KM: I've always thought
of photograms as a kind of imprint because unlike a photograph, a photogram records a physical encounter between the subject and the material; the mark of an interaction.
«Through an economy of means that yields variation within repetition, Webber's minimalist forms reveal the infinite possibilities
of the photogram as both medium and process.
Not exact matches
Since 2005, the artist has been working on a series called The Times, for which he uses front pages from The New York Times
as the basis
of photograms and collages.
She, too, situates the work between the appearance
of poured paint, almost out
of Morris Louis, and its origins
as photograms.
Her work is easy to consider in art historical terms
as we see direct parallels between the amorphous monochromes
of the more atmospheric
photograms and Helen Frankenthaler's color field paintings.
The image begins with a solar
photogram of a figure (s) printed on a contact speed paper known
as «printing - out - paper.»
The photographic process
of both the gold - toned printing - out - paper
photograms as well
as the «Type R» prints comprises several steps.
A solid - white
photogram by Deschenes shifts in tone
as it's exposed to light throughout the duration
of the show: another comment on how art changes in a museum setting.
Introducing the aspect
of time, Andro's Book is a photograph
of a worn Edvard Munch catalogue positioned in a blue - toned studio setting that mimics the blue markings left on the book's cover from partial sun - exposure; Alexi - Meskhishvili describes the catalogue
as a «found
photogram.»
At just under eight feet, the swirling abstractions have lost any hint
of their origins
as photograms, beyond their ghostly contrast between black and white.
The collection has grown to represent the full historical range
of the medium, including early daguerreotypes, anonymous stereoviews, and cartes de visite; gelatin silver prints by Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and Ansel Adams; Kenneth Snelson's expansive panorama; landscapes by Carleton Watkins;
photograms by Man Ray and Lotte Jacobi; and works by a range
of contemporary American photographers, such
as Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, and Andy Warhol (Polaroids).
In larger - scale works directly mounted to the wall, lengths
of black fabric are pinned at four corners, resembling flayed skin and, just
as readily, a protective shroud; behind, there are gently suspended rolls
of paper cascading down the length
of the fabric or a partially unfurled
photogram.
Her conceptual expansions
of photographic abstraction manifest in series such
as Sleight
of Hand and Haptic Wonders (both 2011 — ongoing), which primarily focus on the
photogram.
A few
of the digital negatives
of the
photograms were accidentally created
as positives.
Featuring works by leading artists from the 1960s to the present day, the exhibition takes
as its starting point Robert Heinecken's seminal series
of photograms Are You Rea, 1964 — 68,
as well
as works by «Pictures Generation» artists, including Richard Prince, Barbara Kruger and Louise Lawler, who came
of age during the media - driven consumer culture
of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Often the result
of trial and error in chemical and exposure procedures — including solarizations and
photograms — Robertson's images are intensely multi-layered, often standing alone
as three - dimensional works.
Andrew Russel Coate's
photograms map the pulsing lights
of fireflies bouncing inside
of mason jars, to record the alchemical and accidental
as well
as a lyrical abstraction
of summer nights.»
The exhibition brings together a series
of untitled drawings
as well
as two unique
photogram installations.
He completed a series
of eight
photograms, and
as a result Thomas and Jo - ey decided that each
of the following participants would continue to produce eight
photograms for the archive.
In this new series he works on the idea
of photograms which were played around with by artists such
as Man Ray, Moholy - Nagy.
They range from postwar experiments with darkroom processes, such
as photograms and photomontages; to 1970s feminist performances conceived for the camera; to political and documentary engagements with themes
of labor history and globalization in the 1980s; to post-appropriative forms
of archival and historical reconstitution since 2000.
I was inspired to make this
photogram by two things: finding in the New York Times a documentary photograph
of a house blown apart by a hurricane, and thinking about the notion
of shape
as form in high Modernist painting.
This volume includes, amongst other series, selections from «Diary / Landscape,» in which Welling matched the writing
of his ancestors» letters with Connecticut winter landscapes; «Glass House» a meditation on Philip Johnson's 1949 residence, shot using colored filters; examples from his «Degrades,» pure color
photograms created in the darkroom
as well
as selections from his recent «Wyeth» and «Choreograph» track his early interest in painting and dance.
«The Unphotographable» fascinates not only because it includes coincidences such
as the resemblance between Wolfgang Tillmans» 2001
photogram «Mental Picture # 97» and the bit
of brain recorded in Carl Wernicke's «Psychiatric Clinic in Wroclaw.
Fotografie als Bühne, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria Le Temps Emprunté / The borrowed time, Museum
of Modern Art Dubrovnik, Croatia Toward Abstraction: Photographs and
Photograms, The de Young Museum San Francisco, USA Zum Strand / To the beach, Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne, Germany Photo - OP, Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, IL, USA en todas
as partes.
Rees commissioned Batchen to curate a history
of cameraless photography, using the Lye
photograms as his starting point.
Her work falls within a tradition
of «rayographs», or
photograms, established by artists such
as Man Ray, and Laszlo Moholy - Nagy, in the 1920's, artists whose work in photography was informed by their painting and sculptural practice.
They range from postwar experiments with darkroom processes (such
as photograms and photomontages), to 1970s feminist performances conceived for the camera, to political and documentary engagements with labor history and globalization in the 1980s and 1990s, to forms
of archival and historical reconstitution made since 2000.
Everywhere in the twenty - seven works
of photography, video, sound, sculpture, and installation were those trace markers that function simultaneously
as indicators
of presence and ciphers
of absence:
photograms («that subspecies
of photo,» according to Krauss, «which forces the issue
of photography's existence
as an index») showing hands
Landscape Portraits is a new series
of photograms in which Oppenheim uses very thin slices
of wood
as negatives applied directly to a photosensitive surface.
These forms appear
as abstracted bodies and inverted vertical horizons, echoed in the silhouettes
of the
photogram ridge lines.
MUSEUM
OF FINE ARTS It's easy to see Fuss's cameraless photograms and latter - day daguerreotypes as reactions to our digital era, in which photography's ring of truth has a hollow sound.
OF FINE ARTS It's easy to see Fuss's cameraless
photograms and latter - day daguerreotypes
as reactions to our digital era, in which photography's ring
of truth has a hollow sound.
of truth has a hollow sound...
BOSTON Adam Fuss MUSEUM
OF FINE ARTS It's easy to see Fuss's cameraless photograms and latter - day daguerreotypes as reactions to our digital era, in which photography's ring of truth has a.
OF FINE ARTS It's easy to see Fuss's cameraless
photograms and latter - day daguerreotypes
as reactions to our digital era, in which photography's ring
of truth has a.
of truth has a...
PART 2: LIGHT AND SHADOW The ESSAY «Light and Shadow» discusses... flicker films, Plato's allegory
of the cave, H.P. Robinson's allegorical images, working with the absence
of light, Tony Conrad's slow emulsions, photography
as fairy magic and sun drawings, Adam Fuss's
photograms, Hiroshi Sugimoto's feature - length exposures, Cai Guo - Qiang's explosions, light
as cancerous radiation, light and shadow in city planning, contrast and lighting in works by Rineke Dijkstra, Jacob Riis, Weegee, Adrienne Salinger, and others, O. Winston Link's environmental light, darkness and light
as metaphors for knowledge, morality, and power, pools
of light in Expressionism, film noir, and works by Hans Bellmer, Esther Bubley, and Anna Gaskell, Group f / 64, available light in the work
of Roy DeCarava, Yinka Shonibare's interpretation
of Dorian Gray, public projected images, Indonesian shadow play, Gregory Barsamian's kinetic sculptures, flickering portraits by Christian Boltanski, Kara Walker's silhouettes, and more...
Seeing the totality
of Welling's work, in a lucid installation by the architecture firm Johnston Marklee, clarifies connections such
as those between the New Abstractions, (1998 - 2000), large
photograms of deep black bars on white paper, recalling Franz Kline paintings, and the rigor
of his straightforward pictures
of modern architecture such
as Maison de Verre (2009).
The show revolves around the theme
of appropriation; with work that explores / deals with desire, race, sexuality, identity and gender, often via magazine formats and camera-less techniques (such
as photograms).
Artist Klea McKenna describes her Rain Studies
as «an ongoing series
of unique gelatin silver
photograms of rain made outdoors at night... I have always paid attention to rainfall and how weather affects the land, but by making this work my awareness has been heightened.
In a self - reflexive process, these
photograms can be seen
as a physical record
of her drawing with the (otherwise intangible) medium
of light.