Free
Livestream
JCA Signature Series Lecture: Project B: Barbara Levine and Paige Ramey, vernacular photography and curatorial projects
October 9, 2024 @ 7:30pm
Levine & Ramey’s PhotoCircus: Experience the thrills of vernacular photography!
Visiting artists and collectors, Barbara Levine and Paige Ramey, open their virtual traveling cases brimming with images and objects from their singular collection of vernacular photography. In a dazzling spectacle, the artists share how their newest collection project, PhotoCircus, shines a light on one hundred years of photographic transformations: from personalized photo-jewelry to sculptural photo-objects to hand-altered photos to comic books featuring female photojournalists, and so much more. Along with showing examples from the collection, Levine and Ramey will reveal the longstanding and surprising relationship between vernacular photography, pop culture, curatorial practice and artistic process.
Barbara Levine and Paige Ramey are collectors, artists, and curators specializing in vernacular photography. They are known for building offbeat collections and using them as the foundation of their artistic practice which includes books, archive projects, workshops, and exhibitions. Their photography collection, known as PhotoMania, was recently acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and their first collection of vintage photograph albums was acquired by the International Center of Photography in New York. They are the authors of eight books including their most recent, Caption This: A photographic collection of amusing comments, snarky asides, and romantic admissions (2023, Princeton Architectural Press). They run Project B, an archive and collaborative curatorial venture and their newest collection of visual treasures, PhotoCircus, focuses on photographic objects and popular culture. They divide their time between San Francisco, CA, Houston, Texas and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. You can easily find them on their website, projectb.com or on Instagram at projectbphotos.
This performance is free and open to the public, no ticket is required.
Levine & Ramey’s PhotoCircus: Experience the thrills of vernacular photography!
Visiting artists and collectors, Barbara Levine and Paige Ramey, open their virtual traveling cases brimming with images and objects from their singular collection of vernacular photography. In a dazzling spectacle, the artists share how their newest collection project, PhotoCircus, shines a light on one hundred years of photographic transformations: from personalized photo-jewelry to sculptural photo-objects to hand-altered photos to comic books featuring female photojournalists, and so much more. Along with showing examples from the collection, Levine and Ramey will reveal the longstanding and surprising relationship between vernacular photography, pop culture, curatorial practice and artistic process.
Barbara Levine and Paige Ramey are collectors, artists, and curators specializing in vernacular photography. They are known for building offbeat collections and using them as the foundation of their artistic practice which includes books, archive projects, workshops, and exhibitions. Their photography collection, known as PhotoMania, was recently acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and their first collection of vintage photograph albums was acquired by the International Center of Photography in New York. They are the authors of eight books including their most recent, Caption This: A photographic collection of amusing comments, snarky asides, and romantic admissions (2023, Princeton Architectural Press). They run Project B, an archive and collaborative curatorial venture and their newest collection of visual treasures, PhotoCircus, focuses on photographic objects and popular culture. They divide their time between San Francisco, CA, Houston, Texas and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. You can easily find them on their website, projectb.com or on Instagram at projectbphotos.
This performance is free and open to the public, no ticket is required.