Keeping in line with the previous post, there are some good things at the galleries in Chelsea right now that are dealing with “truth” and photography.

At Silverstein Photography, there’s a very interesting exhibition of images from Nicolai Howalt and Trine Søndergaard called How to Hunt, capturing the participants and environment of a hunt in the Danish countryside. From their artist statement:

Each image is composed of multiple negatives from the same fixed p.o.v. The same frame repeated to reflect the movement of people and animals across the landscape, here represented simultaneously thus extending the photographic moment beyond a single click of the shutter. This visually condenses the period of the hunt, but also gives a far more interpretative representation of the entire experience than a single image.

Also, at Luhring Augustine, an exhibition of images and videos by Yasumasa Morimura called Requiem for the XX Century: Twilight of the Turbulent Gods, in which the artist stages a reenactment of an event or poses as cultural icons or from the last century - Hitler, Lenin, Einstein, Guevera, et al. The images are both funny and horrifying, and the show was almost like watching some sort of demented cartoon. These photographs take their form from other photographs, and thusly become as much about our understanding of photography - and how it colors our perception of world events - as they are about the people and events Morimura mimics.