Sentences with phrase «documentary tradition»

Opie has long been one of the preeminent inheritors of the social documentary tradition.

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

Employing and upending documentary traditions as a means to disrupt media stereotypes, Frazier collaborates with her mother and grandmother as fellow artists, giving them agency in depictions of themselves, their family, and the broader community.

In contrast to the Turner Prize exhibition, which focuses quite tightly on what is often termed «post-internet» tendency work — the New Contemporaries selectors have chosen to focus largely on work that comes out of narrative or documentary traditions instead.

The Notion of Family elegantly shifts from images steeped in the humanist documentary traditions of artists like Gordon Parks and Walker Evans, to the conceptual and activist practices of artists like Martha Rosler and Allan Sekula.

Her identity as a mixed - race, Thai - American woman is an important part of the work she makes, working against a history of colonialism, otherness, and patriarchy in documentary tradition.

During his career of almost 60 years, Mr. DeCarava the founder of a school of African - American photography that broke with the social documentary traditions.

Layering the rich dark tones of the photogravure and emerald green of the spit bit e etching to produce a vibrant enchanting effect, this print undermines the documentary tradition with a darker, personal and fantastical dimension.

With a small number of contemporaries, he championed the elevation of color photography as art and redefined the documentary tradition in American photography.

In her reworked 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.

Philip - Lorca diCorcia, who combines the documentary tradition with fiction, film, and advertising, is known for capturing everyday life through the camera lens.

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.

Steeped in the documentary tradition and seeking to uncover aspects of each city's identity and sense of community in her penetrating photographs, this series focuses on Chicago — the American «city of architecture.»

Part of the fascination with all photography is that the medium is firmly grounded in the documentary tradition.

Featuring friends and acquaintances in unguarded moments, his striking aesthetic of low - key beauty offered a new direction for the documentary tradition and reflected an atmosphere of underground creativity and identity politics.

In A Haunted Capital, Frazier discards the objective relationship between artist and subject that has characterized the documentary tradition.

Where Sherman represents a highly conceptual and staged approach to photography, Strömholm is considered the most prominent figure in a documentary tradition that has long prevailed in Swedish photography.