Sentences with phrase «elisofon photographic archives»

A decade later, he set up the Aerial Photographic Archive for Archaeology in the Middle East — an initiative to map the area that now has more than 140,000 aerial images.

The opening credits sequence, accompanied by a rendering of Camille Saint - Saens «Carnival of the Animals,» provides sepia - toned historical period photographs (from the Library of Congress, various museums and photographic archives, and the NY Public Library) of turn - of - the - century city and tenement life (portraits, closeups, slices of life including play, marriage, work, politics, friendships, transportation, domesticity, and leisure time).

«Teachers benefit from building a lesson with primary sources because these photos are artifacts created during the time period under investigation,» says Elizabeth Lay, a retired English teacher from Oakland, California, and now content editor of Picture This, an online photographic archive created by the Oakland Museum of California History.

In addition to the Foundation offices, and at a later date, we plan to set up a research area where visiting scholars may study the papers of the two artists as well as the photographic archives of their works of art.

Somnyama Ngonyama, meaning «Hail, the Dark Lioness», represents a newly personal approach taken by Muholi as a visual activist confronting the politics of race and pigment in the photographic archive.

Danish artist Mette Juul works primarily in video and photography, focusing on photographic archives and images as narrative structures.

Appropriated from the Library of Congress» photographic archive, the images depict adolescent textile workers — primarily young women with physically misshapen backs — that Hine photographed to illustrate the damaging effects of textile manufacturing on the spine.

Her research interests are concerned with the photographic archive, the legacies of African art objects in museum collections, and gender and sexuality in contemporary art of Africa and the African diaspora.

Through the use of photographic archives, oral history, and contemporary photographs, Houston Cofield retraces both the imagined and real landscapes around Sardis Lake.

Typically for Zaatari the Stockholm exhibition involves found photographic archives, multimedia installations, and film and video, both documentary and fictional (and works that sit somewhere between the two).

Unpublished Manuscript of «Cardé on the Figure: Digressions of a Philogynist» with Photographic Archive

At times hauntingly beautiful and engagingly uncanny, People in trouble laughing pushed to the ground was produced by Broomberg and Chanarin in response to an invitation to work with the Belfast Exposed photographic archive in Northern Ireland.

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Harris reaches into the past through his photographic archive as an allegory of history repeating itself.

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA, the Chrysler Museum mined the agency's photographic archive, selecting pictures that highlight its rich history.

She draws upon historical film, photographic archives and collections of artefacts to generate fantasy episodes.

Lyle Ashton Harris's Once (Now) Again (2017), for instance, presents the artist's photographic archives from the 1980s — 90s, chronicling his participation in the art world and the gay and black communities.

Taryn Simon's exhibition at the architecturally distinguished Milwaukee Art Museum offered up a generous and inquisitive photographic archive that spanned ten years and three distinct projects: «The Innocents,» 2002, portraits of people wrongfully convicted of violent crimes; «An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar,» 2007, images of sites and holdings generally inaccessible to the public; and «Contraband,» 2010, a series that documents, with clinical precision, items seized over a given week from airline passengers entering the United States.

This ongoing project subsequently evolved into a vast photographic archive that spans over four decades and documents many major Los Angeles thoroughfares, including Santa Monica Boulevard, Melrose Avenue, and Pacific Coast Highway, shot in 1974 and 1975, and more than 25 other Los Angeles streets that Ruscha photographed since 2007.

Published on the occasion of her 2013 exhibition at Aspen Art Museum, Lorna Simpson: Works on Paper highlights four recent bodies of work on paper that explore the complex relationship between the photographic archive and processes of self - fashioning, including a new group of works being developed during her time as the AAM's 2013 Jane and Marc Nathanson Distinguished Artist in Residence.

Sonnier, a talented draftsman, immersed himself in studies of bone relics of Mastodons and other herd animals in the photographic archives and dioramas at the Museum of Natural History before embarking on the series.

Now, as then, The Uncanny brings together a wide range of figurative sculptures, mannequins, dummies and sex - dolls, animatronic puppets, body - casts and anatomical body fragments and models, religious statuary, stuffed animals, photographs, film stills and photographic archive material; as well as Kelley's own oddball collections of ephemera, which he calls his «harems», and which are now in the possession of another Los Angeles collector.

These representations include photographic archives and related artifacts, which she treats as material to produce new images and installations.

LIBRARY London is proud to launch a new exhibition from the photographic archive of the Smithsonian anthropologist, William Crocker.

Anne, named «America's Best Curator» by TIME, was granted special access to the photographic archives for the excavation from a collection of over 14 million images.

For the past year, Marcy Werner, curatorial assistant at UofL's Photographic Archives, has been hard at work on a database collecting all the fine prints in the extensive collection.

Each explosion is documented in a photographic archive, showing a unique perspective of Venice during the opening days of the Biennale: 100 Billion Suns (Venice)

Tags: A.M. Duggan - Cronin, Alfred Martin Duggan - Cronin, Archives, Contemporary Africa Art, Ethnography, Malick Sidibé, Photographic Archives, Photography, Portraiture, Samuel Fosso, Santu Mofokeng, The Walther Collection, The Walther Collection Project Space, Zanele Muholi

The exhibit featuring more than 440 images from the Library of Congress» photographic archives is on view at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles from April 21 to September 9 and features two images by SKG aritst Jerome Liebling.

Event Crossing Archives Dec. 1 10:00 — 18:00 One - day conference and international panel discussing overarching questions relating to the perspective, function and significance of photographic archives for society and artistic practice.

Philpott's photographic archive speaks of this through a range of material and subjects.

A Selection of reproduced photographs from the Dorothy H. Hoover Library Photographic Archives

Rotem is currently pursuing her Dissertation project, in which she explores the intersections of Zionist photographic archives, the image of the body and the writing of a national territory under the guidance of Prof. John Tagg (Binghamton University, NY).

The vintage silver prints from Bartlett's photographic archive that belong to a private collector who assembled a large portion of Bartlett's photographs, negatives, and slides over several years.

They make use of newspapers, books, magazines and turn - of - the - century photographic archives as source material.

The Speed is also proud to collaborate with the Photographic Archives at the University of Louisville and the Faulkner Morgan Archive on presenting photographs by John Ashley documenting the LGBTQ community of Lexington, Kentucky.

His artistic practice is concerned with different possibilities of dealing with photographic archives and their respective manifestations, as well as with the interrelations and...

Few artists have accessed the ability to take a concept akin to Civil Rights era culture, something so clearly revolting, and generate something as graceful as Gordon Parks» photographic archive.

You can view and search Roman Vishniac's photographic archive at the International Center of Photography «s great website, here.

Meatyard's last project before his death was The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater, a project based on the common snapshot album featuring friends and family all wearing masks.Photographs by Meatyard are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art in New York; George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, New York; Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; and University of Louisville Photographic Archives, Kentucky.

Georgina Masson, 1912 - 1980: Selections from the Photographic Archive.

Lorna Simpson: Works on Paper highlights a recent body of work that explores the complex relationship between the photographic archive and processes of self - fashioning.

The noted photographer and installation artist, who often turns arrangements of images into wild, immersive environments, will show selections from her extensive photographic archive, which covers the two decades beginning in 1995.

Georgina Masson, 1912 — 1980: Selections from the Photographic Archive, (exhibition catalog edited by A. Capodiferro and C. Lauf), Milan 2003.

The Foundation has acquired the Henry Moore photographic archives of Errol Jackson, John Hedgecoe and Frank Farnham.

Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Since its inception in 2008, the project is involved with contemporary issues like the changing perception of authorship, de - and recontextualization of images, appropriation, artistic approaches to photographic archives and the rise of the remix culture.

Activating her work is an iconography of historical material drawn from a range of primary sources: photographic archives, antique books, vestiges, and an infinite variety of found objects.

An exhibition in celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives Africa ReViewed: The Photographic Legacy of Eliot Elisofon focuses on Elisofon's innovative photography and its impact on portraying the diverse arts and cultures of modern Africa.

Prompted by the absence of folk art in Witte de With's exhibition history, Decorations by Kasper Bosmans also features documents taken from artist Asger Jorn's photographic archive 10,000 Years of Nordic Folk Art, a project part of his Scandinavian Institute for Comparative Vandalism, founded in 1961 as an interdisciplinary institute aimed at «vandalizing» art history.