Sentences with phrase «contemporary uses of photography»

Recently she has given lectures on the Center for Land Use Interpretation at MoMA's graduate symposium and on contemporary uses of photography in Ghanaian funerals at the Triennial of African Art.

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The director of photography, Lance Acord, used a lightweight Aaton 35 camera to reproduce a nostalgic aesthetic similar to the snapshot, «like a memory and a love story» according to Coppola, to photograph the particular combination of traditional and western influences characteristic of contemporary Japanese culture (Coppola quoted in Mitchell, n.p.).

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With 382 guestrooms and suites, 199 fully - serviced residences, 12 restaurants, bars and lounges, Talise Spa and one of the largest conference centers in Abu Dhabi, Jumeirah at Etihad Towers is furnished in a contemporary style, using materials including Italian marble, hand - tufted carpets and photography depicting life in Abu Dhabi during the 1960s from the private collection of His Highness Sheikh Suroor bin Mohammed Al Nahyan.

Their love of the history of photography and their use of historical photographic techniques, such as the cyanotype, has produced an original and contemporary body of work.

We strongly encourage experimentation, the use of traditional and contemporary approaches, innovation, and the dialogue between photography and other artistic mediums.

Strategies that emerged earlier in the circles of the surrealists and New Vision photographers — the untutored «photographic mistake,» photography as a form of literary pointing — adopted by the artists in this exhibition have subsequently been absorbed by the contemporary generation using photography as conceptual art, from Gabriel Orozco to Hank Willis Thomas.

British artist Tom Hunter uses photography to comment on the contemporary social realities of specific sub-cultural groups, predominately in East London, such as squatters and travelers, among whom he lives and works.

After completion of a triple major in Art History, French and Women's Studies from Columbia University, she focused her work on using contemporary fashion and beauty photography as a means to address gender stereotypes and male domination in commercial media.

Moving Pictures brings together some 150 works by 55 contemporary artists who use photography, films and video as a means of creative expression.

Abidin's art uses various media such as videos, video installations, multi media sculptures and sound based installations and photography to explore the issues of the contemporary world that we are living in.

The curator Okwui Enwezor's provocative 2008 exhibition at the International Center of Photography «Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art» (the title of which references philosopher Jacques Derrida's 1995 book, Archive Fever) highlighted numerous examples of artists who employ archival documents in their work.

The exhibition explores the development and evolution of Frank's characteristic style — including his use of low light, pioneering focal strategies, and unconventional cropping — which revolutionized contemporary photography and understanding of the photographer's relationship with the larger world.

I use photography and printmaking to weave documentation of Brown - related cases with contemporary imagery of human rights abuse and advocacy.

While some Pop artists use photography to react to consumer culture, Robert Heineken repurposes found magazine imagery to talk about the media's role in objectifying women, Richard Prince and Sarah Charlesworth of the Pictures Generation push the boundaries of image appropriation, Christopher Williams talks about means of image production and contemporary artist Lucas Blalock confuses subject and backdrop through Photoshop.

These artists explore contemporary atmospheres using a variety of media including photography, video, and sculpture.

Each of them uses photography as a means of recording, reflecting on, and questioning contemporary life and recent history in the region.

«While many contemporary artists employ the tools of digital technology to alter photographic images, Diggory stands out for using photography and Photoshop as the catalyst for painting.

«Works like Aerospace Folktales altered the way in which documentary photography was conceptualized and used in contemporary art, and the work continues to be an urgent model for representing the political and social realities of our world.»

An American living in France, Cameron Jamie uses music, photography, drawing, film, and video to investigate the quirky, ritualistic activities that are part of contemporary pop culture (wrestling and craftslike mask - making being among his current interests).

The Biennial will showcase more than 40 contemporary Arab artists using photography and related visual media to address a broad range of aesthetic and cultural values impacting Arab culture.

The mission of Whitespace is to expand and introduce the viewer to current trends in contemporary art by creating international exhibitions by major mid-career contemporary artists using various mediums: including painting, sculpture, photography, drawing and video.

A new exhibition, on view April 9 — August 21, 2011, entitled Unsettled: Photography and Politics in Contemporary Art, in the Julien Levy Gallery in the Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building of the Philadelphia Museum of Art presents work by nine artists who used photography to address some of the most salient political and social issues of the late 1970s through the early 1990s, including feminism, racism, the AIDS crisis, and gaPhotography and Politics in Contemporary Art, in the Julien Levy Gallery in the Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building of the Philadelphia Museum of Art presents work by nine artists who used photography to address some of the most salient political and social issues of the late 1970s through the early 1990s, including feminism, racism, the AIDS crisis, and gaphotography to address some of the most salient political and social issues of the late 1970s through the early 1990s, including feminism, racism, the AIDS crisis, and gay activism.

The value and potential of this form is acknowledged by a wide spectrum of contemporary artists who freely combine the use of text with performance, installation, video, photography, drawing, painting, sculpture, and printmaking.

En Foco, Inc. supports contemporary fine art and documentary photographers of color and diverse cultures, using photography as a platform to speak on behalf of issues related to cultural equity and access.

Jiang uses video, painting, photography, installation, writing and other mediums, blurring the boundaries between fictional documentary, mediated images and private narratives to reveal the intersections and segmentations between the body, desire and emotion of different individual and its representation or imagination in contemporary society.

Pop artists appropriated the aesthetics of contemporary advertising, made use of popular means of production and expression, such as photography, film, or comics, and they lifted them to the status of contemplative objects, while at the same time scornfullyparodying the clichés of so - called high art.

Making use of both analog and digital photography, as well as video, they interweave document and fiction to create pliable narratives that explore contemporary relationships.

In New York, there was last year's New Museum Triennial, «Surround Audience,» whose participants addressed «a society replete with impressions of life, be they visual, written, or constructed through data,» and «Ocean of Images,» the 2015 iteration of MoMA's «New Photography» showcase, featuring artists who use «contemporary photo - based culture, specifically focusing on connectivity, the circulation of images, information networks, and communication models.»

Not only does it highlight a major trend among contemporary Chinese artists towards the use of video and photography, many of the artists in the exhibition are also internationally renowned, thereby providing audiences in Singapore a rare opportunity to see their works... This exhibition, a major exhibition of contemporary Chinese photography and video, was the first of its kind for Singapore.

AW: One curiosity about contemporary art is that there is a terrific interest in the old languages and devices of painting, but generally in the work of photographers and film - makers — or artists using photography and film — but contemporary painting itself sometimes looks back to the history and sometimes doesn't.

Knew Normal presents a selection of recent works from established and emerging contemporary artists who use paintings, drawings, photography, sculpture and wearable art to bear witness to the moments when environments, including the body, become more difficult or awkward to inhabit for reasons generally attributed to climate change.

The artists in the show push the boundaries of contemporary photography experimenting new ways to use it.

Copublished by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and ARTBOOK D.A.P., it includes essays by Manilow Senior Curator Dieter Roelstraete on metamorphosis in Starling's work, and by Mark Godfrey, Curator of International Art at Tate Modern, on the artist's uses of photography.

Traces of the imaging process appear in many of these new works, and the use of color re-contextualizes contemporary digital photography's use of filters, color effects and manipulation.

Another trend that has widened the definition and scope of contemporary art has been the conceptually driven use of both photography and language as the substance of numerous works of art — in Kiefer's photographic collages, in Kruger's words and photographic images, in Bruce Nauman's neon phrases, in Lawrence Weiner's painted words, in Holzer's billboarded, carved, electronically reproduced, or otherwise created linguistic neotruisms, and in many other artists» works.

[4] He has also curated numerous exhibitions in many other distinguished museums around the world, including Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity, The Walther Collection, Germany; Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, International Center of Photography; The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945 — 1994, [14] Villa Stuck, Munich, Martin - Gropius - Bau, Berlin, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and P.S. 1 and Museum of Modern Art, New York; Century City, Tate Modern, London; Mirror's Edge, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Tramway, Glasgow, Castello di Rivoli, Torino; In / Sight: African Photographers, 1940 — Present, [15] Guggenheim Museum; Global Conceptualism, Queens Museum, New York, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, List Gallery at MIT, Cambridge; David Goldblatt: Fifty One Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, AXA Gallery, New York, Palais des Beaux Art, Brussels, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, Witte de With, Rotterdam.

This piece — its documentary mode, its gritty surface, its use of technology — is the perfect beginning for the Museum of Contemporary Photography's Phantoms in the Dirt, a group exhibition curated by Karsten Lund, which currently showcases sixteen artists.

In honour of UK Friends NMWA 10th anniversary as a UK charity, we will sponsor an exhibition of contemporary photography exploring ideas using the human body, Terrains of the Body: Photography from the National Museum of Women iphotography exploring ideas using the human body, Terrains of the Body: Photography from the National Museum of Women iPhotography from the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

While developing a career in wall painting and surface finishing, she explores the use of fresco as well as traditional painting techniques in contemporary practices, and works equally with murals, painting, drawing, photography and mixed media.

The exhibition brings together works by over 30 contemporary photographers in a display that addresses photography's ongoing transformation and questions the use of printing in our digital age.

The eleven artists juxtapose divergent approaches in conversation with each other, reflecting on primal questions consuming artists over the millennia: Elliot Arkin's conceptual use of web - based commerce spins an absurdist view on the commodification of artists; Babette Bloch's stainless steel reassessments of nature and artistic precedent limn positives and negatives through light; Christopher Carroll Calkins's street photography captures moments of under - the - radar narratives; Valentina DuBasky's acrylic and marble dust works on paper and plaster are a contemporary comment on the prehistory of art; Gabriel Ferrer's performance - like in - the - moment sumi - ink drawings on handmade paper reflect on memory and personal narrative; Christopher Gallego's realist, pure light - filled oil painting elevates the ordinariness of an artist's space to visual poetry; Ana Golici, in pergamano and collage, takes inspiration from 17th Century female naturalist, entomologist and botanical illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian to explore questions of science, nature and objective truth; Emilie Lemakis's monumental amplification of an ancient Greek krater employs scale to upend perceptions for the viewer's reconsideration; Mark Mellon's bronzes address the oppositions of movement and stillness; the alchemy of Michael Townsend's uncontrolled poured acrylic paintings equate the properties of materials with the turbulence of the universe; Jessica Daryl Winer's engagement with luminous color and choreographic line reflects in visual resonance the sonic history of a musical instrument.

2008 You Complete Me, Western Bridge, Seattle, USA TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, USA (travelled to Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta) HeartQuake, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel That Was Then... This Is Now, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island, USA Die lucky Bush, MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Belgium MATRIX / REDUX, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM / PFA, Berkeley, USA Risky Business Art, Kunstpanorama, Lucerne, Switzerland Aurum: L'or dans l'art contemporain, Centre PasquArt, Biel Worlds on Video, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence Africa On: Beecroft, Jaar, Kentridge, Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan Arte ≠ Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960 — 2000, El Museodel Barrio, New York Pictures in Series, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, New York Framing and Being Unframed: The Uses of Documentary Photography, Ezraand Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA

2009 FOR THE USE OF THOSE WHO SEE, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany GAGARIN the Artists in their Own Words - the first Decade, SMAK Gent; Belgium FOR YOU / PARA USTED, The Daros Latinamerica Tapes and Video Installations, Daros Foundation, Zürich, Switzerland Continental Rifts, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA New Acquisitions and Donations 2007 & 2008, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark Aletheia — Positions in Contemporary Photography, Helsinki City Art Museum / Art, Museum Meilahti, Helsinki, Finland The Fear Society / Pabellón de la Urgencia, Arsenale Novissimo, Tese di San Cristoforo, Tesa 92, Venice 10 Printemps en Automne, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris The Third Moscow Biennale, Garage Center of Contemporary Culture, Moscow Cream International Festival for Arts and Media, Yokohama, JapOF THOSE WHO SEE, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany GAGARIN the Artists in their Own Words - the first Decade, SMAK Gent; Belgium FOR YOU / PARA USTED, The Daros Latinamerica Tapes and Video Installations, Daros Foundation, Zürich, Switzerland Continental Rifts, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA New Acquisitions and Donations 2007 & 2008, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark Aletheia — Positions in Contemporary Photography, Helsinki City Art Museum / Art, Museum Meilahti, Helsinki, Finland The Fear Society / Pabellón de la Urgencia, Arsenale Novissimo, Tese di San Cristoforo, Tesa 92, Venice 10 Printemps en Automne, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris The Third Moscow Biennale, Garage Center of Contemporary Culture, Moscow Cream International Festival for Arts and Media, Yokohama, Japof Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark Aletheia — Positions in Contemporary Photography, Helsinki City Art Museum / Art, Museum Meilahti, Helsinki, Finland The Fear Society / Pabellón de la Urgencia, Arsenale Novissimo, Tese di San Cristoforo, Tesa 92, Venice 10 Printemps en Automne, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris The Third Moscow Biennale, Garage Center of Contemporary Culture, Moscow Cream International Festival for Arts and Media, Yokohama, Japof Contemporary Culture, Moscow Cream International Festival for Arts and Media, Yokohama, Japan

Raisa Kabir is multi-disciplinary artist, weaver and writer, who uses contemporary textiles, sound and photography to interrogate, and question concepts around the politics of dress in connection to gender, race, and sexuality.

Harold Offeh's work encompasses live performance, photography, video and social practice, often using humour and comic everyday situations as a means to investigate the feelings of alienation, frustration and happiness thus referring to the broader themes of communication and difference in the contemporary society.

Henner's appropriative practice explores the use and value of photography and its relationship with contemporary experience.

He has curated numerous exhibitions in some of the most distinguished museums around the world, including Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, International Center of Photography; The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945 — 1994, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Gropius Bau, Berlin, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and P.S. 1 and Museum of Modern Art, New York; Century City, Tate Modern, London; Mirror's Edge, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Tramway, Glasgow, Castello di Rivoli, Torino; In / Sight: African Photographers, 1940 — Present, Guggenheim Museum; Global Conceptualism, Queens Museum, New York, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, List Gallery at MIT, Cambridge; David Goldblatt: Fifty One Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, AXA Gallery, New York, Palais des Beaux Art, Brussels, Lenbach Haus, Munich, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, Witte de With, Rotterdam; Co-Curator of Echigo - Tsumari Sculpture Biennale in Japan; co-curator of Cinco Continente: Biennale of Painting, Mexico City; Stan Douglas: Le Detroit, Art Institute of Chicago.

The Art Institute of Chicago has organized the first major survey of influential artists of this period who used photography in ways that went far beyond its traditional definitions as a medium — and succeeded thereby in breaking down the boundaries of all mediums in contemporary art.