For Working Back he will
show photographic documentation of ephemeral sculptural forms made with things found in proximity to one another in the waste sites that surround the urban environment.
Not exact matches
detail of a
photographic plate from NGS - POSS I'll get some more systematic
documentation shots of the
show and the pieces in it soon, but in the mean time, here are some pictures I snapped last week.
Examples include Julia Margaret Cameron's soft - focused and reverential Herbert Wilson (1868), which helped to move
photographic portraiture from pure
documentation to artistic intention; and Edward Curtis's field - printed cyanotype of an American Indian (c.1900 - 1930), which also
shows how early photographers checked the quality of their images before digital photography.
In the same West 22nd Street building, Yancey Richardson also
shows a wide range of
photographic imagery, from Julius Shulman's straightforward
documentation of midcentury modernist architecture to Mitch Epstein's large - format color photographs of the contemporary social landscape.
As a student of architectural history, I took the Bechers artistically for granted on happening to walk into their first museum
show, Industrial Building 1830 — 1930: A
Photographic Documentation, at the State Museum for Applied Art in Munich in 1967, approaching their work (first published in architectural journals) from the standpoint of J. M. Richards's The Functional Tradition in Early Industrial Buildings (1958), with Eric de Maré's photographs.
Designed World is the first museum
show of Peter Keetman (1916 - 2005) for 20 years, depicting not only the revolutionary industralised
photographic works, but the poetic contributions that the artist made during the post-ward period, through movement studies and
documentation of a seemingly shapeless, fragmented world.