The Pritzker Center for Photography highlights 180 years of
photographic history drawn from the museum's collection of 17,800 works dating from 1839.
Not exact matches
Alan has studied art
history,
drawing, sculpture, ceramics and photography at Princeton, Westchester Art Workshop, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Maine Media Workshops, Griffin Museum and the
Photographic Resource Center at Boston University.
Meanwhile, Grant Hegedus provides witty
photographic food puns, and Felicity McCabe
draws influence from colourful specimens in the Natural
History Museum.
Other highlights include Edgar Arceneaux's nine - channel video installation «The Alchemy of Comedy... Stupid» (2006), featuring a performance by comedian David Alan Grier; Tammy Rae Carland's «I'm Dying Up Here» (2011), a series of large - scale color photographs of female stand - up comedians captured mid-act, emphasizing the vulnerability of performance; Stanya Kahn's absurdist, pathos - filled video «Lookin Good, Feelin» Good» (2012), shown alongside a selection of her humorous line
drawings; and an installation of Sara Greenberger Rafferty's visceral
photographic works, for which she manipulates images from the
history of late 20th century comedy.
Using the Ross Gallery as a
photographic studio for several weeks, Ewing experimented with a range of lighting, framing and staging techniques that
drew upon his research on the
history of model photography.
Drawing from diverse
photographic genres such as landscape, forensic, Victorian memento mori, occult, and camera-less photography, she investigates the ways in which the material conditions and specialized languages of the
photographic medium shape our relations to
history, power, and the production of images.
Accordingly, Wood increasingly
draws not only from his growing collection of
photographic images and «readymade» portraits such as trading cards, but also the
history of his own practice.
As well as its superb collection of paintings, sculpture and
drawings, The Courtauld has two
photographic libraries - the Lord Martin Conway library, embracing architectural
drawings, sculpture and illuminated manuscripts; and the Robert Witt library, covering paintings,
drawings and engravings, with over 2 million reproductions of works by more than 70,000 artists - and a Book Library, which contains one of the UK's largest archives of works on the
history of art.