Author Archives: Bernard Yenelouis

About Bernard Yenelouis

Detroit. Movies. Modernist architecture in Los Angeles. Marcel Proust. Walter Benjamin. Vernacular photography. And more.

Pablo Lerma: Greenfield and forensic imagination

Posted on September 26, 2020 by Bernard Yenelouis

1. What are archives meant to do? Materials held in suspension for eternity, they hover between the inert death of purpose and a potential for future measurement. Like embalmed body parts in an Egyptian tomb meant to transport ritual order … Continue reading →

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Notes on Queering the Collection(s) @ the ICP Library

Posted on August 19, 2019 by Bernard Yenelouis

from the publisher “Throughout 2018, the ICP Library collectively produced more than six in-house library installations and events considering representation in libraries at large. The success of this initiative resulted in an increase of the ICP Library’s holdings of queer, … Continue reading →

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Photo books, exhibitions & related events 2018 edition, part 1 – Peter Hujar, Oliver Wasow

Posted on November 26, 2018 by Bernard Yenelouis

Peter Hujar (1934-1987) The exhibition and catalog Peter Hujar – Speed of Life at the Morgan Library & Museum (January 26 – May 20, 2018) is an auspicious way to begin a review of the past year. The acquisition of … Continue reading →

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Temporary Autonomous Installations in All Used Up: Dismantling the Gaze x Queering the Collection, October 17, 2018 at ICP Museum

Posted on October 29, 2018 by Bernard Yenelouis

  To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize “how it really was.” It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger. For historical materialism it is a question of holding … Continue reading →

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OMG, Bring a Book! The Library Goes to Critical Jamming

Posted on April 16, 2018 by Bernard Yenelouis

Yours truly and ICP Head Librarian and Archivist Matthew Carson participated in the recent panel From X-Files to The Matrix: Reality Disintegrated, held on Sunday, March 4 at the ICP Museum. In the words of organizer Claudine Boeglin: The 90s. … Continue reading →

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Stephen Grebinski, Keyed to Masculine Comfort, 2015

Posted on February 5, 2018 by Bernard Yenelouis

Faced with the excess and diversity (where to start?) of publications in Queering the Collection, currently installed in the ICP Library, I was happy to find (& just by judging a book by its cover) a familiar name: Stephen Grebinski. … Continue reading →

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“I am in Paris.”

Posted on January 22, 2018 by Bernard Yenelouis

Following conversations with my colleagues at the ICP Library  about an event related to our current photobook display Je est un autre: The Vernacular in Photobooks, I decided to present selections from a small collection of films stills I accumulated … Continue reading →

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Photography is Magic

Posted on September 25, 2017 by Bernard Yenelouis

Who was Irving Desfor? Unknown to us up until now, his book/photo album Great Magicians In Great Moments came to the ICP Library when the personal library of our founder Cornell Capa was folded into the ICP collection after Capa’s … Continue reading →

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What played at the Roxy?

Posted on August 28, 2017 by Bernard Yenelouis

The Roxy Theatre opened at 153 W. 50 St., between 6th and 7th Avenues in 1927 with the film The Love of Sunya, produced by and starring Gloria Swanson. The theater seated 5,920 people. An apogee of “movie palace” distinction … Continue reading →

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