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Please join us for the opening of
"Hopeful"
An exhibition by David Levine
Saturday, October 3, 6-8 pm
Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn, NY

Exhibition on view October 3-24, Tuesday-Saturday 12-6 pm

"Hopeful" explores headshots—photographs of actors looking for work rather than publicity portraits of stars—both as genre and as material artifact. First appearing in the 1950s, these peculiar images routinely disregard conventions of portraiture: the intended viewer, who is in a position to hire the actor, is offered no environment, professional emblems, or trace of social context.

Today, New York City agents alone receive an estimated ten thousand headshots weekly, ninety-nine percent of which are routinely thrown out. What is the ecological impact of this rejected material? And how much waste—not only trashed photographs but also image CDs, demo tapes, slides, and manuscripts—does the culture industry need to generate in order to maintain its meritocratic reputation?


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NEW YORK, NY
PERMIT # 3928