Making use of the technical and iconic potential of photography in its various forms, Pryde creates visually arresting and conceptually precise images that play upon the relationship between two dominant
historical uses of the camera: scientific analysis and artistic endeavor.
Not exact matches
As with Michael Mann's Public Enemies, the director's
use of digital
cameras clashes with the
historical recreations before giving them new life, a fitting aesthetic revisionism to go along with the constantly redefined parameters
of the stories Ruiz conjures from the ether.
In his work, Muniz has
used a wide range
of materials — from chocolate and sugar to junk and toys — to create images, often art
historical, that he records with a
camera.
The exhibition brings together artistic works that present very different
historical narratives and, beyond that, different
uses to which the
camera can be put: as a device for producing matter -
of - fact recordings or biographical accounts, for subjective documentation or
historical analysis or as a means
of capturing the vestigial traces
of an action.