Sentences with phrase «documentary photographs taken»

Nadav Kander (b. 1961) Fine art photographer best known for his documentary photographs taken in China along the Yangtze river.

She is also represented by the Berlin gallery Exile, whose website features a selection of her recent work plus some fascinating documentary photographs she took of performances by Joan Jonas and Jack Smith.

Not exact matches

The short documentary above (made by a Microsoft team from the Netherlands) is a conversation with photographer Charles O'Rear, who in 1996 took the photograph «Bliss,» which became the default desktop wallpaper of Windows XP, and as a result is one of the most - viewed photographs in history.

The primary interview for this documentary is Steve's wife Barbra Minty McQueen who, as a New York model and amateur photographer, took hundreds of never - before - seen candid photographs.

Corsicato compiles footage taken from around Schnabel's home, recent interviews conducted with family and friends, and an assortment of photographs and film clips spanning the artist / director's life in an effort to, if one trusts this documentary's title, provide an intimate portrait of Schnabel's psychology as it was generated from the unusual circumstances of his youth.

Faces Places is built on such a simple concept, almost too slight for a feature documentary: Varda and mural artist JR go on a road trip across rural France to take photographs of the people they meet, and paste the pictures over local structures.

Finding Vivian Maier is the critically acclaimed documentary about a mysterious nanny, who secretly took over 100,000 photographs that were hidden in storage lockers and, discovered decades later, is now among the 20th century's greatest photographers.

Featuring glam portraits of stage greats, irreverent fashion photographs, and documentary pictures for the London Times, this show takes a close look at the best of Lord Snowdon.

«LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER: Performing Social Landscapes» @ Carré d'Art - Musée d'Art Contemporain Nimes, France Photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier «s first solo institutional exhibition in France presents selections from several of her documentary projects, including the video «Frazier Take on Levi's» and photographs from «Pier 54,» and the foundation of her work, images that examine the decline of the population and steel industry of her hometown of Braddock, Pa. («Campaign for Braddock Hospital» and «The Notion of Family»).

This current exhibition also features small, mainly grey paintings, which appear to be taken from old documentary photographs.

There are also documentary photographs and other archival ephemera, books printed on campus by BMC poets and sound works of readings, and a stage and piano for performances to take place regularly during the run of the exhibition.

As the dismantling of the one - of - a-kind site - specific installation The Floating Piers take place, we revisit its success and open days with the documentary photographs of Mara Palena.

Her reworked photographs, taken by the artist in her native Karachi, Pakistan, present a destabilized documentary tradition.

In the re-worked photographs, taken by Bhabha in her native Karachi in southern Pakistan, the artist undermines the documentary tradition with a darker, personal and often fantastical dimension.

Stoller's photograph, taken in 1955, is a small, documentary - style image that allows the striking design of the newly completed chapel to speak for itself.

Whether recreating miraculous glass objects pictured in Renaissance paintings or modernized versions of non-extant glassware from documentary photographs, McElheny's work takes as its subject the object, idea, and social nexus of glass.

Bracketed chronologically by Rosler's well - known photo - text work The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems (1974/75) and her highly influential essay In, around and afterthoughts (on documentary photography)(1981), this series takes its place alongside Rosler's photographs of airports, roads, shop windows, and public transportation as part of a career - long photographic practice.

Other works record specific places, such as Rudy Burckhardt's documentary - style photograph of a gas - station in Astoria, New York taken in 1940 and Andrew Lenaghan's detailed landscape Off Route 52, Irvine, Kentucky (1998) painted on site during the artist's travels across the South.

Seen whole, «Jeff Wall» gradually downgrades this distinction, encouraging us to wonder whether we undervalue the factuality of a contrived photograph and dream too much on what we take for the veracity of documentary.

Based on early 20th century images found in the Library of Congress archive — a long - favored resource by Oppenheim — the photographs depict the backs of textile workers taken by documentary photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine.

Once it becomes clear that a claim is likely to be made, care must be taken not to damage or dispose of any documentary evidence, which includes not only paper files but emails, photographs, computer disks, tape recordings and any other means of recording or storing information.