Tuesday, June 08, 2004  
Just Press Their Button: A History of Photography in the Comics

:: Posted by max @ 6/08/2004 03:46:00 PM
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Comics with a focus: From Superman to Dick Tracy, a new exhibit looks at why so many characters from comic books are wielding cameras



Kids have learned a lot from Archie comics. They've taken heed of lessons on the sometimes delicate matter of double dating and seen the value in a skilled soda jerk, and devoted readers may also have picked up a thing or two about photography. In Just Press Their Button: A History of Photography in the Comics at the Presentation House Gallery in Vancouver, among the more than 250 examples of the enduring bond of photography and comics are 20 Archie comics in which the redhead and his gang are either posing for or shooting pictures.-->>



From the Presentation House Gallery web site

The Just Press Their Button exhibition is comprised of three separate but related parts. This room has original comics artwork by three Vancouver artists, David Boswell, Robin Konstabaris and Colin Upton. The comics by Robin Konstabaris and Colin Upton were especially created for this exhibition. David Boswell’s ‘pages’ are taken from chapters in the life of Reid Fleming, World’s Toughest Milkman that he has been creating over the past twenty-plus years. The east room contains pre-comics graphic material, mainly from the 19th century, depicting the trials and tribulations of photographers and their subjects in the first sixty years after photography’s invention. The west room contains examples of comics that depict cameras and photographs in the lives of comics characters, and those characters operating as photographers. The origin of this exhibition lies in an article that Vancouver photographer Denes Devenyi published in the August 1989 issue of Photo Life magazine. In that article Devenyi explored not only the wide range of photo-related material in comics history, but introduced a key idea raised by this exhibition – that photography’s popularity might rest, in part, on its depiction in the comics. -->>



    
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