co-founder of Observatory and creator of Morbid Anatomy.Photographer and blogger Joanna Ebenstein has traveled the Western world seeking and documenting untouched, hidden, and curious collections, from museum store-rooms to private collections, cabinets of curiosity to dusty natural history museums, obscure medical museums to hidden archives. The exhibition “The Secret Museum” will showcase a collection of photographs from Ebenstein’s explorations–including sites in The Netherlands, Italy, France, Austria, England and the United States–which document these spaces while at the same time investigating the psychology of collecting, the visual language of taxonomies, notions of “The Specimen” and the ordered archive, and the secret life of objects and collections, with an eye towards capturing the poetry, mystery and wonder of these liminal spaces. In tandem with this exhibition, Ebenstein has organized a 2 week “Collector’s Cabinet” at the The Coney Island Museum, which will showcase astounding objects held in private collections, including artifacts featured in her Private Cabinet photo series of 2009.To download press release, which includes sample images, please click here.On view from April 10th-June 6thObservatory543 Union Street at Nevins, Brooklyn, New York (click here for directions)3-6 Thursday and Friday12-6 Saturday and Sunday



Also, when I saw this it made me wish that we had a camp Shomako(h?) group picture. I'll organize this if y'all will show up, perhaps at mine n jay's going away party?

3 comments:

  1. we have a bunch of shomako group phots, remember the last day of the studio? perhaps that was shomako and company.
    anyway, if we take another one, we have to print out evan and mylans' heads and hold them up on a stick, like they did if anyone was absent on class photos day in third grade.

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  2. oh yeah, that's right! is millie coming out at all this summer? SHIT!

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