Where Fredrickson reveals a collection of
polaroid images chronicling his time as a sex worker, Sothern showcases, Lowlife 1985 — 1981, a series of black and white shots of Los Angeles - based sex workers in the 1980s.
While the drawings and prints in the exhibition reflect the purity of his mark - making, his deadpan humor comes across especially in a series of drawn - on
polaroid images of his fingernails.
Patti Smith and Judy Linn, c. 1974 black and white
polaroid image: 2 7/8 x 3 3/4 inches (7.3 x 9.5 cm) polaroid: 3 3/8 x 4 1/4 inches (8.6 x 10.8 cm) framed: 12 3/4 x 12 3/4 x 1 1/4 inches (32.4 x 32.4 x 3.2 cm) MAP - PD385 © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.
Lucy, Paris, 1973 black and white
polaroid image: 2 7/8 x 3 3/4 inches (7.3 x 9.5 cm) polaroid: 3 3/8 x 4 1/4 inches (8.6 x 10.8 cm) framed: 12 3/4 x 12 3/4 x 1 1/4 inches (32.4 x 32.4 x 3.2 cm) MAP - PD203 © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.
Untitled (Peter Berlin), c. 1974 black and white
polaroid image: 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches (11.4 x 8.9 cm) polaroid: 5 3/4 x 4 3/16 inches (14.6 x 10.6 cm) framed: 12 3/4 x 12 3/4 x 1 1/4 inches (32.4 x 32.4 x 3.2 cm) MAP - PD292 © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.
Untitled, c. 1973 black and white
polaroid image: 2 7/8 x 3 3/4 inches (7.3 x 9.5 cm) polaroid: 3 3/8 x 4 1/4 inches (8.6 x 10.8 cm) framed: 12 3/4 x 12 3/4 x 1 1/4 inches (32.4 x 32.4 x 3.2 cm) unique work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity MAP - PD1538
Robert Mapplethorpe Untitled (Graflex), 1974 black and white
polaroid image: 2 7/8 x 3 3/4 inches (7.3 x 9.5 cm) polaroid: 3 3/8 x 4 1/4 inches (8.6 x 10.8 cm) framed: 12 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches (32.4 x 32.4 cm) unique MAP - PD713
Not exact matches
When «Radical Presence» opened at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, last year, it also included five works from Piper's 1975 series I am the Locus, collaged and painted
Polaroids on which
images of Piper as the Mythic Being are inserted into scenes of a crowded street.
The accompanying catalog is the first to gather photographic
images by Thomas, including portraits, collages,
Polaroids, and other processes.
This admiration of the mundane or kitsch can be seen throughout the exhibition whether via Polly Apfelbaum's polychromatic floral
polaroids or Lichtenstein's
images of love and war in his famed, distinctive style.
I was more interested in collage and photographers like Lucas Samaras, who manipulates his
Polaroids, and Victor Burgin, who combined
images with text and in series, than I was in straight photography.
In these works, Baselitz revisits an early double - portrait of himself and his wife Elke, from 1975 entitled Bedroom, reinterpreting the
image using recent
polaroids of himself and Elke nude, sitting in a similar position as Dix's parents.
Here he also showcases unique
Polaroids from the 1970s and a selection of
images taking animals as their subject matter.
Selections from Twins and Prom explore — in large format
Polaroids — siblings at the Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio, and prom - goers across the U.S.
Images from Mark's work for LIFE magazine about the Damms, a homeless family in California, express the grim reality of survival on spare change and welfare checks.
Reinterpreting the Otto Dix
image using recent
polaroids of himself and Elke nude, sitting in a similar position as Dix's parents, the artist painted the figures using predominantly black and white palette and addressed the powerful themes of his celebrated «Avignon» canvases exhibited at the 2015 Venice Biennale.
Hockney began working extensively with photographs from 1976, making composite
images out of
polaroids in 1982.
From the softly focused, romantic
images the Pictorialists made in the early 1900s to the casual color
polaroids Andy Warhol took of the celebrities around him in the early 1970s, these works also trace the evolving styles and functions of photography as it documented artistic movements and increasingly served as a primary artistic medium in itself.
The works range from Lydia Ourahmane's
Polaroids of migrants sheltering in Algerian caves before crossing the Mediterranean, to Hengameh Golestan's
images of a women's protest against the chador in Iran in 1979.
Making pictures with the iPhone you have an accurate reproduction of an
image, but you don't have the «qualities» that you value with
Polaroids.
«Farberesque: From Pensive to Provocative» will feature newly - released prints of Farber's classic fashion
images, selections from his Americana landscape series, vintage SX70
Polaroids and
images of New York City.Works on view will showcase Farber's romantic and impressionism style.
Focusing on the theme of the hand, Buhl has gathered
images spanning the history of photography, from a photogenic drawing negative made in 1840 by William Henry Fox Talbot to serial
Polaroids made in 2002 by Cornelia Parker.
This week Pace opens a show of twenty new works by Samaras that directly evolved from his early experiments with
Polaroids and manipulated
images.
The different types of
images include black & white silver gelatin prints, C - prints,
polaroids, scans, digital inkjet prints, painting and silkscreen.
A crucial aspect of Dumas's work is her discovery of the
images from which she draws inspiration, be it in newspapers, magazines, film stills, films or
polaroids she herself has taken.
The
Polaroids are not only fascinating records of Warhol's artistic process but also dynamic
images in their own right, recording genuine moments between the artist and his subject.
Over the course of ten years, Aicher distilled
images of town life — its church spires, grazing cows and the rolling foothills of the Alps — into to a series of square landscapes reminiscent of
Polaroids, or even Instagram — everyday moments rendered entirely in black and white.
They're these pretty digital
images in contrast to [the multi-exposed]
Polaroids I've been making.»
Chuck Close Photographs, on view from March 20 through October 2, 2016 features 86
images from 1964 to the present and illustrates the full range of the artist's exploration of photography — from early black and white maquettes, to monumental composite
Polaroids, to intimately scaled daguerreotypes and recent Polaroid nudes.
Works on view include 24 x 20 - inch large - format, single -
image Polaroids Ray, 1979, and Self - Portrait, 1979 Known for depicting
images of friends and family in his paintings, Close expanded his subject interests in his photographic work to include people he has met throughout his career, such as artists, dancers, actors, or politicians: Jasper, 1997 (Jasper Johns); Robert, 1997; Hillary Rodham Clinton, 1999; Renée, 2007; Bill T.Jones, 2008, and Alec Baldwin, 2010, among others.
Significantly, the exhibition notes that «while the
Polaroids tended to turn everyone into a glamorous Warhol icon, the black - and - white
images... tended to make everyone ordinary.»
Images from a
polaroid camera capture a tableau of materials, echoing sculpture and painting and transforming preconceived notions.
crayon with a title or a quote newspaper clippings and magazines and sometimes objects the paper used would usually be cut from personal snapshots
polaroid photographs and thousands of
images torn from magazines and newspapers a painting is never a literal rendition of a (2 words, 13 characters)
The eclectic
polaroids of the late German artist Horst Ademeit are obsessive recordings of «cold rays» and other forms of real and
imaged radiation that in the artist's complex reality measure up to the irrational recording of fear.
The
images were conceived of by a combination of memories, dreams, google searches and a few surviving
polaroids.
Now her portraits are more compellingly erotic, especially in her black - and - white
Polaroids, such as the
image Courbet 4 (Marie: Centered) where the artist positions the nude face and torso in the forward picture plane.
Black and white and colour photographs,
polaroid's and coloured slides
Images of drawings, etchings and bronze sculptures, colour slides of installation shots from the solo exhibition at the Iowa Museum of Art (1995), slides of installation shots by JC Mazur possibly from the group exhibition «Feminin - Masculin» at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (1995), colour
Polaroid photographs of small bronze pieces of women labelled «Copperfield Archive», «Zilko» and «Umbilical Cord».
Executed in a number of stages between 1993 and 1998, the bequest encompassed works from all periods of Mapplethorpe's work, from his early collages,
Polaroids, and mixed - media constructions to his iconic
images of male and female nudes, flowers, and statues.
Using this service and their smart phones, users could apply digital filters to
images to make them look like
Polaroids or antique photos and then share them with friends and family members using their social networks.