Unwavering Vision
produced by Documentary Arts in association with on-situ
About
Credits: Produced by Documentary Arts in association with on-situ, by Alan Govenar, Jean-Michel Sanchez, and Julien Roger
Details: An immersive digital exhibition featuring over 5,000 images
Unwavering Vision is an immersive digital exhibition designed to delve into the International Center of Photography’s extensive photographic archive, using an interactive touch screen table to activate large-scale images projected onto a huge screen.
Explore images from across social history capturing some of the most poignant events of the modern age, as well as documenting everyday life in the United States and around the world. Unwavering Vision features over 5,000 images that span the history of photography and include selected audio segments, film clips and biographies.
Images of social and cultural change are indelible. They strike us with the power of visual reality, framed in an instant by photographers working to document the intensity of human experience. Many of the images in the International Center of Photography’s collection illustrate what ICP’s founder Cornell Capa termed “concerned photography.” The photographers and their work demonstrate a humanitarian impulse to use pictures to educate and change the world, not just to record it. Over more than forty years, ICP’s collections have grown to encompass the history and diversity of the medium, from its beginnings to the present day. Unwavering Vision embodies both the tenacity of these “concerned” photographers and the commitment of ICP to open dialogue about image making, past and present.
Unwavering Vision is an intuitive journey, an interactive experience to explore the associations between and among thousands of images that are not usually seen together. By selecting one of the keywords associated with an individual photograph, a timeline stretches or contracts to show its theme distribution in the corpus of the installation. The user can thus summon hundreds of photographs by browsing 32 different timelines. Each image can be enlarged and scrutinized in detail. The selection of a photographer’s name gives access to his or her images, as well as selected biographical elements (texts, audio and video extracts). A panoramic projection faces the tactile table. It creates a physical relationship between the public and the photographic collection, constantly renewing itself as a human-sized, immersive exhibition in new and unexpected ways.
