Archive for the ‘Art’ Category
Reblogged from thinking practices: In mid-2011, I accessed a vernacular archive of slides which contained hundreds of images of Chile. These images were sent to England during the 80s to connect Chilean exiles (who were living in Britain at that time) with the changes that were taking place in their ‘homeland’ during Pinochet’s dictatorship (1973-1990). [...]
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Back to the Future
Photographer Irina Werning meticulously recreates family and vernacular photographs with the original subjects, years older. Fascinating, on many levels. It would be interesting to know how the participants felt during the reconstruction… All Photographs © Irina Werning. Click to see the full size images. All Photographs © Irina Werning http://irinawerning.com/
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Joachim Schmid – Interview
In this interview with Joachim Schmid by Lens Culture, he suggests that he remembers events and places he has travelled, through the photographs he finds in those places. The project has a personal level as well [...] its also my personal diary, I usually travel without a camera… so I don’t take any travel snapshots. When [...]
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in almost every picture #9
in almost every picture #9 is the latest addition to the long running series of found photography. This time around, we are presented with the peculiar story of one family’s attempts to photograph its black dog. “Attempts” being the operative word. Unfortunately, their camera’s limitations mean that the canine appears, time after time, as only [...]
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www.collectedvisions.net
C o l l e c t e d V i s i o n s was conceived by Lorie Novak and created in collaboration with Clilly Castiglia, Betsey Kershaw, and Kerry O’Neill. Launched in May 1996, Collected Visions is a participatory website that explores the relationship between family photographs and memory. The most significant [...]
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Anne Hardy
Text from http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/anne_hardy.htm Strange, fantastical, and a wee bit unsettling, Anne Hardy’s photographs invite glimpses into imaginary places, each suggesting fictions of a very surreal nature. Working in her studio, Hardy builds each of her sets entirely from scratch; a labour intensive process of constructing a barren room, then developing its elaborate interior down to [...]
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Arnaud Maggs – installations
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Lorie Novak: Interiors
Empty rooms are filled with “projections” replaying psychological and emotional events. http://lorienovak.com/
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June Clark
Amazing work using and manipulating found photographs. “June was born and brought up in Harlem, New York City. She emigrated to Canada in 1968, became a Canadian citizen and currently lives and works in Toronto.” Date made: 1989 Materials: photo etching (with text) Text reads: Grandma said, “when you pick your husband, think of what [...]
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Nicky Bird interviews
Interviews with Nicky Bird about her Hidden Place series: Nicky Bird Interview Part 1 Nicky Bird Interview Part 2
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Julian Walker
From his website: http://walkerjulian.tripod.com/id34.html Most of my work is site-specific; where it is not, it is strongly referencing an idea or set of ideas. In this sense it is reactive, exploring how I can understand specific bits of the world, or exploring how other people have done so. Hence my interest in museums, collections and [...]
Filed under: Installation, Julian Walker, Materiality, Memory Objects, The Archive, The Collection, Touch/Tactile Perception, Working with the archive | Closed
Claudia Angelmaier
From http://www.claudiaangelmaier.de/index.php The play with the images of art and their history is at the heart of Claudia Angelmaier’s work whereby particular focus lies on the pictures and their mechanical reproduction, material image and contextual situation. The protagonists of Angelmaier’s large-scale photographic works are books, postcards or transparencies and slides which show copies of “the [...]
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Mohini Chandra – Album Pacifica
One of my favourite works. It tells us more about photography than seeing ‘the photograph’ ever could. Buy the book here: http://www.cornerhouse.org/books/info.aspx?ID=745&page=0 I have scanned the images myself so hopefully this won’t have any copyright issues – but I want more people to be able to see this work!
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Mari Mahr
Mari Mahr rephotographs images and objects into subtle constructions of memory and narrative. Her book: http://books.google.com/books?id=cQ50QgAACAAJ&dq=inauthor:Mari+inauthor:Mahr
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Blog website that attempts to reunite owners and their photographs http://ifoundyourcamera.blogspot.com/#
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Labyrinth (My Mother’s Album) is a large-scale installation consisting of a series of narrow corridors leading in a maze-like double spiral. The viewer enters the installation through a door and is lead through progressively shorter corridors at right angles until he or she enters a small space in the centre of the labyrinth. This room, [...]
Filed under: Archive & Photography, Family album, Ilya Kabakov, Installation, Memory & Context, Memory & Photography, Memory Objects, Narrative & Photography, using found photography | 2 Comments
Verso
Work by Meggan Gould, typologies showing the reverse side of photographs. http://meggould.netfirms.com/site_seeingVII.htm#
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Tacita Dean: Floh
Images and text taken from this site: http://www.shanelavalette.com/journal/2007/09/03/tacita-dean-floh/ “Although much has been written about the demise of analog photography, no one has explored this subtle shift as elegantly as Tacita Dean,” writes Adam Bell on his blog. In her monograph, FLOH (2001), Dean delicately arranges photographs that she has discovered at flea markets across Europe [...]
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Tacita Dean: Kodak
See film here: http://www.ubuweb.com/film/dean_kodak.html Kodak 2006 Single screen projection, 16mm colour film with audio track duration: 44min installation Tacita Dean and digital: Having worked with film as her principal medium since the early 1990s, Dean feels passionately about the end of analogue film production as for her, the digital technology which is supplanting it: just [...]
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Tacita Dean
Articles: http://www.bombsite.com/issues/95/articles/2801 Exhibition Reviews: http://www.briansholis.com/exhibition-review-tacita-dean/
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Photography, Old & New Again
John Fleischman and Robert Kunzig Discover From the February 2002 issue, published online February 1, 2002 Weblink: http://discovermagazine.com/2002/feb/featphoto In 1847 one of the first daguerreotypes of an operation wowed viewers with its realism. A century and a half later, a new generation of holograms by optical engineer Yves Gentet—such as this one of a New [...]
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Kevin Dingman
Through the medium of photography I explore the emotions generated by abandoned, turn-of–the-century barns of the Midwest. These structures in most cases have outlived their usefulness in modern farming. Most are allowed to decay and return to the earth they occupied for so many years. Others have been rescued as monuments to the past, [...]
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Gene Laughter
“Nags Head on the Outer Banks of North Carolina was a quaint seaside village when I shot this image. Old weathered houses dotted the shoreline and dunes. They had made it through many nor’easters and hurricanes. There was usually a rocking chair or two on the porch and windows were left open so the sea [...]
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Ellen Susan: Soldier Portraits
The Soldier Portraits Project is a work in progress. The project consists of portrait photographs of soldiers of the United States Army, primarily of the 3rd Infantry Division. Until recently, the focus has been on the 3rd Infantry Division for its particularly active role in present day military events. The project is now open to [...]
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Harry Nankin
Website with info: http://www.diannetanzergallery.net.au/artist.php?name=Harry%20Nankin Articles: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/11/12/1100227560250.html?from=storyrhssites http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/sunmorn/stories/s1118828.htm
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Harry Nankin: The Rain
Night Air The Rain is a body of work that resides as much in our imagination as it exists as an artwork. The works present us with an unfamiliar view of a fragile rainforest ecosystem – as indexed in the night air, in leaf fall and precipitation amidst the scaffolding of wind, earth, branches [...]
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Hellena Cleary
Hellena thinks of herself as a disciple and pupil of Peter Fredrick, the inventor of the Temperaprint process. She retired from a life of commercial photography and was lucky enough to be able to pursue an interest in alternative photography and had the time to explore the various ways of how alternative photography can [...]
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‘In Defence of Alternative Processes’ by Mike Ware A polemic in response to some ill-considered editorial denigration of these minority practices. The Medium It is a truism that the manufacturers of photographic materials provide contemporary photographers with a narrower choice of monochrome printing papers today than they offered our counterparts in the past. Transferring the [...]
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Hamish Stewart
Hamish Stewart has been making photographs since the early 1980s. He began researching 19th century photographic processes during graduate studies in the mid 1980s. Although he experimented with a variety of historical photo-processes he chose to concentrate on gum bichromate. It offered a means to explore colour, but also provided a printmaking aesthetic most removed [...]
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{rowan lear} findings- “Lots of barbed wire entanglements” : tiny portrait of young woman
- Children playing cricket
- Squinting boy holding dog with lead
- Woman standing in kitchen, hiding behind wooden boardImage © Craigmillar Archives Trust
- Two girls and two boys, standing beside field of cowsImage © Craigmillar Archives Trust
- Woman in dress standing by building at end of driveway
- Two prints of portrait of boy with shirt and jacket
- Young girl with hat and doll sitting on chair in garden
- Landscape with tree nursery/orchard
- Man playing on ship deck under lifeboat with woman reading
- Two (twin?) boys in matching clothes standing in field
- Young man with hat and pipe standing against corrugated metal wall
- Island from sea
- Man with hat on donkey
- People standing in archway
- Man, woman and two boys paddling in water
- Two men on side street with steps
- Two women standing with twin boys and carrying girl
- Man and three women sitting on grass under trees
- Village, trees and valley
- {writings}
- Shilpa Gupta: Someone Else 22 April 2012
- TANT 4 March 2012
- Let us tell the stories of the dead 21 January 2012
- This is a photograph 10 October 2011
- My brother’s photograph 22 April 2010
- Not my mother’s album 2 February 2010
