For Polke, the camera was an essential tool, like a pencil or a brush, and a retrospective of Vanessa Beecroft's Photographic Work, that showcase an ensemble of
Polaroids created by the artist between 1993 and the present day, which were shown as a solo exhibition at the Palazzo Reale in Milan (2016).
Not exact matches
A lot of people were buying up the old
polaroid cameras and
creating art photos and thinking that was way cooler than all the new digital cameras.
It all started with me gitfing some
polaroid instagram pictures to my boyfriend for his birthday and then again for Christmas last year, and since then I was thinking of
creating a sort of photo diary of our relationship.
With The Kids Were Alright, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver has
created an exhibition that includes all of Ryan McGinley's photographs from that time, the work he completed after his rise to national prominence, plus over 1,500 of McKinley's
Polaroids that will be shown here for the first time.
In an illustration of the technology of the day, the exhibit includes rare, hand - crafted photo montages and a series of panels
created from multiple
Polaroids.
On the occasion of Mana Contemporary's exhibition The T'ang Horse: Anthony Quinn, writer Jarrett Earnest
created a playful book about a series of
polaroids from a made - for - TV - movie production of Old Man and the Sea (1990) starring Anthony Quinn.
While running that gallery, he published his own artist book (Points of Departure: Roadside Memorial
Polaroids, The Jargon Society, 2012) and became the inaugural director of the now - prominent Souls Grown Deep Foundation, an organization
created by the pioneering Southern collector Bill Arnett to preserve the work of self - taught African - American artists — an undertaking soon to be celebrated in an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The
Polaroids in this exhibition have never been exhibited before, and were only recently rediscovered in the process of
creating a digital archive of this body of work.
Social documentarian and artist Nancy J. Parisi will
create souvenir
Polaroids for guests, who will take home gift bags sponsored by Yelp!
Over the past ten years, Lyle Ashton Harris has
created a series of over 200 intimate, sepia - toned portraits termed «Chocolate
Polaroids,» capturing each sitter's face and back.
David Hockney
creates his vast photo collages with
Polaroids; the instant development of the film allows him to quickly reshoot sections, if necessary.
In the early and mid - 80's he
created series of captions that explored classical aesthetics from many angles, using new techniques and scale, such as
Polaroids, photogravure, platinum, dye transfer prints and Cibachrome.
Experimenting with photography in the mid-1970s, Hockney went on to
create his famous photocollages with
Polaroids and snapshot prints arranged in a grid formation, pushing the two - dimensionality of photography to the limit, fragmenting the monocular vision of the camera and activating the viewer in the process.