Currently living and working in Beijing, the spirit of his work resonates with a new generation of emerging Chinese artists using
photography as an instrument to capture human encounters with a rapidly developing China.
First Attempts, the galleries of the exhibition will play host to a conversation between the artist and Jorge Ribalta, the show's curator, on
photography as an instrument for capturing life at its most vulnerable and precarious, and as a public service and a form of institutional critique.
As an artist, Bourke - White continued to use
photography as an instrument to examine social issues from a humanitarian perspective.
Not exact matches
Soon to turn 65, but enjoying my creative side with
Photography, video, drawing, costuming, playing different musical
instruments as much
as composing music, writing poetry.
... It is
photography, therefore — Black, African, homosexual
photography — which I must use not just
as an
instrument, but
as a weapon if I am to resist attacks on my integrity and, indeed, my existence on my own terms.
Thematic group exhibitions include Audible Imagery: Sound and
Photography; The Furtive Gaze, works by artists who use the camera
as an
instrument of surveillance; Camera / Action: Performance and
Photography; and Anticipation, exploring strategies of slowness and suspense in time - based art.
Relating to performance - based and conceptual approaches to video and
photography, the art of Phil Collins employs elements of popular culture, low - budget television and reportage - style documentary to address the camera
as an
instrument of both truth and deception.
Both used art
as a tool for active social and cultural change, often utilizing the look of amateur snapshot
photography - the camera became an
instrument of democratic action.
The exhibition presents a polyphonic set of works marked by the presence of
photography as a narrative
instrument.
György Kepes will demonstrate the artist's experimental approach to
photography, a medium which he understood
as an
instrument of modern technology able to connect his painting, films, scientific experiments and environmental art projects.
John Berger, from «A Jerome of
Photography: The Camera
As an
Instrument of Knowing,» Harper's, December 2005, p. 87