Traces

Book Details:  Hardcover ISBN-13: 9781954119338 112 pages; 100 Photographs 7 x 9 inches $50 US The imagery and vignettes in this ongoing multimedia work use video, digital and stop motion animation, historical footage, and audio to depict the extraordinary light and darkness in the human condition and life events such as the genesis of our existence, and the purpose we serve to each other and ourselves. The familiar and unpredictable illustrate the cycles of life across cultural barriers. Surveying the myriad and disjointed experiences that make up a life, Traces explores the way we construct our internal narratives and create meaning from experience. The audio component consists of a series of anonymously conducted interviews with a range of participants. The perspectives chosen reveal the universality and individuality of values, the intersectionality of symbolism across cultures, our lineages, and the perpetual cycles of life. John Singletary is a photographer and multimedia artist based in Philadelphia, PA. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from The University of the Arts. His work has been collected by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Center for Fine Art Photography as well as other institutional and private collections. Stephen Perloff is the founder and editor of The Photo Review, a critical journal of international scope publishing since 1976, and editor of The Photograph Collector, the leading source of information on the photography art market. He is also the editor of The Daguerreian Society Quarterly and The Daguerreian Annual. Amie Potsic is the CEO and Principal Curator of Amie Potsic Art Advisory as well as an accomplished photographer and installation artist. She has held faculty appointments at the University of California at Berkeley and the San Francisco Art Institute and been a guest lecturer at the International Center of Photography, Tyler School of Art, and the Delaware Contemporary. Harris Fogel is a photographer, gallerist, curator, independent scholar, and journalist. He directed, curated, and organized more than 275 photography exhibitions over the past thirty years. Previously Fogel was an Associate Professor of Photography, & served as director & curator of the two photo galleries (The Sol Mednick Gallery and Gallery 1401 of Photography – the latter of which he founded in 1999), and was the Program Director and Coordinator of the Photography Program, & Chair of the Media Arts Department (Photo/Film/Animation) at UArts in Philadelphia.