It is an image that embodies the physical immediacy and speed of her process, and almost cheekily evokes Hans Namuth's
iconic studio shots of Jackson Pollock from the early 1950s.
Not exact matches
As an assistant to the famed photographer Mathew Brady, and later running his own
studio, Gardner created hundreds of portraits and documentary battlefield
shots that remain
iconic and poignant.
This is immediately apparent in his
iconic portrait of the Flatiron Building (1947 — 48), but it is also discreetly true of a 1938 photograph of de Kooning in his
studio, and sensationally true of a 1968 image of leg and lamppost shadows on a patched sidewalk; this
shot looks like a virtuoso brush drawing by a Chinese master.
Beginning in early 2008, Monk found inspiration within Ed Ruscha's 1967
iconic photographic series and limited edition book, Twentysix Gasoline Stations, where Ruscha
shot black & white photographs of twenty - six different gas stations found along the legendary Route 66 highway on a road trip from his
studio in Los Angeles to his home state of Oklahoma.