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Featuring a selection of American vernacular photographs recently donated to the Museum, this exhibition explores how amateur photographers circumvented and at times unsettled assumptions about what a portrait might be.

Featuring a selection of American vernacular photographs recently donated to the Museum by New York collector Peter Cohen, this exhibition explores how amateur photographers circumvented and at times unsettled assumptions about what a portrait might be.

American School, 19th / 20th Century Box of Approximately 500 Vernacular Photographs, Including Portraits, Niagara Views, Sports Activities, and Travel Subjects.

Working from found vintage and vernacular photographs, Lyle seamlessly composes works that

These works are paired alongside selected vernacular photographs from the Pilara Foundation Collection, illustrating another instance in which found pictures can offer new meaning through a simple change of context.

Portland Art Museum opens exhibition of vernacular photographs of, by, and for African Americans

Interdisciplinary artist using vernacular photographs, tourist ephemera, and American landmarks.

From mounting Jackson Pollock's first solo museum exhibition in 1945 to exhibiting vernacular photographs and championing the emerging Mission School scene in the mid-1990s, SFMOMA has consistently broken new ground, expanding the conventional wisdom of what an art museum should present and collect.

New York — On Thursday, October 19, Swann Auction Galleries» sale of Art & Storytelling: Art & Photobooks combined works spanning the lifetime of the medium into an auction intended to «highlight the interrelationships between fine art, documentary and vernacular photographs,» according to Daile Kaplan, Vice President and Director of Photographs & Photobooks at Swann Galleries.

The diverse works on view include rare early pictures, major examples of the Pictorialist art movement by figures such as Peter Henry Emerson and George Seeley, and a broad range of twentieth - century art and vernacular photographs.

Peter J. Cohen is a New York - based collector of snapshots and vernacular photographs.

«I love the combination of anonymous vernacular photographs and important historical works,» said Jack Shear, photographer, collector and exhibition co-curator.

American and European Schools, 19th / 20th Century Eleven Framed Vernacular Photographs, Including Several Aerial Views and Portraits, and the Lion of Lucerne by Giorgio Sommer.

Not exact matches

There is an inventive world of vernacular bot - stopping solutions on personal websites: an email address ending with «oryx,» with a note to remove the «genus of antelope» before sending; a very simple joke for which you must choose the obviously correct punchline; a photograph you must briefly describe («am I in the house or on the beach?»)

Individual collections include: examples of British vernacular culture from Peter Blake; the eclectic contents of two rooms from Hanne Darboven's family home in Hamburg; Damien Hirst's skulls, taxidermy and medical models; Indian paintings from Howard Hodgkin; Dr. Lakra's record covers and scrapbooks, Sol LeWitt's Japanese prints, modernist photographs and music scores; 20th century British postcards and Soviet space dog memorabilia from Martin Parr; Hiroshi Sugimoto's 18th century French and Japanese anatomical prints and books; Andy Warhol's cookie jars; more than 1,000 scarves and other textiles by the American designer Vera Neumann from Pae White; and a collection of thousands of objects assembled by Martin Wong and subsequently acquired by Danh Vo.

Earlier this year «System and Vision» at David Zwirner, in cooperation with Berlin's Galerie Susanne Zander, examined the obsessive work of vernacular artists such as Morton Bartlett, a doll maker who photographed his creepy creations; Prophet Royal Robertson, an artist of brimstone - burnt apocalyptic fervor; and George Widener, a living artist whose mixed - media pieces entail complex mathematical and calendrical calculations.

The 2014 titles include Tony Oursler / Vox Vernacular and Unfamiliar Streets: The Photographs of Richard Avedon, Charles Moore, Martha Rosler and Philip - Lorca diCorica.

Individual collections include: African art and samurai armour owned by Arman; examples of British vernacular culture from Peter Blake; the eclectic contents of two rooms from Hanne Darboven's family home in Hamburg; Edmund de Waal's Japanese netsuke; Damien Hirst's skulls, taxidermy and medical models; Indian paintings from Howard Hodgkin; Dr. Lakra's record covers and scrapbooks, Sol LeWitt's Japanese prints, modernist photographs and music scores; 20th century British postcards and Soviet space dog memorabilia from Martin Parr; Jim Shaw's thrift store paintings; Hiroshi Sugimoto's 18th century French and Japanese anatomical prints and books; Andy Warhol's cookie jars; more than 1,000 scarves and other textiles by the American designer Vera Neumann from Pae White; and a collection of thousands of objects assembled by Martin Wong and subsequently acquired by Danh Vo.

Beverly Buchanan (born 1940) examines southern vernacular architecture in her vibrant and expressive sculpture, paintings and photographs.

«Vik, 2 Years Old,» a 2014 photograph by Brazilian - American photographer Vik Muniz — This large - scale photograph (approximately 8 by 6 feet), which entered the collection through the High's 2016 Collectors Evening, is from the artist's «Album» series, for which Muniz builds replicas of familiar moments with small pieces of discarded vernacular snapshots pasted together to form scenes.

Although his photographs are nowhere near as original as his art, they're solid examples of a midcentury American style that zeroed in on the vernacular, the ephemeral, and the everyday.

Mies's model, as depicted in a series of photographs he took in 1922, is a transparent monolith that towers above a swarm of vernacular housing he designed to appear horrifying and decrepit.

Works by renowned masters of the medium exist side - by - side with vernacular and scientific photographs.

Peter B. Leighton, for example, is interested in the ways we epitomize the past, and so he works with vintage vernacular photography to seamlessly construct new images with found photographs.

By placing colorful dots over faces, obscuring portions of scenes, or juxtaposing stock photographs with quixotic phrases, he injects humor and dissonance into vernacular imagery.

The gallery shows works by 20th century master photographers, lesser - known mid-century photographers, the Pictorialists, select contemporary artists, as well as unique vernacular and anonymous photographs and selected 19th century works.

Evie McKenna takes photographs of vernacular gardens, which explore the interaction of organic elements and the built environment.

Included in the show will be a group of related photographs by the artist, as well as a selection of vernacular sculptural objects that set a new imaginative context for Sommer's work.

With its title, the harsh lighting and slightly larger than life size, the photograph plays with the vernacular style and inherent contradictions of the family snapshot.

Using the written word as a foundation for photographs, she constructs images by building letters and phrases out of vernacular materials such as cardboard, wood, and cinder blocks, calling attention to the ways language and imagery are put together.

Vernacular examples from the sale include a remarkable suite of fifty unbound silver print photographs by Martin Chambi showing scenes of Peru in the 1920s.

The British vernacular, meanwhile, is the subject of Stuart Whipps's photographs, slideshows and videos (Spike Island, Bristol, 9 Jul to 18 Sep).

Drawing inspiration from such sources as local architecture, amateur photographs, and state fair banners, their work runs the aesthetic spectrum from sleek to handcrafted, underscoring the diverse manifestations of the vernacular within our lived environment and its impact on artists working today.

Arriving in Seattle from Amsterdam shortly after World War II, he began photographing a newly discovered landscape of billboards, vernacular architecture, and neon signs.

The book and show unabashedly forced the art world to deal with color photography, a medium scarcely taken seriously at the time, and with the vernacular content of a body of photographs that could have been but definitely weren't some average American's Instamatic pictures from the family album.

Her practice borrows from simultaneous visual traditions, including photographic and figurative portraiture, social documentary aesthetics, and vernacular family - album photographs.

«In Our Glory» provides great context and insight to the use of vernacular family photographs in Hewitt's work.

The photographs were all images of non-idealized landscapes, a mundane American vernacular — sprawling repetitive suburban areas, anonymous «strip» malls, one and two - story structures along highways, liminal urban areas — each bearing witness to a potential social critique.

Theatre also features architectural drawings and photographs that, across decades, have documented American vernacular suburban architecture.

Using personal photographs of southern vernacular architecture, namely from Georgia (where the artist was raised) and Hale County, Alabama (a location associated with much of Walker Evans» depression - era photographs), Poor's -LSB-...]

«I went into that landscape, in Tuscaloosa and Hale counties primarily, and began to photograph the things that caught my eye, the vernacular architecture in particular, the country graveyards, which were beautiful things.