Abstraction and Redaction in Photographic Archives
Evan Hume’s art practice explores the intersection of abstraction, photography, and secrecy in the context of declassified government archives. This work began by researching photographs from Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force’s investigation into unidentified flying objects between the late 1940s and 1960s. The degradation of these images through photocopying and microfilm transfer rendered them abstract and ambiguous, undermining their evidentiary function. These photographs become a point of departure for grappling with the limits of photographic legibility and representation when recontextualized, recalling the negation of modernist abstraction.
Time
Tuesday, 04.11.25 - 06:15 PM
- 07:45 PM
Topic
History of Art and Media Science
Speaker
Evan Hume (Photography, Iowa State University)
Target groups
All interested
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Researchers
Languages
English
Location
Online
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not required
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Organizer
Department of Art History & Institute of Media Studies at the University of Bonn, Brandenburg Center for Media Studies (ZeM)
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