Sentences with phrase «on daguerreotypes»

In his recent work, Close has managed to reinvent a pictorial language famously based on photography by breaking down the narrowness of photographic restrictions (this is most evident in his tapestries — two self - portraits and seven of friends, including Ellen Gallagher, Philip Glass, Lyle Ashton Harris, Brad Pitt, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, and Lorna Simpson — that are based on daguerreotypes or Polaroids and woven by the legendary Jacquard loom in Belgium.)

The only two - dimensional work in the exhibition is Close's Self - Portrait / Five Part (illustrated top), a tapestry based on daguerreotypes of the artist's head at various angles joined together to form a panoramic view.

The outcome is to achieve a modern twist on the Daguerreotype image.

Hank Willis Thomas on a Daguerreotype Button New York - based Hank Willis Thomas calls himself a photo - conceptual artist.

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Five minutes on the velvet buff, he says, then five minutes on the buckskin buff, repeat for half an hour, then another five minutes with iodine and bromine «sensitizing» boxes before three daguerreotype plates are camera - ready.

Vega was the first star to be photographed, exposed for 100 seconds with the daguerreotype process through a 15 - inch refractor at Harvard Observatory on the night of July 16 - 17, 1850.

A bare mattress alone, in another silvery daguerreotype, is that much more weighty and yet evanescent — not to mention unburdened of associations with Mercury, Tiresias, the Caduceus, vaginas, Victorian childhoods, and the British variant on the game of Chutes and Ladders.

Examples include Thomas Lawrence's iconic 1815 portrait — the basis of the design of the British five pound note from 1971 to 1991 — and a daguerreotype portrait taken on Wellesley's 75th birthday, loaned from the current Duke of Wellington's own collection (until 7 June).

He took up photography in 1843 using the daguerreotype, and later in the mid 1850s, became one of the first French photographers to use the calotype, a technique on paper developed in England by Fox Talbot, and introducing the principle of positive and negative.

We will present a wonderful mix of works, from rare early daguerreotypes through to contemporary takes on these early techniques.

The first exhibition to focus exclusively on photographs made in the eastern half of the United States during the 19th century, East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth - Century American Landscape Photography showcases some 175 works — from daguerreotypes and stereographs to albumen prints and cyanotypes — as well as several photographers whose efforts have often gone unheralded.

The special $ 10 million gift allowed the curators to build on the collection's existing strengths — primarily its broad holding of American daguerreotypes and paper photographs — and to enhance its representation of 19th - and 20th - century European and contemporary international works.

Throughout his career, Chuck Close has expanded his contribution to portraiture through the mastery of such varied drawing and painting techniques as ink, graphite, pastel, watercolor, conté crayon, finger painting, and stamp - pad ink on paper; printmaking techniques, such as Mezzotint, etching, woodcuts, linocuts, and silkscreens; as well as handmade paper collage, Polaroid photographs, Daguerreotypes, and Jacquard tapestries.

A series of daguerreotypes, made using the 19th century technique will also be on view.

Pace's exhibition will feature Polaroids, daguerreotypes and an acrylic on canvas painting.

Using his unique method for creating chlorophyll print photograms on tree leaves, Dahn then reproduces them in daguerreotype form to memorialize the faces of the Cambodian genocide.

Daguerreotypes such as Kate Moss, 2003 show the same extreme level of detail on a small scale as Close's 20 x 40 Polaroids of the late1970s.

Chuck Close Photographs, on view from March 20 through October 2, 2016 features 86 images from 1964 to the present and illustrates the full range of the artist's exploration of photography — from early black and white maquettes, to monumental composite Polaroids, to intimately scaled daguerreotypes and recent Polaroid nudes.

MOLAA explained the importance of photography to Frieda Kahlo this way: «Frida collected daguerreotypes and calling cards from the XIX century and kept photographs that she intervened upon — cutting things out from them, writing dedications on them and personalizing them as if they were paintings.»

Two gallery shows, a museum exhibit and a conference are shining a spotlight on preindustrial image - making methods such as daguerreotypes, tintypes, calotypes, salted - paper prints and more — experimental processes that were often difficult to manage and unpredictable in their results.

The objects on view include rare daguerreotypes and vintage photographs, such as Roger Fenton's iconic The Valley of the Shadow of Death (1855) from the Crimean War and an early print of Joe Rosenthal's Old Glory Goes Up on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima.

An exhibition of contemporary photographs using 19th - century photographic techniques and processes — daguerreotypes, photogenic drawings, calotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and camera obscuras — is currently on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York.

The Wichita Art Museum presents A Couple of Ways of Doing Something an exhibition, on view January 29 through April 15, 2012 will featuring arresting daguerreotype portraiture as well as tapestries and photogravures created by Chuck Close.

Other notable lots included: a daguerreotype of a Shakespearean actor, ca. 1848, which sold for $ 3,712, compared with an estimate of $ 2,000 / 3,000; Peter Henry Emerson's platinum print titled Ricking the Reed, 1886, which sold for $ 3,125, compared with an estimate of $ 3,000 / 5,000; and Alfred Cheney Johnston's portrait of actress Fanny Brice, 1918, which sold on its low estimate for $ 2,500 (estimate: $ 2,500 / 3,500).

The exhibition featured Polaroids, daguerreotypes and an acrylic on canvas painting.