Valentine and Bruce argued that our brains do not store
a photographic image of every face we see.
Not exact matches
The show «Mario Testino: In Your
Face» (until 26 July 2015) presents the full range
of his
photographic work, in 125
images, placing particular emphasis on its provocative contrasts.
The Gun as
Image, Museum
of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Face & Figure: Contemporary Art, Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance in Photography, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (catalogue), Traveled to The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA Scene
of the Crime, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA Selections from the Audrey & Sydney Irmas Collection
of Photographic Self Portraits: 1940 - 96, Los Angeles County Museum
of Art, Los Angeles, CA This End Up: Selections from the collection
of Robert J. Shiffler, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
There are endless variations on the theme
of the human
face in contemporary art — prominent examples include Thomas Schütte's supra - personal sculpted figures, Cindy Sherman's role - playing
photographic images, the portraits
of Marlene Dumas, Candice Breitz and Tony Oursler, Bruce Nauman's experiments with his own body, Rosemarie Trockel's family portraits, Julian Opie's schematic facial representations and Thomas Ruff's passport - style photographs.
Her
photographic practice flowered in the 1980s, becoming famous for its examination
of gender and race: her works juxtapose text fragments with
images of African - American men and women, their
faces often hidden from the lens.
After a few minutes
of exposure to the projected
image, the powder retains a faint green
image of the two
faces on its surface, something akin to the «latent
image»
of photographic film or the veil
of memory.
To accompany the group exhibition Double Agent in 2008, Phil Collins has made the
photographic print You'll Never Work In This Town Again (2009) for the ICA, featuring two
of the
images from his series you'll never work in this town again (2004 — on - going), which is a series
of photographic portraits
of curators, critics, dealers, collectors and other figures in the art world — photographed on the understanding that the
image would be taken immediately after the artist had slapped each sitter hard around the
face.
She created a
photographic essay
of the migration from this region at the height
of the Great Depression and in 1936 published these
images in a volume entitled, You Have Seen Their
Faces.
Jackson's
image is just one
of the many striking
photographic portraits included in Black Chronicles II at Spelman College Museum
of Fine Art in Atlanta, Georgia, that activate an important dialogue about the history and record
of Black
faces and bodies within Western culture.
In this final rule, the only absolute requirement is the removal
of full -
face photographs, and we depend on the «catch - all»
of «any other unique * * * characteristic * * *» to pick up the unusual case where another type
of photographic image might be used to identify an individual.