Both exhibitions celebrate the extraordinary richness of Hungary's modern
photographic tradition with diverse subject...
Not exact matches
Additional highlights include Helen Frankenthaler's Belfry and February Turn (both 1979), which mimic the look and feel of Abstract Expressionism yet in truth represent a rupture
with that
tradition through the use of a staining technique that seemingly minimizes the artist's role in the process; Frank Stella's Double Scramble (1978), whose nested squares, color contrasts, and pulsing optical effects bridge the artist's early minimalism and later illusionism; and Robert Rauschenberg's Golden Chalice (1989) which, insofar as it marries abstraction and representation and juxtaposes gestural brushwork and
photographic media, affords a crucial link to late 20th - century abstraction.
But could I undercut the traditional concept of a
photographic series
with the Grain image, and successfully connect it to the Hurricanes, which celebrated some of photography's most established
traditions?
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.
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.
Captioned first as «framer,» «Fedex courier» or «darkroom assistant» and then identified
with the location and date of the shoot, together his models form a nonhierarchical, kaleidoscopic yet very detailed «facebook» of the art world, following in part the
tradition of great American anthropological
photographic surveys.
Named after an image by Callis, the exhibition opens
with her haunting work and moves through the photography of others who derived inspiration from the
tradition of West Coast
photographic experimentation, including Ed Ruscha, Lewis Baltz, Andy Warhol, Wolfgang Tillmans, Eileen Quinlan, Amy Adler, and Catherine Opie (who's the subject of a concurrent exhibition at the museum).
The two series are among his earliest projects, which broke
with mainstream
photographic traditions to reveal pronounced modernist references.
In her signature painted and
photographic portraits of family, friends, lovers, and pop - culture icons, Thomas draws on and deconstructs 19th - and 20th - century
traditions of portraiture, replacing the ubiquitous white female nude
with voluptuous African American women.
She draws inspiration from Greek mythology and Pictorialist
photographic tradition, creating work
with a distinctively allegorical, surreal quality.
As a student of architectural history, I took the Bechers artistically for granted on happening to walk into their first museum show, Industrial Building 1830 — 1930: A
Photographic Documentation, at the State Museum for Applied Art in Munich in 1967, approaching their work (first published in architectural journals) from the standpoint of J. M. Richards's The Functional
Tradition in Early Industrial Buildings (1958),
with Eric de Maré's photographs.
Along
with The Destroyed Room, Wall considers Picture for Women to be his first success in challenging
photographic tradition.