Jeri with her 1956 Pink Cadillac, Green Bay, Wisconsin, 2013, (50×40 archival inkjet print) © J. Shimon & J. Lindemann
For more than 30 years, we’ve collaborated as J. Shimon & J. Lindemann to make photographs responding to Wisconsin as both place and state-of-mind. There’s a Place is our first museum retrospective and the largest exhibition of our work to date. It’s on view April 11- June 7, 2015 at the Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI.
Using contemporary and historic photographic techniques, while drawing on the history of photography, we created a somewhat melancholy body of work that stands as a record of our time. Using photography, film, sculpture, and our impulse to archive, we found meaning in the ordinary. The exhibition will contain vintage platinum/palladium prints, cyanotypes, gum bichromate prints, gelatin silver prints, tintypes, daguerreotypes, 3D stereo views, and archival
• CATALOGUE •
MoWA produced a 120-page color catalogue, There’s a Place: A Three Decade Survey of Photographs by J. Shimon & J. Lindemann, designed by Dan Saal of Studio Saal Corporation, to supplement the exhibition. The volume contains 99 photographs and essays by art-blogger Rachele Krivichi, freelance curator Dan Leers, MoWA director of exhibitions Graeme Reid, art historian and gallery director Debra Brehmer, and acknowledgments by Laurie Winters.The plate section includes some stereo version photographs. These are shown as color, double-image photographs set against a black background. To see the 3-D effect, use a standard stereo Lorgnette viewer (see below). Stereo Realist cameras were manufactured in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from 1947 to 1971 and are one of the camera types we’ve experimented with.
Download There’s a Place exhibition catalog PDF (free!) from MoWA
Purchase There’s a Place Hardcover catalog with dust jacket (11×13″) from Blurb
Purchase There’s a Place Softcover catalog (8×10″) from Blurb
Purchase 3D Lorgnette stereo viewers from 3Dstereo.com or amazon.com
• PRESS •
Read Museum of Wisconsin Art “There’s a Place” exhibition announcement
View Art Elkon’s FaceBook Photo Album from Saturday, April 11, 2015 2-5 pm
View MoWA Video from Opening Reception on Saturday, April 11, 2015 2-5 pm
Read Milwaukee Magazine “In a Flash” April 2015 by Claire Hanan
Read West Bend News “There’s a Place Like Home” April 4, 2015 by Alex Zank
Read Herald-Times-Reporter preview April 8, 2015 by Staff
Read “Hey I wrote that Page” from Looking at all the Art in arll the Wrong Places by on April 13, 2015 by Rachele Krivichi
Read Shepherd Express “Midwest Story” April 14, 2015 by Judith Ann Moriarty
Read Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “Shimon & Lindemann Retrspective a good way to begin considering duo’s legacy” April 17, 2015 by Mary Louise Schumacher
Listen to WUWM Lake Effect “Partners in Life and Art” April 22, 2015 by Bonnie North
Read Urban Milwaukee Dial “Two Photographers Who Speak as One” Review May 8, 2015 by Rose Balistreri
Read Wisconsin Gazette “MoWA puts photographer duo in viewfinder” May 9, 2015 by Kat Murrell
• BACKGROUND ª
Listen to There’s a Place (Lennon/McCartney, 1963 by the Beatles on YouTube takes 1-13:
“There is a place
Where I can go
When I feel low
When I feel blue
And it’s my mind
And there’s no time when I’m alone”