News

Summer 2010

Book review in upcoming issue of Soura, The Middle East Photography Magazine:





Upcoming international group exhibition will also travel to Dresden, Germanhy in 2011:



February 21 - May 9, 2010

Abandoned Apartment, Cotta District, Dresden, 2005 is included in the exhibition Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection, selected by Yasufumi Nakamori, Assistant Curator of Photography, Museum of Fine Arts–Houston.


From left: Robert Polidori, Sze Tsung Leong, Zhang Dali, and Fredrik Marsh.     Photo: Anne Tucker

Transformation of the City
accompanying exhibition text Yasufumi Nakamori

Images of cities—their built environments, people, and invisible networks such as cyberspace—are among the most enduring and comprehensive documents of history. But how does one photograph a city in the process of transformation?

This section of the exhibition looks at cities around the world with a focus on the urban life cycle: birth, life, death, rebirth, and the “time and space” in between these phases. Sze Tsung Leong’s photograph of Nanjin, China, documents the history of China’s old capital across several historical periods through its architectural sedimentations. Robert Polidori, Boris Mihailov, and Fredrik Marsh photographed cities in distress, such as New Orleans, Kharkiv in the Ukraine, and Dresden.  

Gordon Matta-Clark and Carlos Garaicoa actively intervened in the city life-cycle. Matta-Clarke dissected aging houses in Paris and Chicago, then photographed the cuts, whereas Garaicoa created a drawing to project a city’s future based on a photograph of Havana in the process of ruination. Edward Burtynsky and Brian Ulrich found visible signs of thriving cities: Burtynsky in the enormous cafeteria of a factory in Ningbo, China, and Ulrich in the check-out counters of a megastore in Granger, Indiana.

This section also features photographs by William Eggleston selected from his 1989 project The Democratic Forest, for which he photographed cities in the United States and Europe.


Through March 27, 2010:

Transitions: The Dresden Project | Photographs by Fredrik Marsh

Exhibition Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - Saturday, March 27, 2010
Reception: Friday | February 26 | 5 to 7pm

The OSU Urban Arts Space
50 W. Town Street, Suite 130
In the Historic Lazarus Building
Columbus, Ohio 43215
T: (614) 292-8861

Tuesday–Saturday: 11 am to 6 pm
Thursday: open late, 11 am to 8 pm
Admission is free

Edited by Andreas Krase with essays by Andreas Krase, Rod Slemmons and Holger Starke; afterword by
Fredrik Marsh. Publisher: Technische Sammlungen Dresden / Sandstein Verlag, Dresden, 2009.
Hardbound, 104 pp., text in English & German, 72 black & white and color illustrations (including 2
fold-out panoramas), 9 h x 12 w inches. Designed and printed in Germany.

 
Major underwriting for this publication generously provided by the Dresdner Stiftung Kunst &
Kultur der Ostsächsischen Sparkasse Dresden  & Technische Sammlungen Museen der Stadt
Dresden. Additional financial support provided by the Landeshauptstadt Dresden – Amt für
Kultur und Denkmalschutz and funds from a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Fellowship.

In the Americas, please order on-line from:

Email: fredrik.marsh@me.com
ISBN 978-3-941843-01-1
ISBN 978-3-940319-74-6

Price: USD $50 + $7.00 S&H (Domestic USA)

In Europe, please order from:

Museum’s edition/ Museumsausgabe:
Technische Sammlungen Dresden
Museen der Stadt Dresden
Junghansstraße 1–3 · 01277 Dresden
www.tsd.de/publikationen
ISBN 978-3-941843-01-1

From EU bookstores/ Buchhandelsausgabe:
Sandstein Verlag
Goetheallee 6 · 01309 Dresden
www.sandstein.de
ISBN 978-3-940319-74-6

Preis: Euro 27.00 + S&H
Available September 2009



06/2009

To Those Who Come After

a new project funded by a 2008 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Concentrating my efforts again on one city, I traveled to Guangzhou, People's Republic of China in Autumn 2008 and Spring 2009. I hope to add selections from this new portfolio to the website in the near future.




Bus Stop, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China. 2009.    





Noon Hour, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China. 2009.