New Photography: Create, Collect, Compile

In less than twenty years, the cultural concept of a photograph has evolved to something almost—almost—unrecognizable. What was once a private, treasured, physical object is now a public, ubiquitous tool. Photographs are simultaneously less real—in terms of physicality and of authentic representations of a moment—more directly a medium through which we perceive, and construct, our reality. 

In the New Orleans Museum of Art's exhibition New Photography: Create, Collect, Compile, four photographers engage and critique the new world of photographs. Collectively asserting that photography today currently exists as a kind of open-source language, the four artists use various approaches to exploring the new aspects of creation, collection, and compilation when it comes to narratives of identity, community, and power. noma.org.