Anne turyn biography

Anne Turyn (born 1954) is an.
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Anne Turyn

ANNE TURYN

"I am always curious as to what gender people assume the protagonist is.

Is it male? Is it female? Do the pink Sno-balls mean it's female?"

Aperture: There seem to be thematic links to childhood in your photographs. Are they autobiographical?

Anne Turyn: These images are from “Illustrated Memories,” a visual novel that I started in 1983. It’s a fictional, visual autobiography that depicts a life through illustrated memories.

What I am really interested in, more than childhood, is how the brain works and how we remember. And it is during childhood that we learn the rules of society and culture.

A: You used the term “a visual novel.” What does that mean?

AT: What I wanted to do was make something that would function like a novel, but instead of using language, it would use photographs. Rather than create a character that had a specific biography, I wanted to create more of an emotional resonance, so that if one were looking at the entire body of work, or a section of it, rather than a single image, there would be a kind of harmonic buildup.

A: Is there

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Anne Turyn / Top Stories | Exhibition

Her photographic work often combines image and text and moves between apparently objective truths and personal, subjective memories.
The series New York City in 1979 was shot to accompany Kathy Acker’s texts in the ninth issue of Top Stories – a literary chapbook that Turyn founded and edited. Showing the city in black and white, the photographs depict New York’s streets, people, shop windows, architecture and motion, often blurry or from a curious angle, like a passing glimpse or a memory. Capturing the fast-moving nature and complexity of the city, the photos are not only challenging Acker’s text, but stand for themselves. Flashbulb Memories is a reference to a psychological phenomenon in which a person combines a significant incident from world history with detailed pictorial memories. These constructed impressions and memories relate to what the person was doing and seeing at the time they learned about the news. The series is an example of how Turyn’s work combines image and text. The text functions as “objective” truth, the image, o

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Turyn is an artist, and founded and edited the chapbook series, Top Stories. Turyn’s work has been included in exhibitions at Museé des beaux-arts, Le Locle (Switzerland), Kunstverein (Amsterdam), La Salles de Bains (Lyon, France), Weiss Berlin, Spectacolor Billboard with the Public Art Fund, Kunstverein (Amsterdam), the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Kunsthalle Bern (Switzerland), the Walker Art Center, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Center for Photography Woodstock, Art City, Denver Art Museum, George Eastman Museum, among others. Turyn’s work is included in public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Walker Art Center, George Eastman Museum, Center for Creative Photography, Denver Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and others.

Her awards include Paris Photo-Aperture Best Catalogue of the Year shortlist 2020, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellowship, C.A.P.S. Fellowship, Art Matters, Inc.

B.F.A., Antioch