Reminiscent of the American
photographic traditions of Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and Stephen Shore, Soth chronicles the people he happens upon in a search for the familiar in the unknown and everyday.
These works — each of which is being presented at MoMA for the first time — are grounded in
diverse photographic traditions, suggesting the creative fertility of the medium from 1960 to today.
In the end, all the artists featured in the exhibition accept full responsibility for every detail of their images, offering a powerful alternative to the
dominant photographic tradition of the compelling picture that is somehow found by chance.
The treatment and contextualization of that found matter, however, connects as much to a
conceptual photographic tradition that runs from Ed Ruscha to Christopher Williams (in her photographic work) as -LSB-...]
The artists included in the exhibition employ practices that simultaneously
subvert photographic traditions while also employing the medium's salient characteristics that revolve around the physics of light and light sensitive chemistries, some of which use this property to relate and respond to digital image making technologies.»
While hardly unified in style and content, the artists» works in «Altarations» blend photographic images and processes to produce works that celebrate, contradict and
undermine photographic traditions through altered images and references.
Presented at MoMA for the first time, these works by 19 artists are grounded in
diverse photographic traditions, suggesting the creative fertility of the medium from 1960 to today.
While the observation of horizons sits firmly in
the photographic tradition, from the romantic seascapes of Gustave Le Gray to the minimal abstractions of Hiroshi Sugimoto, Leong's series of photographs begun in 2001 (and now going on 16 years) create an un-paralleled, vast, and unique picture of the world.
While the impulse to make images of flowers and trees runs deep through
the photographic tradition, this exhibition...
While the impulse to make images of flowers and trees runs deep through
the photographic tradition, this exhibition of more than 20 works highlights a diverse range of perspectives on nature across more than 150 years.
Her most recent series of portraits and landscapes struck us as the perfect opportunity to do that — it's a bold bringing together of the two
photographic traditions she's been faithful to throughout her career.
The Los Angeles artist's «Designer» photographs of shop windows, taken with a cheap hand - held camera and then blown up to a just barely decipherable resolution, at once evoke 20th - century abstract painting and
the photographic tradition of shop windows as subject matter that goes back to Eugene Atget and Brassaï.
Gregory Crewdson works within
a photographic tradition that combines the documentary style of William Eggleston and Walker Evans with the dream - like vision of filmmakers such as Stephen Spielberg and David Lynch.
Adad Hannah works within
a photographic tradition that combines elements of very early photographic practices, film and video pioneers such as Andy Warhol and Nam June Paik, and the cinematographic approaches of photographers such as Jeff Wall and Cindy Sherman.
Bey has experimented with many innovative approaches and
photographic traditions and he uses his artwork as a platform to challenge stereotypical images of African Americans and other historically marginalized groups.
In his work
the photographic tradition is unobtrusively linked to contemporary post-conceptualism.
In an essay from 1994, he even placed the artist in
a photographic tradition that includes the likes of Walker Evans, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange and Henri Cartier - Bresson.
Akershus ArtCenter has invited MELK, as an artist - run gallery, into their established space in order to curate an exhibition with artists working within
a photographic tradition, thus bringing to this established arnea the vision of the independent artist - run space.
The first solo show of a Swiss photographer continuing in
the photographic tradition of abandoning expected perceptions of physical space.