There’s a wonderful quote in a Talk of the Town piece in this week’s New Yorker. The piece covers the opening of an exhibit of work by the late Pulitzer Prize-winning Vietnam War photographer Eddie Adams; many of the images have never been displayed before, having been not long ago discovered in plastic garbage bags in the garage of Adams’ first wife.
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April 11, 2008
Event: Archive Fever at NYPL
This coming Monday April 14 at the New York Public Library:
“One of the most compelling issues explored by artists in recent years centers on the nature and meaning of the archive, that is, how we create, store, and circulate pictures and information.
Against the standard view of the archive which evokes a dim, musty place full [...]
