Before saying goodbye to the global blitz of «super blood moon»
eclipse photography and chatter (already supplanted by the momentous NASA confirmation of signs that water flows on present - day Mars), I wanted to post a short note I received Monday morning from Deborah Hamon, an environment - focused artist from Marin County, Calif. (You can see her Arctic «pompom project» here.)
I totally failed at any sort of
eclipse photography so you and your lovely sun have completely beaten me!
Not exact matches
At the end of the day, join your TravelQuest astronomer for an informative discussion of
photography techniques,
eclipse safety, and the latest weather updates for tomorrow's big event.
In his new series «
Eclipse,» Paolo Ventura continues his exploration of memory, history and narrative using the tools of
photography, painting and the stage.
Numerous artists re-contextualize pictures of solar phenomena from the 19th century to today, tracing the intersecting histories of
photography and scientific knowledge, including Simon Starling's video installation Black Drop (2012) and Sarah Charlesworth's multi-photo work Arc of the Total
Eclipse, February 26, 1979 (1979).
While the exhibition begins around 1970,
photography has been dependent on the sun since its inception — the principles of the camera obscura were discovered as a result of attempts to observe solar
eclipses, and the word
photography itself means writing with light.
By that time, she had spent almost two decades collaging found images to expose and manipulate the ideological structures that underpinned
photography, crafting series such as «Modern History,» 1977 — 79, for which she excised the text from the front pages of newspapers so that the size and position of the remaining images — of statesmen or a solar
eclipse or a masked Sandinista guerrilla — laid bare a visual grammar of power.
Totality (2016)-- a commission with Arts Council Collection and Somerset House — is a mirror ball comprising over 10,000 images of solar
eclipses, nearly every one that has been documented by humankind either by illustration or
photography.
While, some might argue, painting has been
eclipsed in the media in recent decades by minimal and conceptual art, installation,
photography and film, REALITY testifies to the survival of painting as a medium and reveals the impact of British painting today.