The exhibition of
photographic portraiture by Arnold Newman highlighting the innovative minds and personalities that gave rise to the ideas and concepts that shaped the 20th century
Not exact matches
Deeply rooted in the history of
photographic portraiture å la Irving Penn, and early ethnographic studies commissioned
by the British Empire, «Marginal Trades» documents the rapidly vanishing street trades, businesses, and professions of India.
THE EXPANDED SUBJECT: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN
PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITURE FROM AFRICA Africa's contribution to 20th - century portraiture is expanded upon in this selection of the contemporary work by Sammy Baloji, Mohamed Camara, Saïdou Dicko and Ge
PORTRAITURE FROM AFRICA Africa's contribution to 20th - century
portraiture is expanded upon in this selection of the contemporary work by Sammy Baloji, Mohamed Camara, Saïdou Dicko and Ge
portraiture is expanded upon in this selection of the contemporary work
by Sammy Baloji, Mohamed Camara, Saïdou Dicko and George Osodi.
The last show
by Hart featured stark
portraiture in the
photographic style of Richard Avedon if the great photographer somehow took to painting like George Seurat.
Arnold Newman is responsible for creating a new vocabulary for
photographic portraiture, as explained
by Gregory Heisler, Professor of Photography, Syracuse University in the introduction to the upcoming book Arnold Newman: One Hundred.
An essay on
photographic portraiture practice is forthcoming in the catalog for Becoming Disfarmer, to be published
by The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in 2014.
They approach the street not as detached observers but as engaged participants
by turning to
portraiture, urbanscapes, serial photography, or unconventional manipulations of the
photographic image.
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.
Montoya's Casta
Portraiture employs
photographic constructions including a family portrait accompanied
by genetic information that establishes links with other ethnicities and cultures.
Her distinct approach to
photographic self -
portraiture has been influenced
by her experiences working in and exploring remote Canadian landscapes, as well as
by contemplations over the complexities of her family heritage.
Organized
by Wadsworth Atheneum Director and CEO Susan Talbott, this selection of nearly 50 works examined social history, identity and race, as well as nostalgia for the traditional portraits that once defined photography, and outlines the transformation of
photographic portraiture throughout modernist movements such as Dadaism and Surrealism.
Barbara Kruger's adoption of advertising techniques emphasized the coercive authority of language while work
by Renée Cox and Catherine Opie, among many others, brought renewed attention to the politics of the body — be it the black male body in the case of Cox's
photographic collage, or the gay, lesbian and transgendered subjects of Opie's reverent
photographic portraiture.
Aspects of
Portraiture addresses various approaches to photographic portraiture taken by artists such as Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Patti Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems, and celebrates the patrons whose gifts are on view, with special homage to our late friend Robin
Portraiture addresses various approaches to
photographic portraiture taken by artists such as Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Patti Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems, and celebrates the patrons whose gifts are on view, with special homage to our late friend Robin
portraiture taken
by artists such as Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Patti Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems, and celebrates the patrons whose gifts are on view, with special homage to our late friend Robinson Grover.
Sarah Charlesworth's recontextualized newspapers, a comparison of The Family of Man
by Edward Steichen and Steve McQueen, typologies
by the Bechers, Karl Blossfeldt, Dan Graham, and others, the
photographic archive as a tool of social control, series - based
portraiture by artists August Sander, VALIE EXPORT, Claude Cahun, Bea Nettles, Annette Messager, and Sophie Calle, the passage of space and time in works
by Ed Ruscha, Duane Michals, Minor White, William Christenberry, and Atta Kim,
photographic documention of artistic process, observation and experimentation, the photobook as a traveling idea, the slide show as performed sequence, Eadweard Muybridge and the illusion of motion, sequential narrative in works
by Jan Groover, Eleanor Antin, and Chris Marker, compressing time in video works
by Andy Warhol and Paul Pfeiffer, and more...
The photographs of draped fabrics recall the lush backdrops in renaissance
portraiture (such as Venus and Cupid
by Hans Holbein), and adopted
by photographic portraitists such as queer icon Catherine Opie.
Intended as a major genealogy of the rise of a still - powerful and evolving
photographic practice
by artists, the checklist will include a wide array of works examining a range of issues: performativity and
photographic practice;
portraiture and cultural identity; the formal and social architectonics of the built environment; societal and individual interventions in the landscape; photography's relationship to sculpture and painting; the visual mediation of meaning in popular culture; and the poetic and conceptual investigation of visual non-sequiturs, disjunctions and humorous absurdities.