The Edge of Vision:
Abstraction in Contemporary Photography
Curated by Lyle Rexer and produced by Aperture Foundation, this exhibition presents photographs and photo-based installations, many exhibited for the first time, which explore the territory of “undisclosed” or abstract imagery in all its forms. These investigations include artifacts of the process of recording the action of light without the benefit or limitation of a camera lens (as seen in the work of Ellen Carey, Michael Flomen, and Ilan Wolff); direct photographs of surfaces that generate pattern and optical uncertainty (Roland Fischer) to images that comment on our culture of images (Penelope Umbrico and Carel Balth). In some works, documentary references are all but expunged, creating a new class of aesthetic ob ... Go to event
