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Lisa Oppenheim: A Durable Web
Burning of the Imperial Refinery, Oil City PA, 1876/2012 (Version VI)
The Sun is Always Setting Somewhere Else
Correct posture for 4663. Need for advice of examining physician.
Lunagrams (Ann Craven) 33
Landscape Portraits (Butternut) (Version II)
Fish Scales, Fish Scale, Véritable Hollandais (Version 25)
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Lisa Oppenheim

American, b. 1975
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Lisa Oppenheim uses appropriated photographs from diverse sources such as government files and online photographic archives to investigate collective memory, loss, and forgetting. She is keenly interested in the magic of photography, collections of visual history, and images that eerily represent both absence and presence. In Art for the Public: Images from the Collection of the Port Authority (2009), Oppenheim re-photographed a 1986 art catalog that depicted the public art collection managed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Some pieces in the collection were stored in the World Trade Center, and the objects Oppenheim re-photographed had been destroyed during the terrorist attack on 9/11. In a 2010 series of "Lunagrams", she used original 1851 negatives to create a series of lunar portraits. The negatives are the earliest known photographic images of the moon.


American, b. 1975, New York, New York, based in New York, New York

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