Photography with an eye for social relevance
By Ryan • Jan 9th, 2008 • Category: News for Creatives (archives), PhotographyBy Kenneth Baker of the San Francisco Chronicle:
“For two West Coast cities that have much in common, San Francisco and Vancouver exchange surprisingly little in the way of contemporary culture.
“Jeff Wall,” the involving retrospective of Vancouver’s most celebrated contemporary artist at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, figures as a rare exception.
The Vancouver Art Gallery has a concurrent exhibition by Roy Arden, who also gets mentioned frequently as part of a “Vancouver School” of conceptual photography, along with Wall and his mentor, Ian Wallace.
The terms gained such currency as they have beginning in the 1980s. Critics and curators began then to notice a number of Vancouver artists reacting to conceptual art’s downgrading of visual values with photographs of high intensity and complex content that probed, obliquely or directly, the social force of imagery.”
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