the 770 show • eric william carroll

for the 770 show, eric william carroll foraged through the adobe book store stacks in search of old science textbooks. he likes how photography is used in a "matter-of-fact information delivery service" in those kinds of books. in the end, the beauty of the cover of "the milky way" by bart & priscilla bok won out. eric's been working on his own grand unification theory through images, both found and made, and he is continually drawn to idea of the 'cosmic sneeze'.

image 1: human error #4 (dust on film, enlarged), 2007 unique c-print photogram
image 2: human error #'s 1, 2, & 3 (a swarm of ancient stars, a sneeze, and dandruff), 2011 pigment ink prints
image 3: cover of "the milky way" by bart & priscilla bok, 1974 edition (the great nebula near eta carinae)

guest blogger • arden sherman • the 770 show

from san francisco's sunny mission district, this week's posts are from curator arden sherman's current project, the 770 show, where seven artists were invited to spend time in an iconic bookshop's stacks, discovering the wealth of ideas that present themselves when organization does not follow tradition. from the huge quantity of subject matter on hand, the artists mined the bookstore for images and responded to the found pictures through photography. taking up the complicated idea of order and organization through the simple act of selection and interpretation, the site acted as an integral part of staging the exhibition. throughout the week, arden will be posting the artists' work and projects from the 770 show in this online installment.

eric william carroll

eric william carroll's 'sunburn' project. "a collection of found photographs depicting the popular and somewhat cliché subject of sunsets...i've bleached, scratched, and defaced the surface of these images to bring them to a closer visual description of the subject they intend to document." see more here.

[all eric william carroll. sunburn.]

eric william carroll

eric william carroll's 'sunburn' project. see more here.

[all eric william carroll. top to bottom: atari sunset. 2007. zakat na morie (sunset at sea) photographed by sergei mikhailovich prokudin-gorskii, courtesy the library of congress. 1910/2008. sunburn 20. 2007.]

eric william carroll

eric william carroll spent a year rescuing snapshots from one-hour-photo dumpsters and then drilling 35mm holes in them. there's some pretty interesting self-reflection on the medium going on in this work (hence the title punctum from barthes' camera lucida). see more of his work here.

[all eric william carroll. from the series punctum/one year of taking pictures. 2006. top to bottom: untitled (gun). untitled (after sugimoto). untitled (baby).]