[Frameworks] Cinema v Gallery: Robert Frank in Chicago

[Adam Hyman]

A short-term space/installation.
Say, an empty storefront gets found/used by an organization for a month
only.  It¹s a ³pop-up"

From:  Francisco Torres <fjtorrespr at GMAIL.COM>
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Date:  Sat, 27 May 2017 10:58:58 -0400
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Subject:  Re: [Frameworks] Cinema v Gallery: Robert Frank in Chicago

i just realized that i have no idea what ''a pop up presentation'' is.....
oh well.

2017-05-27 6:52 GMT-04:00 Francisco Torres <fjtorrespr at gmail.com>:
> https://steidl.de/News/Robert-Frank-Books-and-Films-1947-2017-Exhibition-02262
> 85052.html
> 
> Art Institute of Chicago, Bucksbaum Gallery 188
> 111 South Michigan Ave., Chicago
> may 11-26
> 
> ''This exhibition dedicated to Frank opens with a special pop-up presentation,
> conceived by the photographer and his longtime publisher Gerhard Steidl. The
> two-week-only display includes 29 photographs by Frank, drawn from the
> museum¹s latest acquisition of the artist¹s work, his 2014 book Partida. A
> compact retrospective surrounds it, featuring reproductions on newsprint
> banners tacked to the wall, films shown on portable video ³beamers² and
> projected on newsprint, and books hung in midair across the gallery. On May
> 26, the pop-up elements will be replaced by Robert Frank originals.''
> 
> 2017-05-27 5:54 GMT-04:00 christopher nigel <christophernigel64 at gmail.com>:
>> Hi which gallery was this ?
>> 
>> On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 8:29 AM, Chuck Kleinhans <chuckkle at northwestern.edu>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> > On May 26, 2017, at 3:23 PM, Bernard Roddy <tactilecorpus at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > Yesterday I passed through a small gallery filled with Robert Frank
>>>> pictures.  Lined up along a 12 or 15 ft wall were projections about 11 x 17
>>>> in. of 6 or 7 films.  This is gallery exhibition: I saw all Franks films in
>>>> under a minute.
>>>> >
>>> 
>>> I don¹t quite understand from this description.  Were the ³projections²
>>> still images or moving images?  Were they actually projected (as with slides
>>> and films or video projection) or were they screened on flat screen
>>> monitors?
>>> 
>>> I assume the gallery was selling the photographs. Was it also selling films?
>>> (as films, or as videos?)
>>> 
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