Zach Nader Work from Counterweight. “I investigate presentation and representation of self, others and viewpoint. My questions include: Where and how is experience constructed? What are the possibilities of history, truth and fiction in photographic images? Can the point in which meaning adheres to representations be shifted? And what is their role in constructing personal […]
Archives for posts tagged ‘memory’
Aaron Gustafson
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Aaron Gustafson Work from Bonus Baby “I cut out my likeness from each photo as a way of reimagining the moments and to reconcile unremembered or painful past moments with my present self…The photographs are open-ended, ambiguous, and dishonest.” – Aaron Gustafson Related posts: Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys Adam Cruces Brett Ginsburg Anna-Sophie […]
Sara Angelucci
Thursday, 31 December 2009
Sara Angelucci Work from Regular 8. “For the past ten years, my practice has encompassed photography and video, examining vernacular archival materials, including snapshots and home movies. Investigating the relationship between the still and moving image, my work has considered the limits of indexical media to translate lived experience, underlining the fragmented, ephemeral nature of […]
Jason Salavon
Saturday, 5 September 2009
Jason Salavon Work from 100 Special Moments. “Jason Salavon selects as source material groups of images from popular culture—real-estate listing photographs, Playboy centerfolds, high-school yearbook portraits—and blends them into generalized images characteristic of types existing in everyday life. … Salavon chose to blend pictures of not-so-average women in his series Every Playboy Centerfold. By fusing […]
Jamie Lund
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
Jamie Lund Works from the series Memory and My Loss in Your Gain. I have no idea how I came across this work, but I feel that it addresses the snapshot aesthetic that is so painfully prevalent in a conceptually divergent way. Both sets of work shown here involve family snapshots / memories gilded or […]
Jill Magid
Monday, 16 February 2009
In Jill Magid’s “One Cycle of Memory in the City of L“, the artist contacts and becomes friends with the public surveillance camera (CCTV) operators for the city of Liverpool. They guide her over cell phone as she moves through the city, readily visible by the distinctive red trench coat that she wears. At one […]
Jane Tam
Saturday, 14 February 2009
Jane Tam Work from the series Can I Come Home With You and To the fun House. Thanks to The Exposure Project (which is crazy awesome by the way) for bringing her work to my attention. Related posts: Krista Wortendyke Barry W. Hughes Josh Poehlein Mitch Robertson
Millee Tibbs
Sunday, 8 February 2009
Millee Tibbs Work from Self Portraits, and This is a Picture of Me. More work here as well. Related posts: Nora Herting Miles Collyer William Lamson Jane Tam