After a number of attempts I settled on one small black and
white photographic portrait of a dog.
Over time, my production has evolved from black and
white photographic portraits and narrative videos to creating hybrid «sites», images and installations employing photographs, videos and film, archives and found materials, projected sounds and reflective surfaces, works focusing on the individual's role in history and in time.
Not exact matches
Sory Sanlé: Volta Photo 1965 - 85 is a fascinating collection of black and
white photographic work by Sory Sanlé, an eminent
portrait photographer from Burkina Faso, the landlocked country in West Africa formerly colonised by the French, then known as Republique de Haute - Volta.
Kamolpan Chotvichai creates haunting black - and -
white photographic self -
portraits that couldn't be achieved simply with photo manipulation.
Note, for example, the sense of depth evoked by the banquet scene in the bottom right corner of Hazard (1957, fig. 3), which Rauschenberg juxtaposed with a similar
photographic group
portrait to its left, wherein the perspectival illusion has been undermined (in precisely the manner Steinberg describes) by means of a translucent scumble of
white paint.
With an extraordinary knowledge of
photographic techniques, he created black - and -
white portraits of people, animals and landscapes that capture beauty and transcend the boundary between life and death.
The exhibition allies a range of highly varied works; Reza Aramesh's critical reconfiguration of postures of oppression taken from the documentary
photographic record of the late 20th century within the context of high - cultural legacy of the Enlightenment, Jake & Dinos Chapman's attack of those same Enlightenment spawned delusions of cultural progress, Desiree Dolron's exquisite, dense, almost painterly rendering of light and shadow within the
photographic medium, Terence Koh's
white - on -
white neon declaration of Eternal Love, Wayne Horse's lighter - lit display of sub-cultural, cul - de-sacs articulated in a trash aesthetic, Dawn Mellor's radical
portraits of female film stars, re-contextualized from the objectifying gaze of cinematic light into the critical, imaginative space afforded by painting, Gino Saccone's loose but formal play of material, surface and light in his multi-media, sculptural assemblages, Peter Schuyff's abstract, shaded path from ambient light into a dark portal and finally Conrad Shawcross» beautiful and austere kinetic work that emanates an ever shifting pattern in shadow and light.
Displayed in casually elegant arrays, in odd corners and on the stairs, Tillmans» images take us from total
photographic abstraction to a tiny black - and -
white image of bare trees, from a colourful closeup of a car's headlight to a
portrait of an onion.
Lake's groundbreaking early work includes «A Genuine Simulation of...» (1973 — 74), a series of
photographic self -
portraits retouched with Covergirl makeup, and Miss Chatelaine (1973), a grid of black - and -
white photos of the artist, each embellished with a different hat or head of hair cut from Chatelaine, a Canadian women's magazine.
Many of the
portraits are like
photographic negatives,
white on black.
Inspired by his mentors» early «photo paintings» and stark black and
white images, Struth developed a unique
photographic perspective, creating
portraits of families, architectural facades, urban experiences, and crowds.
& #xA0; Robert Moran's
photographic practice spans black &
white vistas of icebergs, moody street scenes and memorizing
portraits.
Inspired by his mentors» early «photo paintings» and stark black and
white images, Struth developed a unique
photographic perspective, creating
portraits of families...
In her signature painted and
photographic portraits of family, friends, lovers, and pop - culture icons, Thomas draws on and deconstructs 19th - and 20th - century traditions of portraiture, replacing the ubiquitous
white female nude with voluptuous African American women.
Hujar felt like he was the end of a
photographic era — perhaps one of more formal images, intimate
portraits, black - and -
white prints.
«We never get tired of looking at faces,» says Torben Åndahl, whose black and
white photograph, Eike, is featured in this year's Taylor Wessing
Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition.