Anonymes

Unnamed America in Photography and Film

September 18 - December 19, 2010

Anthony Hernandez, Vermont ave.& Wishire blvd, 1979
Janeth Rodriguez-Garcia
Chauncey Hare, Weirton, West Virginia, 1971
Patrick Tourneboeuf
Collection Arianna Arcara, Luca Santese, Cesuralab.Detroit a self-portrait Found pictures 2009-2010
Janeth Rodriguez-Garcia
Doug Rickard, #96.766076, Dallas, TX, 2009
Janeth Rodriguez-Garcia
Janeth Rodriguez-Garcia
Janeth Rodriguez-Garcia

One of the defining characteristics of the modern era is its anonymity, from the commodification of the everyday and the homogenization of culture, to the standardization of work and our alienation from political power.

Invated Curator : David company

Anonymes focuses on North America. Since the 1930s, American mainstream culture has celebrated individuality and the self, while nearly all its important image-makers have addressed the nondescript, the flattening of daily experience, and the pervading sense of anonymity.

These have been the country’s twin gifts to the world’s visual culture and their contradictions and tensions are now experienced everywhere.

For its inaugural exhibition, Anonymes, LE BAL brings together ten photographers and filmmakers whose work experiments with ways to record t

Curators : Diane Dufour and David Company