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"Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History"
Through Feb. 19.
Hiroshi Sugimoto incorporates his own work of large-scale oceanscapes with artifacts that he has collected over the years from East Asia and Japan.
Japan Society
333 East 47th Street
New York, NY
(212) 832-1155
From the Metropolitan Museum web site:
Ghosts, spirit séances, levitation, auras, ectoplasm...extraordinary photographs of these and other paranormal phenomena will be on display in The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult, an exhibition devoted to the historical intersections between photography and the once wildly popular interest in spiritualism.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult
September 27, 2005–December 31, 2005
Rephotography entails finding the exact spot where an old photograph was taken and shooting the scene again. Professionals use equipment similar to what was used to make the old photograph, and try to mimic exactly the framing, time of day and other salient aspects of the original picture.
The show presents 50 cityscapes from the Modernist photographer Berenice Abbott's 1939 book Changing New York, each paired with a picture shot from the same perspective with the same model large-format camera by the commercial photographer Douglas Levere between 1997 and 2003.
New York Changing: Douglas Levere Revisits Berenice Abbott's New York
Museum of the City of New York
Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
(212) 534-1672
Now through Nov. 13.