It is an anthology of
photographic images made by women during an era when their own lives were undergoing dramatic changes.
Photographic images made at night were new, bold, mysterious and brave, the ability to photograph at night being a recent technical capability that had yet to be mastered or even considered by the majority of photographers working in the 20s and 30s.
The first mid-career survey dedicated to Deschenes's work, this exhibition will feature 20 years of her art, including explorations of various photographic technologies, rich and nuanced work with photograms (a type of
photographic image made without a camera), and sculptural installations that reflect the movements and light within a given space and respond to a site's unique features.
In this video, 2012 Whitney Biennial artist Liz Deschenes discusses her work with photograms, a type of
photographic image made without a camera.
A journey across geographic place, art historical precedents, and the very history of
photographic image making find a dynamic relationship in The River of No Return, a series created by Laura McPhee over a multiyear residency in the Sawtooth Valley in central Idaho, supported by the Alturas Foundation.
Utilizing, pushing, and undoing conventional processes behind
photographic image making, Weber reconsiders the fundamental aspects of the medium, namely paper, light, and chemicals.
For them, alternative photography represents exposure to the entire spectrum of
photographic image making, including daguerreotype, tintype, calotype, and dry plate processes.
Wolfgang Tillmans is one of the most significant artists of his generation, testing the possibilities of
photographic image making and exhibition display.
Throughout his career, Marco Breuer has consistently challenged conventional idea of
photographic image making.
Not exact matches
In any case, even when allowances are
made for heightening and expansion inherent in the nature of the tradition, even admitting that a purely «
photographic»
image is ultimately irrecoverable, Samuel and Moses are in a unique class as performers on behalf of Yahweh.
By producing a
photographic negative on glass rather than on paper, the resulting
images were much sharper and could be
made much larger, hence the great interest for astronomers.
With stunning
images of men and women who caught Scott's eye in traditional fashion locales like New York, London, and Milan, as well as newer ones including Peru, India, Dubai, and South Africa, The Sartorialist: X celebrates the many cultures of pattern and color found across the world,
making it a thrilling source of
photographic inspiration.
How a
photographic image is cropped can
make a huge difference in the visual impact, the same way that filmmakers will film from a distance or use closeups to bring the viewer closer to the actors and actresses.
But
make sure to start your weekend with some amazing
photographic images at Wall Space.
Kota Ezawa in particular has engaged with iconic
photographic images and film and TV footage to
make his particular brand of reduced cartoon - like animations and lightboxes.
As Collier points out, the taking and
making of
photographic images requires constant manipulation.
In this discussion of his work Miller places his project within the context of a larger, planned documentation of this tumultuous event by New Zealand's
photographic community, and the various uses
made of these
images in the immediate aftermath of the Tour.
As part of an ongoing series of works on paper collectively entitled Perceptual Ecology, Mat Chivers has been
making drawings that result from the mirroring and combination of self -
made and found
photographic images, film and CAD renderings.
The exhibition included both freestanding sculptures and wall works combining text and
image; exhibited as well were examples of «interactive sculptures» (some produced in collaboration with Esther Shalev - Gerz), pieces either re-created, presented in the form of
photographic documentation, or
made accessible by computer.
In the early 1960s, Pistoletto began
making his famous series of Quadri specchianti (Mirror Paintings): sheets of polished inox steel, like mirrors, onto which he applied
images he obtained through a
photographic reproduction technique.
This
photographic subject matter reflects on another kind of speed or immediacy in
image making, and one that deeply impacted the field of painting.
The background, selected for its resemblance to a generic abstract or experimental photogram, perhaps from the 1920s, is an
image made by chance, a piece of light - sensitive commercial
photographic paper marked by random accidents of storage — and here digitally scanned.
The paintings
made in this period were created with the use of
photographic images, something that had previously been inconceivable to him and to academic painting, and it marked the pivotal breakthrough.
Working in parallel to Western pictorial traditions of landscape, Clare uses precise combination artist -
made and collected sculptural objects,
photographic images, event and documentation as vehicles to re-access, re-experience, re-stage, identify, imagine.
The exhibition and this accompanying catalogue are divided into three parts: seven large paintings from the Wall of Light series; a set of 40 watercolors; and three
photographic series, which intriguingly illuminate Scully's
image -
making process — Aran, Santo Domingo for Nene and Alhambra, the latter of which is published here for the first time.
His
photographic works are
made without the use of a camera, instead producing
images, both figurative and abstract, with handmade «negatives.»
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.
Stephen Shore, Fundacion Mapfre, Madrid Well known for his neutral, objective and almost indifferent
images, Stephen Shore broke the mould when he
made his
photographic debut in the 1960s.
While the impulse to
make images of flowers and trees runs deep through the
photographic tradition, this exhibition...
Several of the featured artists
make work that is considered
photographic but is camera-less, while, for others, photography has laid the groundwork for the moving
image or functions as a jumping - off point for sculptural investigations.
The Guests, a series of ethereal
photographic images created in the 1990s, portray fairy - like alien beings
made of glowing cosmic dust.
Hill has been experimenting with fine art digital
image -
making for ten years, pursuing ways to use
photographic and digital technology as part of an intuitive creative process.
Much has been
made, in recent criticism, of the significance of placing
photographic images on sculptural objects.
But for those who
make the effort to see the work itself the artist has a neat surprise: the handcuffs are real aluminium, protruding from the flat
image in a way that slyly escapes
photographic reproduction of the art work.
It's a print
made with one obsolete
photographic process on which the
image is of the material of the now also - obsolete
photographic process that replaced it.
In two recent series, one of rounded - squares that look somewhat like television or computers screens and the other of black concentric circles that resemble targets, he turns painting into an industrial project in the manner of photography by
making multiple painted copies of a single one - off
photographic image.
The Pop Life exhibition also includes works from Jeff Koons's series
Made in Heaven, large - scale
photographic images that depict the artist and the porn model La Cicciolina having sexual intercourse.
The range of the
images made it not only a crowd - pleaser but also an invigorating
photographic exploration of the meaning of community across cultural boundaries and geographic lines.
Bustamante continues to exhibit both objects and
images, and says of this portfolio of sculptural work, which seems at first to
make his biggest break yet with photography, «All of the works here have something to do with
photographics.»
Her work spans
photographic and video - based
image -
making; performance and social engagement / disruption; curation and installation; and theoretical writings infused with autobiography, subjectivity, and spirituality.
[49] The Tropical Fish series (1974 — 75) represents the first instance where the
photographic image has been directly used in his graphic work, where Ruscha had Gemini G.E.L.'s house photographer Malcolm Lubliner
make photographs of a range of common domestic objects.
The show opens with striking
photographic images that document early performances in which Mendieta enacted dramatic bodily transformations — applying thick
make - up, donning wigs, covering her face with a torn stocking — whose similarity to later works by Cindy Sherman has been noted by more than one critic.
Wallace Berman will be represented by a series of previously unseen single -
image Verifax collages, a body of rarely exhibited mailers from the collection of Teri Garr, inserts from his limited edition, hand -
made artists magazine, Semina, selections from his recently discovered body of
photographic portraiture, and several unique works incorporating
images which were considered «pornography» at the time.
Photographing modern cityscapes and man
made spaces through bird's - and worm's - eye perspectives and utilizing composite construction, his
images destabilize the notion of
photographic reality.
In his exhibition, Scozzaro employs a
photographic fiction -
making process as obliquely autobiographical, fabricating, inventing, and constructing
images that straddle both criticism and confession.
In both series, he overlaid
photographic document with the
making - visible of imaginative or formal associations, and collapsed different moments of time into a single
image.
He employs
photographic techniques without relying on the use of a camera, aperture, or film, utilizing a combination of photogrammic, abrasive, and incisive ways of mark
making to create
images.
Her films have a pictorial feel, while her
photographic works are reminiscent of sculptures: scratched lines
make up her projected
images, and pieces of film strips appear on her photograms and collages -LSB-...].
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.
Through a large number of photos acquired through a serial
photographic process the choice of
images and their alignment
make up a crucial point.