Exhibition — Poetic Record: Photography in a Transformed World

Photo: Jon Sweeney

This exhibition is presented as part of Poetic Record: Photography in a Transformed World, a two-day symposium that gathers photo-based artists, writers, curators, historians, and students to explore the poetics of photography, its instability, and its latent potential.

The exhibition is co-curated by Deana Lawson and Michael Famighetti, editor-in-chief of Aperture magazine. The exhibition and symposium coincide with the Fall 2024 issue of Aperture magazine, “Arrhythmic Mythic Ra,” an issue that refracts themes of family, social history, and the astrophysical through the eyes of guest editor Lawson and features many of the artists included in the Poetic Record exhibition.

Featuring work by artists David Benjamin Sherry, Jenny Calivas, Sara Cwynar, Seiichi Furuya, Paul Graham, Balarama Heller, Arthur Jafa, Liz Johnston Artur, Deana Lawson, Ken Light, Sally Mann, Louis Mendes, Boris Mikhailov, Richard Mosse, Trevor Paglen, Lucy Raven, Stefan Ruiz, Matthew Schreiber, Allan Sekula, Lieko Shiga, Taryn Simon, James Welling, and Jeff Whetstone.

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Poetic Record: Photography in a Transformed World is organized by Deana Lawson, Princeton University’s Dorothy Krauklis ’78 Professor of Visual Arts, in collaboration with Jeff Whetstone, Director of the Program in Visual Arts, and James Welling, Lecturer with the Rank of Professor of Visual Arts.

This is a Princeton Humanities Council Magic Project funded through a David A. Garner ’69 Magic Grant and presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts. The symposium is cosponsored by Princeton’s Collaboratorium for Radical Aesthetics and Council on Science and Technology.

The events coincides with the fall issue of Aperture magazine, “Arrhythmic Mythic Ra,” an issue that refracts themes of family, social history, and the astrophysical through the eyes of guest editor Deana Lawson and features many of the artists included in Poetic Record: Photography in a Transformed World.