Through the structure and technology of a CD - ROM,
the original photographic material is manipulated.
Not exact matches
With Fersini's equal focus on the
photographic image and its lustrous surface, the eye flits between recognizing the
original photograph's perceptual depth — what it depicts — and the image as a physical /
material object.
Muniz's elaborate
material creations - in this case the magazine collages - are ephemeral; it is his masterly
photographic documentation that is the final work of art, which is intentionally many steps removed from the
original image that inspired it...
The exhibition contains
original evidence, archival
material,
photographic documentation, film footage, forensic instruments and specimens, and is rich with artworks offering both unsettling and intimate responses to traumatic events.
Baldessari is best known for works that blend
photographic materials (such as film stills), take them out of their
original context and rearrange their form, often including the addition of words or sentences.
Some artists consider photography and video as unreliable and unstable media: Josh Brown's images of racecars point to the imperfect nature of both the
photographic medium and the spectator's vision, and Justin Phillipson employs video compression to distort his source
material to varying degrees, thereby disengaging the images from their
original source.