September 7th, 2011
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  Starting today, you can visit Aperature’s exhibit “What Matters Now? Proposals for a New Front Page”  online or in person.  ”’What Matters Now? Proposals for a New Front Page‘ is a 10-day collaborative effort not only to fill the walls with the Web sites, photos, videos, multimedia pieces, drawings and articles that our guests and visitors recommend, but also to explain why this material is important. Ten years after the attacks of Sept. 11, we thought we would propose newer ways of knowing, relying on insider perspectives as well as the foreign eyewitnesses who make up much of the conventional press. The tables are hosted by experts in imagery: the Iraq-born artist Wafaa Bilal; Aperture’s longtime magazine editor, Melissa Harris; Stephen Mayes, the VII Photo Agency director; Deborah Willis, a curator, photographer and scholar; and me. Among others, guests include a rapper, an expert in conflict resolution, a police officer, students, human rights specialists, a former public school teacher, digital artists and a museum director. Beginning Wednesday, the public is invited to visit — either in person or via the Internet — to join the conversations and add selections to a wall reserved for visitors. The Web site will provide a narrative of the thinking and a record of the new “front page” as it evolves on the gallery’s walls. The site, which is already live, will also be a means for anyone to suggest ideas and imagery for inclusion. Giving subjects a camera; telling stories from multiple points of view; and using hypertext as part of a visual narrative are all challenges to the traditional authorities of the eyewitness. We aim to emphasize projects that attempt to tell stories in different ways, using multimedia, interactivity and non-linearity.” (via A Proposal: Fred Ritchin on the Search for a New Front Page - NYTimes.com)

 

Starting today, you can visit Aperature’s exhibit “What Matters Now? Proposals for a New Front Page”  online or in person. 

”’What Matters Now? Proposals for a New Front Page‘ is a 10-day collaborative effort not only to fill the walls with the Web sites, photos, videos, multimedia pieces, drawings and articles that our guests and visitors recommend, but also to explain why this material is important.

Ten years after the attacks of Sept. 11, we thought we would propose newer ways of knowing, relying on insider perspectives as well as the foreign eyewitnesses who make up much of the conventional press. The tables are hosted by experts in imagery: the Iraq-born artist Wafaa Bilal; Aperture’s longtime magazine editor, Melissa Harris; Stephen Mayes, the VII Photo Agency director; Deborah Willis, a curator, photographer and scholar; and me. Among others, guests include a rapper, an expert in conflict resolution, a police officer, students, human rights specialists, a former public school teacher, digital artists and a museum director.

Beginning Wednesday, the public is invited to visit — either in person or via the Internet — to join the conversations and add selections to a wall reserved for visitors. The Web site will provide a narrative of the thinking and a record of the new “front page” as it evolves on the gallery’s walls. The site, which is already live, will also be a means for anyone to suggest ideas and imagery for inclusion.

Giving subjects a camera; telling stories from multiple points of view; and using hypertext as part of a visual narrative are all challenges to the traditional authorities of the eyewitness. We aim to emphasize projects that attempt to tell stories in different ways, using multimedia, interactivity and non-linearity.” (via A Proposal: Fred Ritchin on the Search for a New Front Page - NYTimes.com)

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