Other works on display include Seher Shah's graphite on paper drawings, Brutalist Traces (2015 - 16), of the modernist architecture of New Delhi; artist Gauri Gill's notebooks entitled «1984» (2005, 2009, 2014), from which are also displayed
several photographs of the people and interior spaces of the «Widows Colony» in Tilak Vihar, where families affected by the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 were provided housing by the state; and a series of streetscape photographs by Pablo Bartholomew, including Man Asleep in Front of Political Graffiti, Calcutta (1978) which embodies how, in South Asia, history inflects the everyday.
Not exact matches
The computer scientists use a circular array
of 40 DSLR cameras to
photograph the respective
person from all sides and use these images to compute
several million three - dimensional sample points on the
person's body.
Because each
photograph also contains
several thousand other
people, the
person you're looking for is just one among a sea
of faces.
Several people — friends or benevolent assistants
of the artists — lined up in a dark, bare room with the works in hand, ready to be
photographed by Gaestel.
The exhibition is divided into
several sectors: On the seventh floor, the section «Portrait
of the Artist» brings together self - portraits with portraits
of artists and other members
of the creative community; Early Twentieth Century Celebrity and Spectacle; under the rubric
of «Street Life» the exhibition presents artists who took to the pavement with their cameras,
photographing subjects as they encountered them, sometimes surreptitiously; Portraits Without
People; Body Bared (nude portraits); Self Conscious; Institutional Complex and Postwar Celebrity.
Recent projects revisit historical texts and
photographs which speak on the early colonization
of the Cayman Islands and the creation
of the Caymanian
people through the last
several hundred years
of the islands» social politics.
In addition to
photographing odd
people, Arbus also did
several portraits
of modern artists like Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968), James Rosenquist (b. 1933), Frank Stella (b. 1936) and Lucas Samaras (b. 1936), as well as writers like Jorge Luis Borges.
Among Ligon's own contributions to «Encounters and Collisions» were
several works with texts that employ the first -
person pronoun: In Untitled (I am drawn to sleaze...), 1985, the parenthetical phrase has been handwritten across an expanse
of juicy oil pigment; in Untitled (I Lost My Voice I Found My Voice), 1991, the text was repeatedly stenciled in oil stick onto a gessoed white ground until it became illegible; in Study for Condition Report, 2000, annotations identifying damage and wear are made on a photocopy
of a
photograph of a painting reprising the famous protest signs declaring I AM A MAN.