A team of researchers at U.C. - Berkeley are examining
how photographic style has evolved over the years, using quite the unique data set: yearbook photos.
Not exact matches
Through a collection of paintings, photographs, textile designs, and mannequins
styled in original fashions that replicate his
photographic strategies, the exhibition will enable visitors to make connections between Sheeler's
photographic experimentations at Condé Nast and
how the artist translated this work into the industrial paintings and photographs that established his career.
Painting, however, continues to have a large public and young artists setting out to be painters now need more than ever to see
how artists of earlier generations successfully resisted the status quo and remained outside what evolved into an academic
style, for this is what much of the conceptual, film and
photographic work has become; merely another academy.
The selection highlights the extensive study of material, shape, and
style in Artschwager's work, while revealing
how the artist's unrelenting investigation of art objects and images has been informed by the equalizing lens of
photographic reproduction in the 20th century.
Through a collection of paintings, photographs, Sheeler's own textile designs, and mannequins
styled in original fashions that replicate his
photographic strategies, the exhibition and catalogue will enable visitors to make connections between Sheeler's
photographic experimentations at Condé Nast and
how the artist translated this work into the industrial paintings and photographs that established his career.