Jennifer Bolande
“I was walking down the street and I noticed a globe in a school [window] on Avenue B in New York. It stopped me in my tracks and I went home, got my camera and photographed it. I had this peculiar feeling—I was looking at inner space from the street, but it looked like outer space, because there was this very deep black behind it. . . . It was the early 2000s, and the word ‘global’ was being thrown around for the first time. I had this feeling that the earth was shrinking every time someone used the word ‘global’ and that through the act of witnessing these little globes in windows, I was preventing it from shrinking further.”
by Luigi Ghirri (1943–92). The Italian conceptual photographer playfully explored framing, mapping, scale, and symmetry in his work. Beginning in the 1970s, he also wrote short essays on photography and culture. This essay begins with the impact of the first photograph of the Earth from the Moon.
Jennifer Bolande (b. 1957, Cleveland, Ohio) earned a BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art & Design. Solo exhibitions include venues such as Artists Space, New York, USA; Kunstraum München, Munich, Germany; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA; The Kitchen, New York, USA; Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria; Metro Pictures, New York, USA; INOVA, Milwaukee, USA; Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland; MoMA PS1, Queens, USA; among others. She currently lives and works in Joshua Tree and Los Angeles, California.
Image in menu: Jennifer Bolande, Globe Sightings: West 37th Street, NYC, 2000. C-print, 25 × 29.5 inches. Courtesy the artist.
Jennifer Bolande
“I was walking down the street and I noticed a globe in a school [window] on Avenue B in New York. It stopped me in my tracks and I went home, got my camera and photographed it. I had this peculiar feeling—I was looking at inner space from the street, but it looked like outer space, because there was this very deep black behind it. . . . It was the early 2000s, and the word ‘global’ was being thrown around for the first time. I had this feeling that the earth was shrinking every time someone used the word ‘global’ and that through the act of witnessing these little globes in windows, I was preventing it from shrinking further.”
by Luigi Ghirri (1943–92). The Italian conceptual photographer playfully explored framing, mapping, scale, and symmetry in his work. Beginning in the 1970s, he also wrote short essays on photography and culture. This essay begins with the impact of the first photograph of the Earth from the Moon.
Jennifer Bolande (b. 1957, Cleveland, Ohio) earned a BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art & Design. Solo exhibitions include venues such as Artists Space, New York, USA; Kunstraum München, Munich, Germany; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA; The Kitchen, New York, USA; Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria; Metro Pictures, New York, USA; INOVA, Milwaukee, USA; Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland; MoMA PS1, Queens, USA; among others. She currently lives and works in Joshua Tree and Los Angeles, California.
Image in menu: Jennifer Bolande, Globe Sightings: West 37th Street, NYC, 2000. C-print, 25 × 29.5 inches. Courtesy the artist.