He likely worked from starkly lit, black - and -
white photographs he had taken — studies in shapes and patterns, solids and voids.
Not exact matches
Although it wasn't the type of camera you
'd take to document a family vacation — at eight pounds, the camera
took 0.01 megapixel black and
white photographs that were recorded onto a cassette tape.
If you
would like a set of
white background and still - life
photographs, you can
take part in both Leeds shoots — but if you
would like to attend the sessions, please note that they
take place on different days.
Though it's tempting to think you must spend thousands of dollars on equipment to
take great
photographs, Joshua
White is helping prove that the best camera is the one you
have on you when the inspiration strikes.
«That means that the lighting under which the
photograph was
taken must
have been a fairly good
white — that is, an even mixture of all wavelengths or colors — and thus a flat spectrum.»
I
have bought and returned several
white tops, because they seem fine to me in the store, but when I get home and
take photographs, they look terrible!
Films that might
have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him,
takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that
has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and
white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who
has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.
When we
had deprived the house of all its items, when the objects
had vanished and the colors
had faded into eight gray suitcases, like errant genies evaporating into their bottles, my students and I stood against the bare
white wall of the dining room and
took two
photographs.
Lucas
has a broad oak desk covered in neat piles of paper and a framed black - and -
white photograph of a woman whom I
take to be his wife.
It's also time for my annual July 4th photo essay, capturing the red,
white and blue in
photographs my fellow travel writers and photographers
have taken during their travels.
Inspired by classic group portraits throughout art history, she
has taken black - and -
white film
photographs of the artistic crowd inhabiting Bushwick today, which will be exhibited alongside her photos of early Bushwick and Panero's writings on the neighborhood.
I
've never met a person I couldn't call a beauty. - Andy Warhol From 1970 to 1987 Andy Warhol
took scores of Polaroid and black - and -
white photographs, the vast majority of which were never seen by the public.
Taken in an auto - body shop in Los Angeles, the
photograph is a to - scale representation of a stark
white wall, onto which silhouettes of tools
have
Katy Grannan's
photographs of strangers in San Francisco and Hollywood
have only two rules: they must be
taken against a
white background and the subjects musn't look at the camera.
When Jimmy De Sana (1950 - 1990) moved to New York City in 1973, he
had already completed 101 Nudes, a series of black - and -
white photographs of naked men and women
taken in and around his suburban home in Atlanta.
You could
take a wonderful book like Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina, which was incredibly painful to read but
had humor in it, or your own book, Dogeaters; or
take Jason Rhoade's installation,
white trash confabulations; or a painting of mine, and Nan Goldin's gritty and beautiful
photographs, and I think you
'd have a real comparison of what making something with pleasure looks like.
After
taking the mandatory color
photographs for his employer, he
would shoot black and
white portraits of the subjects for himself.
Aoyama
has gained a reputation for making the past more transfixing by
taking old black - and -
white photographs and scrupulously embroidering them where the
photographed subjects themselves are doing the same.
Although Wool is known principally for his painting, he
has also made his mark in black - and -
white photography,
taking a large number of
photographs at night in New York City, around the Lower East Side and Chinatown.
And I realized I
had to do something 1983 Rammelzee vs K Rob «Beat Bop» 1984 First shows at Clarissa Dalrymple and Nicole Klagsbrun's Cable Gallery (artists of Wool's generation who begin showing same period include Philip Taaffe Jeff Koons Mike Kelley Cady Noland and James Nares 1984 produces first book photocopied edition of four: 93 Drawings of Beer on the Wall 1984 Warhol Rorschach paintings 1986 First pattern paintings 1987 Joins Luhring Augustine Gallery 1987 First word paintings 1988 Collaborative installation with Robert Gober one painting by Wool (Apocalypse Now) one sculpture by Gober (Three Urinals) one collaborative
photograph (Untitled) and a mirror Gary Indiana contributes a short piece of fiction to the accompanying publication 1988 In Cologne sees show of Albert Oehlen's work meets Martin Kippenberger 1988 First European shows Cologne and Athens 1988 Collaborates with Richard Prince on two paintings: My Name and My Act 1989 Museum Group shows in Amsterdam Frankfurt am Main and Munich Whitney Biennial 1989 One year fellowship at the American Academy in Rome 1989 Starts
taking photographs 1989 Publishes Black Book an oversized collection of 9 - letter images 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall 1990 Meets Larry Clark 1991 First survey mounted at Boymans - Van Beuningen Museum Rotterdam publishes accompanying artist's book Cats in Bag Bags in River color photocopies of
photographs of black and
white paintings 1991 Creates edition of small paintings for ACT - UP New York Needle Exchange 1991 Participates in Carnegie International includes painting and billboard with truncated text announcing «THE SHOW IS OVER» 1991 Meets Jim Lewis 1991 Relocates studio to East 9th Street in New York 1992 LA riots 1992 DAAD residency in Berlin 1993 Publishes Absent Without Leave 160 black - and -
white images from travel
photographs taken over previous 4 years 1993 Begins silkscreened flower paintings 1993 Meets Michel Majerus 1994 Makes road - signs for Martin Kippenberger's Museum of Modern Art Syros 1994 New York Knicks lose to Houston Rockets in Game 7 NBA Finals 1995 Organizes retrospective of the New Cinema late 70's New York underground Super-8 films 1995 First spray - paintings 1995 Kids 1996 East Village studio severely damaged in building fire leaving Wool without a working space for 8 months artist's insurance photos become portfolio Incident on 9th Street 1997 Marries painter Charline von Heyl 1998 Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles mounts mid-career retrospective travels to Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh and Kunsthalle Basel 1998 Begins silkscreen re-imaging of own work 2001 Solo exhibition at Secession Vienna 2002 «Grey» paintings 2003 East Broadway Breakdown photos of New York City 2005 First digital drawings 2006 Contributes art to Sonic Youth Rather Ripped 2007 Collaborates with Josh Smith on Can Your Monkey Do the Dog 2008 Collaborates with Richard Hell on Psychopts 2008 Christopher Wool lives and works in New York and Marfa Texas
Ledare
has taken photographs of his mother
having sex and McCarthy caused quite a stir with his debaucherous Snow
White - inspired installation at the Park Avenue Armory.
Mira Dancy's gorgeous, joyful mural of a reclining female nude, for instance,
takes off across from the ecstasy of feminist artist Mary Beth Edelson's Woman Rising (1973), a black - and -
white photograph in which a woman stands in an open desert, her arms stretched out toward the sky in a gesture of empowerment and freedom that is reinforced by a
V - shaped line of contrails in the sky.
You can tell it's an old
photograph by the fact that they are all
white men — the profession
has changed since it was
taken (you can also tell it's old by the suits).