In her 2005 photogravure Disappearing Act Screen Test, Rafferty can be seen juggling several large hoops, mimicking late 19th and early 20th
century documentary photos of psychic mediums and other performers, wherein their actions are stylistically captured several times in a single image to convey their motion and wonder.
Not exact matches
She says early on she was «obsessed with early 20th
century social
documentary photography and that in the
photo history books that she was trained with one of the only significant African Americans was Gordon Parks.»
We've been sharing behind - the - scenes
photos of Art in the Twenty - First
Century: Season 8 on our Instagram for months now, but this is the first post here on the ART21 Magazine dedicated to uncovering what goes on behind the camera, as we film our
documentary series on contemporary art and artists.
Salvatore Arancio's practice, encompassing ceramic and sculpture,
photo - etching, collage, video and animation, re-appropriates found images, taking inspiration in 19th
century books, geologists» drawings, natural history museums collections, botanical gardens,
documentaries and Internet found footage.