{"id":431,"date":"2009-05-21T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=431"},"modified":"2009-05-21T11:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T11:17:00","slug":"new-yorkphoto-festival-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/new-yorkphoto-festival-3\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/Photo Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/timhetherington.htm\"target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/stepin.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>Sleeping Soldiers by Tim Hetherington &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n<p>One of the strongest pieces in the show curated by Jon Levy was a three panel video installation by Tim Hetherington showing sleeping soldiers juxtaposed against a tense and emotional exchange on the battlefield in Afghanistan. Unlike so many video pieces that seem designed primarily to test one&#8217;s patience, this montage of images, still and moving, gets to the point powerfully in a relative handful of minutes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/carlosranc.htm\"target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/couchfaces.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>Carlos Ranc  in St. Ann&#8217;s Warehouse &#8212; \u00a9 BrianRose<\/p>\n<p>I had limited time to see the festival, so I moved quickly through curator Jody Quon&#8217;s exhibit, which deals with female identity. The other major exhibit of the festival, which I did not see, also dealt with sexual identity, gay males. These are very familiar contemporary art themes, the kind of thing I seem hardwired to resist. But, of course, dismissing whole exhibits may not be fair to individual artists, so I try to wade through anyway. Although I don&#8217;t go for Carlos Ranc&#8217;s blurry manipulations of Playboy models, I do like Katy Grannan&#8217;s carefully posed work very much. I&#8217;ll have to write about her some time in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sleeping Soldiers by Tim Hetherington &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose One of the strongest pieces in the show curated by Jon Levy was a three panel video installation by Tim Hetherington showing sleeping soldiers juxtaposed against a tense and emotional exchange on the battlefield in Afghanistan. Unlike so many video pieces that seem designed primarily to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}