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A review in Hyperallergic art forum of the State of Exception Installation:

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Additional local review: HERE

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Cabinet of Curiosities: Photography & Specimens
Group Exhibition
The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art
Kansas City, Missouri
September 12, 2012 – February 10, 2013

The Undocumented Migration Project
An exhibition in collaboration with Jason DeLeon and Amanda Krugliak
Institute For The Humanities at University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
January 2013

Recent Acquisitions: Works on Paper
Group Exhibition
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, New York
January 18 – March 30, 2013

Murmur & Refuge
Bau-Xi Gallery
Toronto, Canada
May 2 – May 31, 2013

Recent Aquisitions:
Unabomber Cabin (entire collection) – The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL

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Work from Richard’s 2012 Smithsonian Artists Research Fellowship Award, featured on NBC: HERE

Accompanying slideshow on msnbc.com: HERE

The Civil War was the first major conflict to be documented photographically with such thoroughness. It represents the beginnings of a nascent photojournalism as produced by Matthew Brady and his associates, including Alexander Gardner and Timothy O’Sullivan, photographers who became prominent in their own right. The photographic technology at the outbreak of the Civil War consisting of cumbersome cameras, slow shutter speeds, and volatile chemistry and made it impractical, if not deadly, to photograph in the midst of battle. It is for this reason that we see so many images taken of camp life before the battle, or dead men and horses in the aftermath.

My particular interest in photographing re-enactments is not to cover them as a contemporary photojournalist might, with a digital camera and a motor drive, but rather to put myself in the shoes of Alexander Gardner and attempt to make images that have the look and feel of what it would have been like to actually be in the field at the time of battle. To achieve this, I am using a large format camera and the same wet plate process employed by Matthew Brady and his associates. Ultimately I seek to go beyond the nostalgia of recreating the look of images from another era, my aim is rather to establish a creative tension that addresses the artifice of the re-enactment, in juxtaposition to the evidence of contemporary life, occurring within and at the periphery of the photographic frame.

Presenter Ralph Lincoln, posing as Abraham Lincoln, his 3rd cousin. Antietam 2012

Re-staging of Gardner’s staged photograph of Sharp Shooter’s Home, Gettysburg 2012

Work from this series was published in the story “Civil War Reenvisioned” in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic Magazine.

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Richard discusses the 2nd Avenue Subway project on MSNBC’s Morning Joe: Click here for video