1. SIGHT
UNSEEN
International Photography
by Blind Artists
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3. SIGHT UNSEEN
International Photography by Blind Artists
Sight Unseen: International Photography by Blind Artists, the first major exhibition
of work by the world’s most accomplished blind photographers, explores the idea that
blind photographers can see in ways that sighted people cannot.
Many of us, with sight leading as our dominant sense, use images to build our world.
Visual information is practical to our survival and yet it has become pervasive in our
world. We respond to visual overload by shuttering and narrowing our perception,
a form of self-inflicted blindness, so as to rebalance our senses. But for the sight-
impaired artists in this exhibition, the act of making a photograph has provided new
ways of seeing.
These artists employ diverse strategies in their work. Some use the camera to present
their own inner visions. Some capture the outside world unfiltered with a non-retinal
photography of chance. And a number of the artists, legally blind but retaining a
limited, highly attenuated sight, photograph to capture the outside world and bring it
into their realm.
In his novel Blindness, José Saramago writes, “Perhaps only in a world of the blind will
things be what they truly are.” Beethoven composed music without the ability to hear,
blind Milton and Homer conjured the landscapes of the heavens and the underworld,
and the artists of Sight Unseen further explore our definitions of blindness and challenge
us to reevaluate what it means to see.
4. Bruce Hall | Aberration (Autism series)
Cover:
Kurt Weston | Do You See the Big E?
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5. EXHIBITION INFORMATION
Number of works: 108
Frame sizes: Varies from 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25cm) to
48 x 57 inches (121 x 144cm)
Space requirements: 420 linear feet
130 linear meters
Tour dates: Fall 2009–2013
Participation fee: $13,500 for a 6 to 8 week period
Support materials: In production
CONTACT
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6. Gerardo Nigenda | Multiple Glances at the Bodily Rising
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26. Michael Richard | Way Out
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27. Gerardo Nigenda | The Harmony of Silence With the Movement of Water
Leads to Serenity
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28. Victorine Floyd Fludd | From Within
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29. Michael Richard | OminousAnonymous
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30. Alice Wingwall | Self-Portrait at San Trovaso, Venice, Italy
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35. This exhibition is curated by Douglas McCulloh
and organized by Curatorial Assistance, Inc.
Artists
Ralph Baker, New York, New York
Evgen Bavcar, Paris, France
Henry Butler, New Orleans, Louisiana
Pete Eckert, Sacramento, California
Bruce Hall, Irvine, California
Annie Hesse, Paris, France
Rosita McKenzie, Edinburgh, Scotland
Gerardo Nigenda, Oaxaca, México
Michael Richard, Los Angeles, California
Seeing With Photography Collective, New York, New York
Kurt Weston, Huntington Beach, California
Alice Wingwall, Berkeley, California
