{"id":1090,"date":"2025-09-05T14:15:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/reframingphotography\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=1090"},"modified":"2025-09-05T14:15:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:15:43","slug":"kurt-weston","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/videos-of-artists\/kurt-weston\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Weston"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/s3-euw1-ap-pe-ws4-cws-documents.ri-prod\/reframing-photo\/Weston2.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><em>Obscura \u2013 Kurt Weston Segment<\/em><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Damon Stea, video production and direction<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photographer Kurt Weston shows himself in the process of obstructing the bed of a flatbed scanner to simulate the psychological and physical impact of being legally blind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Description<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The still photographs appearing in \u201cObscura\u201d are self-portraits from Weston\u2019s\u00a0<em>Blind Vision<\/em>\u00a0series, created by utilizing a flatbed computer scanner. Images in sequence as they appear in the video clip: Blind Vision (2003), Losing the Light (2004), Floaters (2007), Peering Through the Darkness (2003), Shattered Scream (2007). Images exhibited at The Kennedy Center, Washington DC; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Berkeley Art Museum; San Francisco Art Commission Gallery and Internationally in \u201cSight Unseen\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Web Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kurt Weston\u2019s website<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurtweston.com\/\">http:\/\/www.kurtweston.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kurt Weston at Mindfruit Studios<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mindfruitstudios.com\/?p=115\">http:\/\/mindfruitstudios.com\/?p=115<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":459,"menu_order":0,"template":"artist","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"topic":[9,12,16],"class_list":["post-1090","artist","type-artist","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","topic-light-shadow","topic-presentation","topic-vision"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}