Produced by lying directly upon the paper, the photograms anticipate not simply Le Va's collisions, but Yves Klein's Anthropometries (1960 — 1961), Jasper Johns» Skin drawings (1962)(fig. 19), David Hammons» bodyprints (1969 — 1976), and Bruce Conner's ANGEL self -
portrait photograms (1973 — 1975)(fig. 18).
Not exact matches
This substantial Ruff overview accompanies a major retrospective survey at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, and contains all of his most renowned series, including
portraits, disasters, sky and cityscapes, internet nudes,
photograms, manga images, magnetically generated images and found press photographs.
In
portraits, still lifes and
photograms, the photographer documents Atlanta's Ethiopian and Eritrean communities and their daily objects.
Ron Saunders, from San Francisco, uses sepia toned silver print
photograms to combine fragmented human
portraits and nature.
Clockwise from top left: Man Ray, Untitled (Self -
Portrait with Camera), 1932; William Eggleston, Untitled (Greenwood, Mississippi), 1973; Edward Steichen, Rockefeller Center, c. 1932; László Moholy - Nagy,
Photogram, 1925 - 28, printed circa 1929; Irving Penn, Woman with Bare Back, New York, 1961, printed in 1984; Hiroshi Sugimoto, Baltic Sea, Rügen» (Triptych), 1996; Tina Modotti, Property of Various Owners, 1929; Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, 1918; Ansel Adams, Portfolio VI; Robert Mapplethorpe, Calla Lily, 1988; Diane Arbus, National Junior Interstate Dance Champions, 1963.
Landscape
Portraits is a new series of
photograms in which Oppenheim uses very thin slices of wood as negatives applied directly to a photosensitive surface.
Lisa Oppenheim Landscape
Portraits (Poplar)(Version III), 2015 Set of four silver gelatin
photograms in Poplar frames 51 1/2 x 54 3/8 inches; 130.8 x 138.1 cm (overall) 25 3/4 x 26 3/4 inches; 65.4 x 67.9 cm (each frame)
Lisa Oppenheim Landscape
Portraits (Birdseye Maple and Cherry)(Version I), 2015 Two silver gelatin
photograms in Birdseye Maple and Cherry frames 38 5/8 x 50 1/4 inches; 98.1 x 127.6 cm (overall) 38 5/8 x 24 5/8 inches; 98.1 x 62.5 cm (each frame)
Lisa Oppenheim Landscape
Portraits (Apple)(Version I) 2015 Set of four silver gelatin
photograms in Apple frames 49 1/2 x 49 1/2 inches; 125.7 x 125.7 cm (overall) 24 3/8 x 24 3/8 inches; 61.9 x 61.9 cm (each frame)
Lisa Oppenheim Landscape
Portraits (Engineered Eastern Red Cedar)(Version I) 2015 set of four silver gelatin
photograms in Eastern Red Cedar and Birch frames 50 3/8 x 54 1/4 inches; 128 x 137.8 cm (overall) 24 7/8 x 26 3/4 inches; 63.2 x 67.9 cm (each frame)
Lisa Oppenheim Landscape
Portraits (Butternut)(Version I) 2015 Set of four silver gelatin
photograms in Butternut frames 24 3/8 x 24 1/4 inches; 61.9 x 61.6 cm (each frame) 49 3/8 x 49 3/8 inches; 125.4 x 125.4 cm (overall)
Lisa Oppenheim Landscape
Portraits (Some North American Trees), 2014 (detail) Set of five black and white silver gelatin
photograms with unique frames 98 x 64.45 cm (framed) each
Lisa Oppenheim Landscape
Portraits (Birdseye Maple and Cherry)(Version II), 2015 Two silver gelatin
photograms in Birdseye Maple and Cherry frames 38 5/8 x 50 1/4 inches; 98.1 x 127.6 cm (overall) 38 5/8 x 24 5/8 inches; 98.1 x 62.5 cm (each frame)
American multimedia artist Lisa Oppenheim, known for her evocative camera-less photography via the
photogram and experimental films, is exhibiting a new series of works taking inspiration from natural woodgrains entitled Landscape
Portraits at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York.
I was impressed with the wit and brazenness of his early
photograms of chicken bones and
portraits of ashy feet — the former a weathered stereotype (black catnip, if you will), the latter a reference to the bane of all black folk (or at least their mothers).
PART 2: LIGHT AND SHADOW The ESSAY «Light and Shadow» discusses... flicker films, Plato's allegory of the cave, H.P. Robinson's allegorical images, working with the absence of light, Tony Conrad's slow emulsions, photography as fairy magic and sun drawings, Adam Fuss's
photograms, Hiroshi Sugimoto's feature - length exposures, Cai Guo - Qiang's explosions, light as cancerous radiation, light and shadow in city planning, contrast and lighting in works by Rineke Dijkstra, Jacob Riis, Weegee, Adrienne Salinger, and others, O. Winston Link's environmental light, darkness and light as metaphors for knowledge, morality, and power, pools of light in Expressionism, film noir, and works by Hans Bellmer, Esther Bubley, and Anna Gaskell, Group f / 64, available light in the work of Roy DeCarava, Yinka Shonibare's interpretation of Dorian Gray, public projected images, Indonesian shadow play, Gregory Barsamian's kinetic sculptures, flickering
portraits by Christian Boltanski, Kara Walker's silhouettes, and more...