Monthly Archives: February 2012

Flight Attendants

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Flying the friendly skies, Brian Finke spent the last few years photographing flight attendants on carriers in the United States and abroad. The result of Finke’s wanderlust is his series “Flight Attendants,” a vibrant collection of photographs documenting the lives of those adventurous souls who choose to work at 40,000 feet. Shot before, during and after flights, the photographs capture the allure of the high-flying profession alongside the more quiet moments of the attendants’ daily lives. As with his previous series of photpgraphs, “2-4-6-8: Photographs of Cheerleaders and Football Players,” Finke is drawn to the distinctive dynamics of team formation, focusing on uniformed individuals executing practiced actions. With an eye for the iconic as well as the absurd, Finke seamlessly blends the glamorous with the casual, offering a memorable look at the people of the air travel industry.

Gregory Halpern | “Goings On About Town,” The New Yorker

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Vince Aletti from The New Yorker writes:

…The sense of disillusionment is underscored by images of physical decay: houses collapsing or, in once instance, on fire, while aluminum siding melts into smoke. Halpern also has a sharp eye for incidental beauty and saving grace, as seen in pictures of a shard of glass glinting in the dirt and of trash burning on an embankment at dusk, one ember lifted into the air, like a flaming planet.

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Brian Finke’s work is featured in “Orchestrated Vision” at the St. Louis Museum of Art

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Brian Finke’s work is featured in “Orchestrated Vision” at the

Brian Finke’s work is featured in “Orchestrated Visions: The Theater of Contemporary Photography” at the St. Louis Art Museum, February 19 – May 13, 2012:

“The Theater of Contemporary Photography” is a compelling survey of contemporary photographers, many presented in St. Louis for the first time. Seen together, the works reveal the remarkable potential of the photographic medium in contemporary artistic practice. On view will be over 40 works from an international group of artists which includes Thomas Struth, Carrie Mae Weems, and Gregory Crewdson.

These photographers have focused on the elements of scene setting and directing to meticulously construct environments that are mesmerizing in their large scale, absorbing in their uncanny beauty, and haunting in their elusive meaning. They inventively exploit photography’s unique capacity to operate in the boundaries between fact and fiction. Each image is the product of the painstaking execution of the ambitious vision of the artist.

Curated by Eric Lutz, associate curator of prints, drawings and photographs, with Ann-Maree Walker, research assistant, “An Orchestrated Vision: The Theater of Contemporary Photography” will be on view in the Main Exhibition Galleries.

For more information on the exhibition:
http://www.slam.org/OrchestratedVision/about.php

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Brian Paul Clamp, Director