Mapping Sitting: On Portraiture and Photography A Project by Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari – Arab Image Foundation. Grey Art Gallery www.nyu.edu/greyart, January 11–April 2, 2005 foto: Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari, detail of Beach Series (Reclining) from Studio Shehrazade dating from 1949–55 (Sidon, Lebanon), 2003. Photographer: Hashem el Madani (born 1930) © Arab Image Foundation, W. Raad, A. Zaatari
Concentrating on commercial photography, Mapping Sitting’s creators Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari (artists/curators) — pose a number of questions: What historical, aesthetic, philosophical, and cultural conceptions of photography are repeated and/or questioned in these images? What can we learn about notions of identity from these portraits? ... next>>>