Archive of the Ordinary: Jason Lazarus, Too Hard to Keep

Autor:	Shawn Michelle Smith
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	Snapshot (photography) History Visual Arts and Performing Arts Communication Photography ComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISION 06 humanities and the arts 060401 art practice history & theory 0604 arts Visual arts
Zdroj:	Journal of Visual Culture. 17:198-206
ISSN:	1741-2994 1470-4129
DOI:	10.1177/1470412918782363
Popis:	This article considers snapshot photography and affect through a reading of artist Jason Lazarus’s Too Hard to Keep. Lazarus’s project is an archive and shifting installation of anonymous photographs that donors can no longer bear to keep. It highlights the dual nature of the photographic snapshot – simultaneously banal and emotionally charged, tedious and intensely affecting, private and public, a site of cultural normativity as well as resistance. The article proposes that because viewers of Lazarus’s installations cannot know what specific feelings any of the images previously evoked, they are encouraged to contemplate shared practices of photography and the diffuse affective charge of ordinary photographs.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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