Hunter Gatherer: Salvaged Stories of American Culture
Photographer: David Ricci
Exhibit Title: Hunter Gatherer: Salvaged Stories of American Culture
Location: United States
This exhibition includes imagery of Black memorabilia that contains racially charged and potentially disturbing content. These artifacts represent painful aspects of American history.The photographs are not intended to glorify or perpetuate harmful stereotypes, but rather to examine them critically as part of our shared responsibility to acknowledge history's difficult truths.
"Hunter Gatherer" is a multi-layered photography project that explores the complex landscape of American resale marketplaces.The imageswere made over a seven year period at antique malls, collectible fairs, and flea markets throughout the United States. The objects and displays were photographed on site as found - to date, in over 200 locations across 22 states. The work interweaves rampant consumerism, racism, objectification, pop culture, beauty standards, and religion – revealing these as interconnected threads in the tapestry of American culture.
A photobook featuring 92 images from this body of work alongside commentary by renowned author, critic, and curator Cheryl Finley, will be published by MW Editions in NYC in November 2025.
Kickstarter Campaign link for the book Hunter Gatherer: Salvaged Stories of American Culture will be posted here.
Tentative dates 7/27 - 8/30
Interviews:
PBS: https://www.pbs.org/video/aha-610-david-ricci-when-photography-and-science-collide-pjv/
fStop: https://www.fstopmagazine.com/blog/2022/interview-with-photographer-david-ricci/
Berkshire Fine Arts: http://www.berkshirefinearts.com/02-14-2018_david-ricci-s-edge-of-chaos.htm
Reviews:
Boston Globe / Boston Herald: http://www.davidricci.net/reviews/
Lenscratch: https://lenscratch.com/2022/04/david-ricci-edge/
www.davidricci.net
David Ricci is a self-taught American photographer. He has produced several bodies of work that address human presence in deserted environments and reveal an underlying order in chaotic landscapes. He often employs complex visual structures and repeating motifs that allow his large-scale prints to resonate with gesture, pattern, and rhythm. His current project, Hunter Gatherer, marks a major shift in his work in terms of subject matter, process, and perspective. Photographs taken at antique shops and collectible fairs throughout the U.S interweave themes of rampant consumerism, gender roles, objectification, beauty standards, pop culture, racial/ethnic stereotypes, and Christianity, offering up a poignant social and cultural commentary and challenging viewers to confront uncomfortable truths about the American persona, past and present. A book based on this body of work is planned for publication by MW Editions in New York City in late 2025.
He has had over two dozen solo exhibitions, was the recipient of the Annual Curator’s Award from The Center for Photographic Arts and was longlisted for the Aesthetica Prize in the UK. Ricci has received grants from LensWork Magazine, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Artists Resource Trust, and the Martha Porter Fund. His limited edition prints have been acquired by Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Fogg Museum, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Hyde Collection, Danforth Museum, Smith College Museum, and others.
Ricci’s work has been featured in several publications including Lenscratch, Photomonitor, F-Stop, and Luminous Landscape. His monograph, EDGE (2022 Fall Line Press), was awarded the ForeWord Reviews Indies Awards gold prize in photography, and second prize at the PubWest Annual Book Design Awards.
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