The Los Angeles - based photographer «has produced a series of new images that interrogate and challenge the history and nature of
photographic portraiture from a queer, black perspective.
Examples include Julia Margaret Cameron's soft - focused and reverential Herbert Wilson (1868), which helped to move
photographic portraiture from pure documentation to artistic intention; and Edward Curtis's field - printed cyanotype of an American Indian (c.1900 - 1930), which also shows how early photographers checked the quality of their images before digital photography.
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 George Osodi.
Not exact matches
As White's first extended exploration of
portraiture, this body of work is a departure
from the narrative themes of his past
photographic series.
Dezfuli was awarded # 15,000 for the portrait, which was selected
from nearly 6,000 submissions entered for this year's edition of the National Portrait Gallery's annual prize for contemporary
photographic portraiture.
His
photographic work ranges
from soulful
portraiture and landscape to grotesque macro abstractions, exploring secrets...
Secondly, these pictures were chosen
from thirty - one rolls of film that were left in the bottoms of boxes in the artist's archives for decades; Facio eventually grew more interested in
portraiture and
photographic essays than in journalism and documentary.
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.
In his work, Young Women and Young Men of Canada, Jones combines
photographic portraiture with line drawings taken
from classical antiquity to question notions of beauty.
This talk will discuss how
photographic technology and changing aesthetics influenced the evolution of
photographic portraiture in the 20th Century — moving
from the formal studio portrait, to on - location and finally to the more casual snapshot.
In his work, Young Women and Young Men of Canada, Jones combines
photographic portraiture with line drawings taken
from classical antiquity to question notions -LSB-...]
This photograph is
from #lonelygirl, a series where Heji Shin continues her investigation into
photographic portraiture.
From Angie Kordic's review of the exhibition «Headshots: Contemporary
Photographic Portraiture» for Widewalls:
Photographic portraiture — of the self as much as subjects choreographed for the camera — is a central offering at the newly launched Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA), a one - hundred - gallery, nine - floor private museum that opened at a harborside address in Cape Town, South Africa's leisure capital, and focuses exclusively on twenty - first - century art
from Africa and its diaspora.
Her practice borrows
from simultaneous visual traditions, including
photographic and figurative
portraiture, social documentary aesthetics, and vernacular family - album photographs.
This exhibition celebrates Dorothea Lange's
photographic vision
from her early studio
portraiture and iconic «Migrant Mother» to the post-Pearl Harbour internment of Japanese - Americans and changing face of the social and physical American landscape after WWII.