Interested in issues of perception and identity, Wegman used wordplay and simple line drawings to turn
black and white photographs into simultaneously humorous and strange images / documents that destabilize the familiar and reveal life's essential oddity.
I decided to experiment with painting them as they appeared and became fascinated by the process of transcribing
a black and white photograph into a black and white painting.»
Not exact matches
«It's amazing new proof that the technique of simply splitting
white light
into different colors can be used like puzzle pieces to reconstruct speeds, directions,
and shapes of material surrounding
black holes — places we still can not
photograph with our telescopes.»
Photographed by Miguel Reveriego at the Catalina Beach Club in Atlantic Beach, New York, Margot steps
into a mixture of nautical - inspired
black,
white, navy
and red outfits styled by Jessica Diehl, truly getting
into her 50s character.
Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written
and directed by Vasilis Raisis (
and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age
and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes
photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui,
and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious
black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end,
and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke;
and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits
and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs,
and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned
into a Muppet.
Each box contains nine slim accordion books that expand
into a 7.5 - foot - long gallery of
black and white photographs.
This video starts out as a straightforward
and unassuming introduction to a selection of his
black -
and -
white landscape
photographs, but it turns
into something poetic
and frighteningly up - to - date that speaks to a much broader constituency.
Students use their
black and white photograph which they then draw
into and then students do a mono - print which they then collage
into and develop
into the bright, media, pattern outcome like Chila Burman.
On each visit, Albers took
black -
and -
white photographs of pyramids, shrines, sanctuaries
and landscapes, which he later assembled
into rarely seen photo collages.
Kiluanji Kia Henda's
black -
and -
white photographs feature a group of people assembling what could be Cerrillo's frames
into empty cubes — Donald Judd's boxes without the volume — because in the age of social media, it's only the exterior that counts.
Entitled Dog
and Mesh Tights, this immersive multiscreen projection of
black and white photographs will plunge viewers
into the commotion of the contemporary city, capturing fragments of daily life from its unrelenting urban hustle
and bustle.
Painting walls, floor
and most of seven sculptural tableaux a medium gray, Pictures Generation artist Barbara Bloom transforms David Lewis
into a monochrome stage set, echoing the vintage
black -
and -
white photographs of actors
and literary figures that constitute the starting point for each of her works.
Extensive installation views capture the dynamic combination of visual imagery
and text that has come to characterize Pettibon's practice,
and a selection of gritty
black -
and -
white photographs by Andreas Laszlo Konrath offers an intimate glimpse
into the artist's working process.
In conversation with Hans - Ulrich Obrist, Tillmans states: «They're part of a series of pictures in which
black and white photocopies were made
into large - scale
photographs.
As sound
and image falter, new compositions arise, changing the
photograph of
and sounds from a domestic interior
into a galaxy of musical feedback
and glowing images of
black -
and -
white abstraction.
Photographed in
black and white, the female models» bodies
and clothing have synergy with the graphic backdrops constructing the scenes: a curve of the waistline in the foreground of one woman merges
into the calligraphic line of the background.
This digital C - print, based on an image from the Robert Langmuir African American
Photograph Collection at Emory University, presents artist Sanford Biggers as a remixed minstrel in a top hat
and tails, his face
and clothing bisected
into two halves — one
white and one
black.
Step
into the show itself,
and you see rather randomly placed
photographs, both color
and black -
and -
white, some grainy, others sharp as tacks.
Do You Have Work Tomorrow, 2013, Series of 32 screen shots of a staged conversation on an iPhone transformed
into Black and White photographs developed in a dark room.
The original
photographs were taken in colour, but after review, Mari decided to change them
into black and white.
Main Gallery: The Image to the Woman Tenesh Webber's series of unique large - scale
black and white photographs and photograms evidence
and exploration
into the layering of visual information.
Alexandra Berg's pencil drawings «would fool anyone
into thinking they were
black and white photographs.»
Playing with texture, investigating the performative nature of 20th century painting
and translating works
into black and white from colour
photographs with the use of charcoal, are at the core of what attracts Longo, who likes «the twist of making a charcoal drawing based from a
photograph of a painting.»
Then she
photographed her «choreographies» [sic], overlapped
and multiplied them,
and transformed them
into bitmap files as sequences of
black and white pixels so that the Jacquard loom could «read» them.
Since the mid-1990s has also produced
black -
and -
white works on paper, as well as montages of individual negatives, fusing them
into what appears to be a single
photograph using digital technology.
Dayanita Singh's Museum Bhavan contains nine accordion books that expand
into a 7.5 - foot - long gallery of
black and white photographs.
Hammond also produces
black -
and -
white photomontages that draw on elements of Russian Constructivism
and Dada, which she reworks digitally, collaging, retouching,
and developing shadow
and tone before converting the digital file
into a negative
and printing the resulting image in the darkroom as a gelatin silver
photograph.
This performance extended outside the confines of the structure
into the wider gallery space, containing wall - based neon sculptures of a muscular faun,
black and white photographs of a naked couple in choreographed poses, text - based brightly coloured paintings,
and abstract sculptures reminiscent of limbs, rendered in concrete
and highly polished
white plaster.
These were made by placing three different
black -
and -
white photographs into Adobe Photoshop's red, green,
and blue color channels, thus yielding a multilayered color image similar to double exposures in analog photography.
A selection of gritty
black -
and -
white photographs by Andreas Laszlo Konrath offers an intimate glimpse
into the artist's working process.
Standouts include Carrie Mae Weems» holographic narrative about race, sex,
and politics portrayed by ghostly characters on a burlesque stage; The Propeller Group's video that draws parallels between funeral practices in Vietnam
and New Orleans, along with the collective's sculptures of tricked - out musical instruments, which were also
photographed with members of Louisiana marching bands; Glenn Kaino's installation of water tanks that turn military machines
into coral reefs; Jean - Michel Basquiat's paintings
and works on paper that reference the cultural legacy of the Mississippi Delta
and the South; Camille Henrot's video exploration of the universe by way of the storage rooms of the Smithsonian Institution; Tavares Strachan's 100 - foot long neon sign declaring «You belong here» from a barge on the Mississippi River;
and Andrea Fraser's monologue, in which she recreated a heated debate by New Orleans city council members during a 1991 vote to racially integrate the Mardi Gras krewes — changing her voice
and expression as she dynamically alternated between speakers, both
black and white.
The landscape - oriented postcard, which is mounted near the top of the piece of paper, is horizontally split
into two halves: the top half consists of a
black and white photograph of Silbury Hill in Wiltshire while the bottom half contains a long printed text entitled «THE LEGEND OF SILBURY HILL».
Made at bus stops throughout the city, the large - scale
black and white photographs capture the isolation of the urban metropolis through formally composed
and carefully detailed views of desolate boulevards disappearing
into the horizon, peopled only by the Los Angeles underclass waiting for the next bus.
There are also Glenn Ligon's small paintings of text taken from «Invisible Man,» Ralph Ellison's 1952 novel, that reflect notions of
black identity; Nikki S. Lee's
photographs of herself made - up
and dressed to fit
into different communities — hip - hop, punk, rural
white;
and Catherine Opie's portraits of lesbian, gays, bisexuals
and transgender people in Los Angeles.
The
black and white scheme carries
into the kitchen, which was inspired by a
photograph of an all -
white kitchen Sabrina loved.
An easy way to bring these elements
into a room would be through
black and white photographs or a replica of the Eiffel Tower.