Florian Freier Work from Copy-Paste” – Recreating Andreas Gursky (Google Earth Remix) “As many young photographers, I always dreamt about flying around the world, visiting spectacular spots and places, just like Superstar Andreas Gursky does. So finally I decided to stop dreaming and just do It …in Google Earth.” – text via Flachware
Archives for posts tagged ‘photography’
Sean Snyder
Friday, 14 January 2011
Sean Snyder Work from his oeuvre. “The various works consist of a series of experiments made by the artist in the process of digitizing and destroying his archive, in which the materials themselves become the subject of investigation. Included is documentation of the physical storage matter such as printed matter, scratched CDs and DVDs, celluloid, […]
Pekka Niittyvirta
Thursday, 13 January 2011
Pekka Nittyvirta Work from Corrupted (and one from Trinity). “I’m interested in the idea of visual “noise” or disruption in your images and was wondering if you could talk a little bit about the role that this noise plays when making an image. I think that it is important to shed first some light over […]
Bas Princen
Sunday, 9 January 2011
Bas Princen Work from Refuge. “Bas Princen brings together five cities from a region which over the past fifty years has experienced dramatic development. The five cities portrayed are Istanbul, Beirut, Amman, Cairo and Dubai. The images of Princen constitute architectural research and visual poetry at the same time. This survey has been commissioned and […]
Tatiana Grigorenko
Saturday, 8 January 2011
Tatiana Grigorenko Work from The Disappeared. “an anti-portrait of a missing protagonist. inspired by soviet-era images that were manipulated to make individuals ‘disappear’ from history. the project is an exploration of memory, presence, invisibility and historical revision. blowing up my family’s snapshots to the point that their grain structure started to fall apart, i meticulously removed […]
Carlee Fernandez
Thursday, 6 January 2011
Carlee Fernandez Work from Man. “…In her newest work entitled “Man,” Fernandez probes the power, aggressiveness, and macho beauty of the men who have been influential in her life and her art-making through contemporary self-portraiture. By juxtaposing her body next to or entwined with images of masculinity through photographs, video, and sculpture, the work is […]
Steven Brahms
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
Steven Brahms Work from The Survival Project. “Over the past year and a half I have been engaged in an investigation of contemporary man’s relationship with nature and himself, and how acts of imagination are tools for remembering our forgotten knowledge.” – Steven Brahms “Each image is a demonstration, an investigation, an experiment of skills and […]
Caroline Heider
Tuesday, 4 January 2011
Caroline Heider Work from her oeuvre. Caroline Heider bases her work on existing pictures, on a public world of images which is conveyed in magazines, for example. Media-related images are a reality of their own and have their reflexive effect on the world. The artist’s interests focus on this process and the social and cultural […]
Iman Issa
Saturday, 25 December 2010
Iman Issa Work from Triptychs (and others). “Issa’s Triptych series (#1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6) from 2009, is a group of six beautiful wall installations comprised of photography, video objects and texts. They are images of places she collected in New York and restaged; settings that occurred through a personal psychological process in order to reveal personal associations. […]
Erik Dalzen
Tuesday, 14 December 2010
Erik Dalzen Work from Some Things. Dalzen has work from Some Things in a show at Guild Gallery II in NYC opening Thursday (6:00 – 7:30 @ 119 9th Avenue / NYC). “Photography often features the usage of an illusionary background creating a setting devoid of planar divisions manifest by a seamless background or skype. Comparable […]