PHOTOGRAPHY, Page 18
William Eggleston is known for his pioneering work in color photography, which he helped establish as a serious artistic medium. Using a color intense, dye-transfer printing process and working within the seemingly artless snapshot style, Eggleston photographed everyday life, adhering to a philosophy of the “democratic camera” that ignored representational …
Appropriation took on new significance in mid-20th Century America and Britain with the rise of consumerism and the proliferation of popular images …
The exhibition “Diane Arbus: In The Beginning” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), considers the first seven years of …
Eric Cahan, is Influenced by the Impressionists’ depiction of natural light and its ever-changing qualities, as well as Color Theory. For him, …
Fruitlands was a Utopian agrarian commune established in Harvard, Massachusetts by Amos Bronson Alcott and Charles Lane in the 1840s, based on …
Trained in photography Stéphanie Solinas developed a varied practice including book and installation to further investigate the medium of photography. Through sophisticated …
Wolfgang Tillmans has earned recognition as one of the most exciting and innovative artists working today. First rising to prominence in the …
Francesco Jodice graduated as an architect and began his artistic activity in 1995. From his very first works, undertaken in a specifically …
The Dutch photographer and filmmaker Ed van der Elsken is well known for his remarkable street photographs. He recorded his encounters with …
Her long career in photography has established Cindy Sherman as one of the most influential figures in contemporary art. At first painting …
Metropolitan Museum of Art began collecting photographs in 1928, when Alfred Stieglitz made the first of several important gifts to the Museum. …
Since his late teens, Naoki Ishikawa has been travelling to the earth’s far corners and has scaled the highest peaks on all …
Hiroshi Sugimoto has defined what it means to be a multi-disciplined contemporary artist, blurring the lines between photography, painting, installation, and most …
Michael Kenna is one of the most influential landscape photographers of his generation, best known for his black & white landscapes. Often …
Metropolitan Museum of Art began collecting photographs in 1928, when Alfred Stieglitz made the first of several important gifts to the Museum. …
Thomas Ruff has fundamentally changed our relationship to the photographic image, moving it beyond reactionary ideas of documentation and supposed “truth” towards …
For the presentation of her work Candida Höfer not only uses traditional photography in various sizes adjusted to the demands of composition, …
The work of the artist and educator Josef Albers formed the basis of some of the most influential art education programs of …
In his approach to photography, Thomas Ruff explores a breadth of themes that is reflected in the range of techniques he employs: …
Seydou Keïta is now considered one of the greatest photographers of the 2nd half of the 20th Century. Showing off his subjects …
On 19/1/1981 Francesca Woodman jumped to her death from the window of a N. York loft. As a photographer, she was prodigious …
On his recent works, Andreas Gursky explores the abstract potential of the photographic medium. From early in his career, abstraction has …
Andres Serrano unveils an often disturbing reality through his camera. Religion, death, sex and violence perfuse the American artist’s work. Since the …
Thomas Brummett stands for the unification of two essentially diametrically opposed approaches. On the one hand, he creates enlarged, detailed shots in …
