Uniting these works is a profound and career - long interest in what the artist calls
the photographic apparatus.
Works incorporating film and slide projection elements point to the continuing fascination for new technologies of representation and
the photographic apparatus by 20th century artists.
In addition, it features the Bingham Technology Collection of 10,000 cameras, viewing devices, and
photographic apparatus.
The exhibition brings together a group of work that Baldi feels employ a sensitivity to the camera as a tool and a sensual use of
the photographic apparatus.
For their second new series, Broomberg & Chanarin have photographed military grade prisms, shards of optical glass that are used in the sights of precision weaponry, but which also relate to the lenses found in the same
photographic apparatus they use.
What relationship do you establish with
the photographic apparatus?
A pinhole camera is a primitive, often homemade
photographic apparatus composed of a darkened chamber, in which light sensitive film or photographic paper is inserted and then exposed via a tiny «pinhole» puncture in the wall of the compartment.
-- a tanning bed, turning that tacky sunning device into a fabulously
photographic apparatus.
In my artistic practice, the relationship with
the photographic apparatus is complicated and ambiguous.
Lutter uses the most primitive of
photographic apparatuses — a camera obscura — to create monumental photographs.
Not exact matches
Further, the cinematic
apparatus of the running film strip representing reality, which Deschenes allegorically alludes to, is reversed to reveal through the
photographic objects» mirroring material a fuzzy image of the passerby in staccato motion, while the photograms themselves, if you will, remain installed and fixed in place.
Staging papers and objects as dividers of light and shadow, Lichtenstein uses the
apparatus of the camera and elemental forms of photography to explore the larger philosophical and theoretic issues around
photographic representation.
Typically, the
apparatus of story - telling and of cinematic and
photographic processes becomes an implicated participant with no detached point of observation.