November 18, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyOld Inspires the New Austin-based Lakes Were Rivers, a group of 11 artists working in photography and video, recently collaborated with the Ransom Center to pair works of its artists with images from the Center’s photography collection, resulting in (Re)Collection, an exhibition in conjunction with the East Austin Studio Tour. Each artist selected an image from the Ransom’s Center photography collections to be scanned and printed as an 8×10 reproduction. In the exhibition, these collection images are paired with a representative work made by members of Lakes Were Rivers, generating a complex and varied dialogue about the traditions and potential of photography as a medium. Re(Collection) is on view this Saturday and Sunday, November 19 and 20, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at 1319 Rosewood Avenue. Members of Lakes Were Rivers will serve as gallery attendants and will be available to discuss the show with visitors. Some of the pairings appear below. Adam Schreiber. Rirkrit Tiravanija, Untitled, 1999. Archival inkjet print. 2011. Paul Louis Marie Fabre-Domergue. Octopus Vulgaris, 1899. La photographique des animaux aquatques. Harry Ransom Center. ________________________________________________________________ Ben Ruggiero. Windows as Viewed #71: Migrant Mother, Dorothea Lange 1936. Window etching cyanotype contact print. Harry Ransom Center. November 11, 2011. Dorothea Lange. Destitute peapickers in California; a 32 year old mother of seven children. February 1936. Harry Ransom Center. _________________________________________________________________ Jessica Mallios. Motif. Archival inkjet print. 2011. Philip H. Delamotte. Colossal head of Bavaria. Photographic Views of the Progress of the Crystal Palace, Sydenham. London: Crystal Palace Company, 1855. Harry Ransom Center. ________________________________________________________________ Mike Osborne. Wendover, Utah. Archival inkjet print. 2011. Francis Frith. The Pyramids of Dahshoor?Lower Egypt, Thebes, and the Pyramids?1862 (ca.). Harry Ransom Center.
