Even though Tillmans» subject matter for this show parallels traditional genres (emphasizing portraits, landscapes, interiors, still life, but also gestural abstraction and the monochrome), he made the viewers aware of
the physical quality of the photographs.
Not exact matches
In the opinion
of the Times» photography editor, the curator
of a university museum «came closest to the truth when she told the prosecutor..., «It's the tension between the
physical beauty
of the
photograph and the brutal nature
of what's going on in it that gives it the particular
quality that this work
of art has.
In Sticky Pictures, Werner makes visible the source material
of her paintings — not only the subject in the
photograph, but also the
photograph itself; the material
quality of the printed image, its traces
of weathering, handling and use, its
physical presence as an object lying on the corner
of a table or hanging loosely on a wall, in a space that might be a studio.
In Tim Davis's «Permanent Collection» series he takes
photographs of classic paintings ranging from still lifes to religious, using the light
of the camera's flash to obscure bits
of the composition and / or bring surface
qualities, such as brush strokes and crackling,
of the
physical object to light.
Her large - scale, black - and - white images convey her experience
of the emotional and
physical qualities of the places where
photographs.