“A Visual Vocabulary of Feelings” Featuring David Bleich
Image City Photography Gallery
722 University Ave.
Jul 4, 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm

“A Visual Vocabulary of Feelings” featuring David Bleich offers a unique exhibit of large images that represent feelings people share described by a one word title. Three sets of images: in a crowded Manhattan created by people in civilization; in a wetland, The Slough, found in Ft. Myers, Florida and cordoned off to promote tourism; and in the Aialik glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska, a natural phenomenon in the wilderness. Each image presents a wide variety of details, and the one word title suggests the common observation that feelings occupy attention and space while challenging us to account for their many parts and meanings. We in society court this combination of actual scenes and images of these scenes as rich sources of understanding and pleasure.

David Bleich is a photographer specializing in large images, and a professor of English at The University of Rochester. He states: “My first book, entitled “Readings and Feelings,” published in 1975, struck the note you may find in this exhibit. I have been interested in the difficulty people (mostly men) have in articulating feelings. I have studied this phenomenon since high school. I noticed that I was a respondent—a reader—of my own photos. That meant that a different part of my mind was at work in viewing, than in making images. Part of our work as makers and respondents is to get these two parts of our minds to work together, to find “the right word” for the feelings that lead to making images, and those that follow from viewing them.”

In Addition: Susan Smith is exhibiting in the Neuberger Gallery. Steve Dent, d dargan testa, and Michael Shoemaker are Visiting Artists. Our Guest Photographer is Hal Schuler. Gallery Partners are Dick Bennett, Marie Costanza, Reggie Greene, Steve Levinson, Gerry Iuppa, Nicholas Jospe, Gil Maker, Don Menges, Luann Pero, and Sheridan Vincent.

There is no admission fee and Image City Photography Gallery is fully accessible. Learn more here.

Image: Complexity by David Bleich