Shooting blind : photographs by the visually impaired.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hoagland, Edward.

Seeing with Photography Collective.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and vision disorders.

Portrait photography.

Blind--Portraits.

Blind.

People with visual disabilities--Portraits.

People with visual disabilities.

Genre:

Portraits.

Physical Description:

93 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Photographs by the visually impaired

Place of Publication:

New York : Aperture Foundation, [2002]

Summary:

"Shooting Blind: Photographs by the Visually Impaired is the first large-scale project by the Seeing with Photography Collective, a group that has been active in New York City for over fifteen years. With sight impairments ranging from partial to complete blindness, SWP photographers use cameras to explore the world and better understand themselves, while creating hauntingly beautiful works of art. Interviews with the photographers accompany these richly surreal photographs, both of which shed light on the motivations and emotions behind this intriguing endeavor. When the artists were asked why they choose to make photographs, their replies were as varied as the images themselves: to see the world more clearly, to understand vision and how it is translated into the language of photography, to develop pride in succeeding at a seemingly impossible task.

Notes:

Introduction by Edward Hoagland.

"A project of New York City's Seeing with Photography Collective."

Interviews with the photographers: Mark Andres (program director), Arthur Krieck, Stephen Dominguez, Esmin Chen, John Gardner, Steven Erra, Peter Lui, Victorine Floyd Fludd, Roseann Kahn.

ISBN:

0893819948

OCLC:

49895790