Some people walk in knowing exactly what they want to have photographed. For others, it's a spur-of-the-moment decision – sometimes prompted by a consultation with photographer Abby Robinson.
An artist and professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York, Robinson has set up Body Imaging installations in New York, Las Vegas, and Shanghai. Each location presents challenges – and opportunities. Robinson says that there are similarities though. "I get asked most often to photograph eyes and hands," she reports. Early reports suggest that necks and ears are especially popular at CEU.
Robinson is seeing "patients" at CEU through June 7 in her "office" in Nador 11, Room 002. A dozen people showed up yesterday for walk-in appointments between 3 and 6 pm. Each patient leaves Abby's office with a picture in a plastic badge that they can wear around their neck. At the end of the exhibit, Robinson will combine all of the pictures to create an installation that will be exhibited at SPP in honor of Founding Dean Wolfgang H. Reinicke who is stepping down as dean in summer 2016.
Abby's office hours:
- TODAY, June 2: 3-6pm
- TOMORROW, June 3: 9am – 1pm and 3-6pm
- Saturday, June 4: 10am - 12:30pm and 3:30-6pm
- Sunday, June 5: 11am – 3pm
- Monday, June 6: 10am -1pm and 2-3pm
- Tuesday, June 7: 9am- 2pm and 3-5:30pm
In a presentation given during the conference, Robinson highlighted photographers who use satire and humor in their work as sources of inspiration and reference:
- John Heartfield
- Hannah Hoch
- Weegee (Arthur Feelig)
- Margaret Bourke-White
- Dorothea Lange
- Robert Doisneau
- Philippe Halsman
- Yuki Aoyama
- Garry Winogrand
- Edwin Wurm
- Sacha Goldberger
- Martin Parr
- David Shrigley
- Annu Palakunnathu Matthew
- Hendrik Kerstens
- Nina Katchadourian
- Pixy Liao
- Bill Thomas
- Gregg Segal
- Wang Qinsang
- Ross Bleckner
- Elliott Erwitt