The centerpiece of this exhibition is Partners (The Teddy Bear Project, 2002), a vast display conceived by Ydessa Hendeles composed of over 3,000 family - album
photographs of people posing with teddy bears, and vitrines containing antique teddy bears.
Composed of over 3,000 family - album
photographs of people posing with teddy bears, and vitrines containing antique teddy bears, Hendeles's project establishes the teddy bear as a metaphor for the consolatory power of artworks and images and underscores the symbiotic relationship that ties people to their objects of affection.
The centerpiece of the book is a vast display conceived by Ydessa Hendeles, composed of over 3,000 family - album
photographs of people posing with teddy bears, and vitrines containing antique teddy bears.
Not exact matches
This is one man's random splattering
of hubble
photographs interspersed with Brat Pitt
posing as a real
person and Sean Penn
Actor Joonas Suotamo, left, and a
person wearing a costume
of the character Chewbacca take a selfie
photograph as they
pose for photographers during a photo call for the film «Solo: A Star Wars Story» at the 71st international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 15, 2018.
There is also an option to purchase a «photo pack» which includes real
photographs of people in different
poses and moods as well.
A quick search for «puppies» will bring up hundreds
of websites that lure
people in with
photographs of tiny puppies
posed in front
of playful backgrounds or sitting in baskets adorned with flowers.
The left hand side
of the canvas is taken up with white
people cavorting and laying in the sun in a holidaying
pose, while the other half is based on a
photograph of Haitian refugees arriving in Florida.
Whether he was
photographing a
person, a dog, or a tree, his subject always seems to be
posing for the camera, aware
of being
photographed, yet never self - conscious.
The exhibition includes a selection
of large - scale
posed family portraits from his first one -
person show The Good Life in 1994 along with images from his Ektachrome Archive, which the artist
photographed between 1986 and 2000.
Stop by Karin Sander «s project at Booth 801 where she is capturing images
of people with a 3D White Light Scanner (the set up looks like you are
posing for a regular studio
photograph).