If you're looking for an excuse to get out of the house, MoMA is showing Nan Goldin's The Ballad of Sexual Dependency and an exhibition of Josef Albers» Bauhaus - era experimentations
with photocollage.
My favorite discovery was a suite of colorful bar graphs charting women's labor productivity, souped up
with photocollages of climbing high - rises and satisfied workers: a rather more inventive kind of data journalism.
Not exact matches
The catalogue reproduces nearly 200 works, including 12 works in glass produced between 1921 and 1932; nearly 30 photographs and
photocollages, many of which are previously unpublished; a selection of woodcuts and gouaches, and several items of furniture; the seven record sleeves Albers designed for Command Records (
with their classic gatefold sleeves, which Albers helped to conceive); the paintings for which he is so well known; and a selection of theoretical texts.
Arguably the least familiar aspect of his extraordinary career was his inventive engagement
with photography, only widely known after his death, including his production of approximately 70
photocollages that feature photographs he made at the Bauhaus between 1928 and 1932.
Hockney's involvement
with the depiction of space is traced in this exhibition from the 1960s, through his
photocollages of the 1980s and the Grand Canyon paintings of the late 1990s, to the recent paintings of East Yorkshire, many of which have been made en plein air.
«They were inventive
with it,» he says of the designers» witty transformation of Gravity's Rainbow — his 1999
photocollage of leaves, pills, and flowers — into printed necklaces on a dress of black silk.
Hockney has also worked
with photography, or, more precisely,
photocollage.
David Hockney has made paintings, drawings, lithographic and etching prints, designed stage sets and worked
with photography and
photocollage.
Yet Albers's engagement
with modernist photography remained largely hidden until after his death, and it is only now that the entire series of unique
photocollages the artist produced at the famed art school — before he and his wife fled Nazi Germany for the US — has been published together, many for the first time.
Also on view at the AGO this summer: Drama and Desire: Artists and the Theatre, opening June 19; Playing
with Pictures: The Art of Victorian
Photocollage, opening June 5; and The Storyteller, opening June 9.
One and One Is Four: The Bauhaus
Photocollages of Josef Albers, a new installation featuring 16
photocollages, is on view at The Museum of Modern Art, while the book of the same title by Sarah Hermanson Meister,
with 140 pages and 120 colour and duotone illustrations, is published by MoMA and by Thames & Hudson outside the US and Canada.
Experimenting
with photography in the mid-1970s, Hockney went on to create his famous
photocollages with Polaroids and snapshot prints arranged in a grid formation, pushing the two - dimensionality of photography to the limit, fragmenting the monocular vision of the camera and activating the viewer in the process.
Asus has confirmed at the CES that it would offer a dedicated Asus Zen UI
with VR 360 degrees application support for Gallery and
PhotoCollage as well as ZenCircle applications.
Take full control
with the Camera app's DSLR - like settings, then use
PhotoCollage to build beautiful montages or MiniMovie to blend unforgettable personal movies.