An estimated 63,000 images are captured globally every second, or 5.3 billion every day. The vast majority of these are taken on smartphones, condemned to forever reside in the incorporeal digital world of 0s and 1s. Meanwhile, physical copies are increasingly hard to find. For artist Aaron Stern, the mechanical whirr and beep of the Xerox printing machines stands as a staunch opposition to this trend, its deliberate, almost painstaking process of printing hard copies offering a return to a time when picture-making was more deliberate.
Hard Copy, curated by Stern, showcases contemporary photography from 20 artists, including Gray Sorrenti, Katsu Naito and Shaniqwa Jarvis, laboriously scanned and xeroxed for physical consumption. Through their unmistakable vertical streaks and brutalist grayscale, these Xerox prints are both alluring and mysterious, providing a nostalgic look back at the enduring power of the photographic medium, as well as a celebration of today’s luminaries.
Courtesy Hard Copy / Aaron Stern
“There are 1 trillion, mostly digital, mostly garbage, pictures made every day. It’s nice to see good ones in person,” says Stern. “More than anything – I wanted to do what I wanted to do. Repurpose work of other artists. In collaboration with them. I did it all mostly for the process. Gave me an excuse to talk to my friends. That I put in the exhibition. And a good reason to reach out to people I’ve wanted to work with.”
As for the images themselves, you’ll have to see with your own eyes to find out. “If you look close enough, you most probably might find yourself here,” Sorrenti cryptically announced on Instagram last week. According to Stern, her contribution comprises 900 images, pulled from Facetime, and collaged to make a staggering 61-foot-long mural.
The exhibition launches at 6-9pm this evening (May 3) at downtown New York’s WSA building, 161 Water Street, showcasing until the end of the month. Come jam with the printed medium and hope the printer doesn’t jam.
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LONDON (AP) — With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back.
More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two dots over the e in their surname.
The dots — which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” — were omitted when the stone tablet commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected in the abbey’s Poets’ Corner in October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II.
They were restored after Brontë historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Brontë Society Gazette, raised the issue with Dean of Westminster David Hoyle. The abbey asked its stonemason to tap in the dots and its conservator to paint them.
“There’s no paper record for anyone complaining about this or mentioning this, so I just wanted to put it right, really,” Wright said. “These three Yorkshire women deserve their place here, but they also deserve to have their name spelled correctly.”
It’s believed the writers’ Irish father Patrick changed the spelling of his surname from Brunty or Prunty when he went to university in England.
Raised on the wild Yorkshire moors, all three sisters died before they were 40, leaving enduring novels including Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”
Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Society, welcomed the restoration.
“As the Brontës and their work are loved and respected all over the world, it’s entirely appropriate that their name is spelled correctly on their memorial,” she said.
