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I’ve come across the name Ed Ruscha a few times and am aware of his books Twentysix Gasoline Stations and Every Building on the Sunset Strip but did not know much more about him. This short film commissoned by the … Continue reading Ed Ruscha
Learning objective three for this course is to ‘show a developed critical understanding of contemporary practice in relation to historical practice and theory, and the themes explored in this unit’. When trying to find a post that illustated this I … Continue reading Hendrik Kerstens
Whilst research Alec Soth’s Sleeping By The Mississippi I came across this talk given by Alec Soth in 2012. I think it is interesting to hear him talking about how he goes about creating work, particularly how he has ideas … Continue reading Photographing Place – Saatchi Gallery Google Hangout – 2012
Alec Soth (1969-) is an American photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 2004 his first book, and breakthrough work, Sleeping By The Mississippi was published. The book contains 46 images of people and places along the Mississippi. Shot … Continue reading Alec Soth – Sleeping By The Mississippi
Stephen Shore (1947 – ) is an American photograph who along with William Egglestone and Joel Meyerowitz were pioneers in the development of colour fine art photography in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Shore’s photographic career started at an … Continue reading Stephen Shore – Uncommon Places
Robert Frank (1924 – 2019) was a Swiss-American photographer most famous for his work The Americans, first published in France in 1958. The second child of a German father and Swiss Mother, Frank lived in Zurich where in 1941 he … Continue reading Robert Frank
Harry Callahan (1912 – 1999) was a self-taught American photographer who was inspired to take up photography as a career after attending a workshop given by Ansel Adams in 1941. Callahan worked for Chrysler before leaving to study engineering at … Continue reading Harry Callahan
Laura Letinsky’s image Untitled #54 is featured in the course notes and is from from the series Hardly More Than Ever which Letinsky shot over a seven year period from 1997 to 2004. The book is subtitled, The Posthumous Life of Leftovers and features images of the leftovers of meals along with text and poetry. Whilst the images definitely show sign of life with people being absent, I’m not sure how I feel about them. I think that the iamges are somewhat repetitive and the staging too contrived, as though the idea has been overdone. By contrast her series Somewhere, … Continue reading Laura Letinsky
How often do you see people walking and reading their texts or on the train and reading their tablet rather than enjoying the view? What are we missing when we do that? Breaking the initial question down into its two … Continue reading Research task – Your environment (P.125)
Dr. Greg Shapley is an Australian cross-media, composer, curator and academic. His work Phoenix is part of a series titled ‘Non-representational Self-Portraits’. The description of the artwork on the Saatchi Art website states that the work has: …literally, been extracted from an image of the artist’s face using an intriguing process developed over time by Dr Shapley. This is a mechanical photographic process, yet this image renders up a a myriad of organic, idiosyncratic detail more akin to illustration or design. Saatchi Art Unfortunately there is no more information about the process and little more about Dr. Shapley so it … Continue reading Research task – Greg Shapley – Phoenix (P.123)
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