Ed Ruscha's 16
photographic books made in the 60s and 70s distil popular culture — such as Hollywood logos and gas stations — into a cinematic language that is at once familiar and achingly profound.
Not exact matches
MADE IN THE USA Wine Across America: A
Photographic Road Trip, by husband - and - wife team Charles O'Rear and Daphne Larkin, took two years and 80,000 miles to create; but as a coffee - table
book, it
makes a pretty travel brochure.
The first
book to examine the practice of Sara Rahbar, including her early installations for the Queens Museum of Art, a
photographic series
made in Tehran, and the politically inspired textile - based works, all which use historically charged materials and forms.Essay by Catherine Grenier, adjunct director of Centre Pompidou, and interview with Elaine W. Ng.
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 spring she is releasing her first poetry
book and has a solo show entitled Weave at grayDUCK Gallery, which includes a group of natural pigment paintings
made from wildflowers and a group of large - scale
photographic collages.
The former's
book Monsanto: A
Photographic Investigation is a powerful indictment of corporate power and ecological irresponsibility, while Thompson's 35 mm film, called Autoportrait, was
made in collaboration with Diamond Reynolds, who broadcast on social media the moments following her partner Philando Castile's fatal shooting by a police officer in Minnesota.
Artist Olivia Locher, who scoured the statute
books of all 50 states in America, discovering these peculiar eccentricities and many others, doesn't have the answers to these questions, but has created a series of striking
photographic images lampooning some of the hundreds of decisions, big and small,
made every year by local and state lawmakers.
It contains all original works that were
made in editions, such as prints,
photographic editions, artist's
books, artist's posters, multiples and editions of paintings, which were produced before 2013.
They
make use of newspapers,
books, magazines and turn - of - the - century
photographic archives as source material.
The issue toggles between past and present, and between science and art, and features Jennifer Tucker on Victorian science photography, spectacle and rational amusement; Kelley Wilder on what it means for photography to
make visible the invisible; Brian Dillon on the cosmic and the mundane; a conversation between artist Trevor Paglen and the eminent science historian Peter Galison; a selection from Harold «Doc» Edgerton's lab
books; David Campany on
photographic abstraction and perception; curator Joel Smith's guide to «
photographic nothing»; and portfolios by British photographer Stephen Gill, Amsterdam - based artist Eva - Fiore Kovakovsky, curator Lynne Cooke on Horst Ademeit's mysterious annotated Polaroids and much more.
If you would like to
make a donation of
photographic books to VCP's lending library, please contact our gallery director at
[email protected] or 802-251-6051.
The most extensive collection of Wegman's
photographic work yet to be published, the
book includes over 300 images
made over the last four decades, many published here for the first time.
For me, the order is to
make a
photographic series first and then think about whether to
make it into a
book.
When working with the single image, rather than focusing on classic
photographic series, Schoerner
makes use of the
book - medium to put the work in a narrative context.
Open for browsing during gallery hours, our Bookshop stocks a range of thought provoking
photographic, arts and social sciences titles, while our Reading Room provides welcoming space for study and research, with access to an extensive collection of
books and reference materials, and a selection of almost 2,000 images from our archive has been digitised and
made available for browsing on an iMac.
Their porous practices — grounded in
photographic artist's
books, sculpture, photomontage, performance, and science — creatively reassess the themes and processes of
making pictures today.
Bochner's contemporary Bruce Nauman (American, born 1941) created a small but influential body of
photographic work in the same years, including the
book L.A. Air, while a third member of their generation, Gordon Matta - Clark (American, 1943 - 1978)
made his gallery debut in 1969 by frying Polaroid photographs in cooking oil as «souvenirs.»