Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Artists Making Photographs
This looks like a must-see exhibit at the Whitney. Text from the website is copied below.
Artists Making Photographs: Chamberlain, Rauschenberg, Ruscha, Samaras, Warhol
On view at the Whitney through Spring 2009
Writing about the ascension of photography as a legitimate art medium, Andy Grundberg offered three simplified narratives: "the history of photographers making art, the history of artists making photographs and the history of hybridity in contemporary art." This Gilman Gallery installation focuses on the category of artists making photographs and features works from the Whitney’s collection made between the 1930s and the 1960s. Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and Ed Ruscha are three of the artists whose photographs are displayed alongside examples of their work in other mediums.
Significant support for the Whitney's photography exhibitions is provided by The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Inc.
Artists Making Photographs: Chamberlain, Rauschenberg, Ruscha, Samaras, Warhol
On view at the Whitney through Spring 2009Writing about the ascension of photography as a legitimate art medium, Andy Grundberg offered three simplified narratives: "the history of photographers making art, the history of artists making photographs and the history of hybridity in contemporary art." This Gilman Gallery installation focuses on the category of artists making photographs and features works from the Whitney’s collection made between the 1930s and the 1960s. Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and Ed Ruscha are three of the artists whose photographs are displayed alongside examples of their work in other mediums.
Significant support for the Whitney's photography exhibitions is provided by The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Inc.
Monday, March 9, 2009
100 Special Moments
Jason Salavon superimposes groups of photographs (kids with santa, wedding photographs, Playboy centerfolds, yearbook headshots, real-estate ads, internet porn) to derive blurred "averages" that trace conventions of photographic portraiture.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
The Women Project
The Women Project by J.R.
This French photographer, who is hiding his full name in case of prosecution, is taking portraits of women in various poverty-stricken and war-torn parts of the world (parts of Africa and Brazil so far, with Cambodia, India and Laos on the way). While the large scale photos are going on exhibition in Europe, the more interesting thing is that he is also pasting huge copies of them around the communities of the models, including some that are meant to be seen by satellite. Apparently the photos are even printed on water resistant materials and help stop erosion as well.
The Website
Friday, March 6, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Thomas Demand
Click HERE to go to Demand's website. He is known for creating empty 'sets' that look like real places.
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