His work has always engaged with portraiture, landscape and still life, but more recently Tillmans has turned to a deeper exploration of abstraction, and has pushed the boundaries and definitions
of the photographic form.
Through countless exhibitions and publications, he has tirelessly experimented with the boundaries
of photographic form, painting, writing, scratching or collaging...
Tillmans» abstractions, that have pushed the boundaries and definitions
of the photographic form, are placed alongside his once again sharp focus on the figurative.
Other works such as the series Blushes 2000 - ongoing, made without a camera by manipulating the effects of light directly on photographic paper, show how the artist's work with abstraction continues to push the boundaries and definitions
of the photographic form.
Not exact matches
The focal point
of the space, aside from the captivating
photographic art adorning the walls, is a colorful 1,500 - gallon custom saltwater aquarium that flows across the ceiling in enchanting
form.
Very often they came attached with an investigation, typically in the
form of a twitpic or other
photographic «evidence».»
If
photographic memory is a myth, might there be some other
form of innately superior memory?
This wide - field view
of the sky around the bright star Alpha Centauri was created from
photographic images
forming part
of the Digitized Sky Survey 2.
To do this we investigate: • what is good composition in an image • the techniques used to achieve effective composition • visual weight •
forms of balance: symmetric, asymmetrical, radial and mosaic •
forms of symmetry: reflective, rotational, and translational •
photographic balance: color, tonal and conceptual balance • the rule
of thirds • improving balance using cropping in Photoshop.
During a couple
of recent displaced aggression animal communicator cases I had three unusual, external scientific confirmations in the
form of photographic evidence by the pet parents Read more Photographic Proof (Scientific Confirmations) for our Animal C
photographic evidence by the pet parents Read more
Photographic Proof (Scientific Confirmations) for our Animal C
Photographic Proof (Scientific Confirmations) for our Animal Communication
Digital radiography is a
form of x-ray imaging, where digital x-ray sensors are used instead
of traditional
photographic film.
The body and identity is at the very heart
of the artist's work; Kessling presents
photographic and video works placing herself in a
form of subverted self - portrait.
Using iconic imagery
of modern protest with an advanced
photographic method, these works become fully perceivable in
form and content while illuminated.
In this series
of photographic works landscape is explored as an agent that not only acts as a central character but also
forms the characters that populate it.
Rachel Harrison's
photographic series Voyage
of the Beagle, 2007, surveys human and animal
forms across sculptural manifestations ranging from taxidermy to mannequins, signs, and public art.
This exhibition features photographs by Mickalene Thomas
of the staged scenes and
photographic portraits that
form the basis
of her practice and inspire her mixed media paintings.
Revisiting manifestations
of the black square and tracing its evolution over time to a more layered and frayed entity are a new suite
of paintings by Ellen Gallagher riffing off
of Kazimir Malevich's Black Square on a White Ground (1915), mixed media works by Turiya Magadlela, a bound fabric wall sculpture by Laura Lima, and Jonathas de Andrade's
photographic iterations
of the black square, which use plastic tarp to reference the movement
of land occupation and the square
form as a historic reference to capitalism.
Taking the
form of drawings,
photographic series and video installations, his work consistently invokes the use
of systems as generative part
of the artist's practice, investigating the relationships between aesthetic experience, political beliefs and the formation
of meaning.
The HMI exhibition itself includes two sculptures out
of the original 14, William Turnbull's Angle and Nicholas Monro's King Kong, as well as other works made in or around 1972 by some
of the other sculptors, alongside maquettes and models, some original and some specially remade, and
photographic and other
forms of documentation.
Klein's technique bears striking similarity to the
photographic technique
of a heliograph, but Klein used flame, rather than light, to create shapes and
forms.
The whiteness, like the grid
of Roth's monitors or
of the
photographic series, in turn takes me to more meditative
forms.
Her working method is interdisciplinary and recent projects take the
form of performance,
photographic installations, printmaking, text, video, curating, and collaborating.
Catherine Opie's, «Divinity Fudge» hangs next to «Vaginal Davis» which both
form part
of the «Portrait»
photographic series,
formed from 1993 to 1997 while she was exploring the representation
of the figure in gender politics and the sado - masochistic leather subculture in California.
Current work - in - progress takes the
form of photographic prints on fabric and garments.
Strategies that emerged earlier in the circles
of the surrealists and New Vision photographers — the untutored «
photographic mistake,» photography as a
form of literary pointing — adopted by the artists in this exhibition have subsequently been absorbed by the contemporary generation using photography as conceptual art, from Gabriel Orozco to Hank Willis Thomas.
In response to this partial view that overlooks the complexities
of daily life across a vast continent
of over fifty nations, Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography forces a recognition
of the contradictory and varied
forms of photographic practice that are now arising across Africa.
Form of Light is an investigation into the very essence and mysteries
of the
photographic process.
The exhibition included both freestanding sculptures and wall works combining text and image; exhibited as well were examples
of «interactive sculptures» (some produced in collaboration with Esther Shalev - Gerz), pieces either re-created, presented in the
form of photographic documentation, or made accessible by computer.
Through my lens I document a
photographic essay or visual «N (art) rative» that captures the happenings, personalities, collectors, gallerists, artists and the art itself; all elements that
form the richly varied and textured fabric
of the SoCal art world.
Although he was influenced by such photographers as Eugène Atget and André Kertész (1894 — 1985), his
photographic fusion
of form and content was groundbreaking.
With their obsessive nature and encyclopedic magnitude, Darboven's visualizations
of time and recent history, as well as the collection, selection, and rearrangement
of knowledge in
form of handwritten excerpts,
photographic, literary, and journalistic documents
of cultural history, bear witness to the artist's attempt to counter the information flood and the alleged chaos
of the (post --RRB- modern world by creating an autonomous classification system and by placing herself in an individual framework
of meaning.
Her experiments result in a range
of photographic tonalities, abstract
forms, and shapes that sometimes suggest minimal landscapes.
His recent works take the
form of large
photographic grids, often including text, archive materials and moving image as multiple, composite
forms of examining temporary settlements, sites
of corporate development and exclusion, border territories, and geographies
of extraction.
First, I feel that when some
photographic detail, such as a hand or an eye, is taken out
of its original context and is fractured and integrated into a different space and
form configuration, it acquires a plastic quality it did not have in the original....
On the one hand, we see the
form of the
photographic landscape, but it seems to be wrong, due to this addition
of paint.
We're not sure what exactly to call Lena Henke's printed - on boxes
of transparent plastic — in the traditional
of Donald Judd's «specific objects,» they hang on the wall but are clearly sculptural, and they use
photographic images, but in abstracted
forms.
Yet it also recalls the emphasis on line,
form, light, and darkness in the black - and - white
photographic abstractions
of Aaron Siskind (1903 — 1991) and Harry Callahan (1912 — 1999), who Rauschenberg would come to know — and, in Siskind's case, befriend — when they taught at Black Mountain during summer 1951.
Here it comes in the
form of a pale, 1960s Wallace Berman image
of the moon's remote surface overlaid with cryptic writing; a black - and - white Vija Celmins screen - print
of the vast, horizonless ocean that appears to carry a faint «X,» as if the printing plate had been canceled; a ragged piece
of fiberglass painted with a Tiepelo - like sky by Joe Goode, who seems to have ripped it from either the actual heavens above or a movie - studio set; and a
photographic close - up
of shifting desert sand, over which actual sand and colored pigment has been applied by David Benjamin Sherry, as if reality were a veil obscuring camera - created truth in our mediated universe.
The resulting series
of 500 images
of white monochromes have been presented in a number
of different
forms since he began making them in the 1990's, appearing as
photographic prints, 35 mm slide projections, digital projections and also in book
form.
This booth has the rarest
of treats in the
form of modern
photographic masterpieces.
Juried into the Torpedo Factory in 2012, E.E. McCollum has achieved renown for his
photographic studies
of light, shadow, motion, and especially the human
form.
During the final «gathering phase»
of his practice, he builds a collection
of found objects or creates a
photographic series that documents a recurring
form.
However, this group show at Foley Gallery seeks to uplift both analog and digital
forms of photographic art.
In 1982, the photographer Carrie Mae Weems credited the efforts
of Draper and Kamoinge as «the first steps taken by black photographers to come together and
form a comprehensive group that would address in
photographic terms the description
of being black in America.»
His works take a variety
of forms, from
photographic reproductions (Giovane che guarda Lorenzo Lotto, 1967) to casts
of classical sculptures (Mimesi, 1975).
In his «paper drop» works, he creates extraordinary sculptural
forms in
photographic paper, then by photographing them returns them to the accustomed flatness
of that same medium.
The
photographic sheets this produce a strong meditative power, as was characteristic for example, for Rothko room installation picturesque Swatches; Howalts photographs confirm that even today Finsens thesis
of the therapeutic effect
of light in aesthetic
form.
Blossfeldt (1865 - 1932) is recognised for his extensive and unique collection
of photographic plant portraits that reveal the tactile qualities, intricate
forms and uncanny aspects
of flora that could also be said to contain elements
of Pareidolia.
Mercedes is interested in manipulating traditional
forms of photography and investigating the role
of photographic copyright in historical national memory.
Lucy Raven is similarly involved with concepts
of exchange and globalization in her physical and
photographic tracing
of copper wire manufacture routes from the mines
of Nevada all the way to smelters in China in a work whose final presentation is
formed from a sped - up animation
of 7,000 still photographs that investigate what it is to be «wired.»