RETHINKING what is a PORTRAIT? Experiment #2 (part 2)

Student work!

Kids With Santa, from the project, “100 Special Moments”

JASON SALAVON
Portraits | Playboy | 100 Special Moments | Short statement

OLAFUR ELIASSON

Ice Watch Paris | The Weather Project at TATE MODERN | Studio Olafur Eliasson

NADAV ASSOR | Lessons On Leaving The Body | Julie M gallery

 

Robert Burley

From the exhibit: The Disappearance of Darkeness.
An entire blog about Photography in a Post-Photographic Age

IAN WILLMS

Why We Walk (above photo) |

Other projects:
Between Liberties (A project about immigration) |
Look at all of his “longterm projects” they are all poignant and beautifully shot.

NANCY BURSON
| THE HUMAN RACE MACHINE | Early Composites | Early Work, Clamp Art (decently sized images)

 

THOMAS DEMAND
Matthew Marks gallery | MOMA
His Animations at DHC/ART in Montreal.

FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES
Andrea Rosen |

SOPHIE CALLE
The Hotel Series | Thesis on Hotel Series | At the TATE (full screen images)

GILLIAN WEARING
Whitechapel Gallery (London) | Review in The Guardian

ANA MENDIETA
Review/Essay in FRIEZE | Images |

DAMIEN HIRST
Medicine Cabinets

JANINE ANTONI
Lick and Lather  | Luhring Augustine (gallery) | Art 21 video

LORNA SIMPSON

FRANCIS PICABIA
Machine Drawings

KIKI SMITH
Text at Guggenheim | Game Time

JON RAFMAN
Nine Eyes of Google Street View | Essay

Other artists to consider: Catherine Opie, Annette Messager, Chris Ironside, Cindy Sherman, Yoon Sung Min (Dwelling)

NIKI S. LEE
Museum of Contemporary Photography | The Creator’s Project, overview


Museum of Contemporary Photography | The Creator’s Project, overview

 

 

 

 

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Assignment 2: Environmental Portraits

These images are from the Behold :The Photog blog at SLATE magazine. The first two images are portraits by Maja Daniels who was commissioned by New York magazine to photograph french identical twins, Monette and Mady. The project won the Contour by Getty Images Portrait Prize.
More images + Article

RINEKE DIJKSTRA
Rineke Dijkstra | Tate Modern | Cruel and Tender | Guggenheim | MORE Guggenheim

ALEC SOTH
| A conversation with Alec Soth

AUGUST SANDER
MOMA | Amber Online | August Sander. com

LAUREN GREENFIELD
Girl Culture | THIN

SHIZUKA YOKOMIZO
Museum of Contemporary Photography | Google
I’ve uploaded a .pdf on the courselink site.

HELEN VAN MEENE
A Conversation

TIMOTHY ARCHIBALD
A conversation | portraits

ARNOLD NEWMAN
Arnold Newman website |  PDN gallery

JOEL STERNFELD

 

LARRY SULTAN | Pictures From Home

TINA BARNEY (an interview in Bomb Magazine )

Mary Ellen Mark | Streetwise

BILL OWENS | Suburbia

STUDENT WORK | Andy Huckle

Camera Obscura!

More Abelardo Morell | Above image is The Grand Tetons in the Resort Room, 1997

 

Short video detailing the Camera Obscura in San Francisco.

The Dyer Star Chamber at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee)

Great source (terrible design) all about camera obscura!

Site about custom camera obscura design.

Photo I : Pinhole Cameras and Photograms

GENERAL HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAMS
From Man Ray to Thomas Ruff—article
Good description with images

WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT
| Photogenic Drawings | Arts Connected

ANNA ATKINS

Festuca grasses from ‘British and Foreign Flowering Plants and Ferns’, c.1854
Brief Bio | The Getty | University of Texas, Austin

 

MAN RAY-Rayograms

Metropolitan Museum of Art
At Aqua Velvet
General description of photography and surrealism

 

 

LASZLO MOHOLY NAGY
At MOMA | At the Getty Musuem

 

*CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS

ADAM FUSS

• At Cheim & Reid
• At Fraenkel Gallery
• At Artists and Alchemists
• Good article with terrible formatting
• Interview in BOMB magazine.

 

ALISON ROSSITER

• Represented by Stephen Bulger (Toronto)
• Yossi Milo (NY)
• Canadian Art profile
• Article in Le Rencontres d’Arles
• Video at Gallery Intell

 

GARY FABIAN MILLER

• Artist Website
• Video and images at Victoria and Albert Museum
• At Ingleby Gallery

SHADOW CATCHERS at The Victoria and Albert Museum
• Camera-less photo techniques at Victoria and Albert Museum
• A History of Camera-less Photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
• A listing of all of the artists plus video interviews in the Camera-less Photography exhibit.

 

SUSAN DERGES

• Susan Derges
• Prix Pictet
• Paul Kasmin Gallery
• Video, commissioned by the Victoria and Albert Museum.
• At Oxford University
• At Danziger Gallery

 

ABELARDO MORELL

Flashlight and Salt, photogram on 8×10 film
More of his photograms

 

 

THOMAS RUFF

Photograms for the new age (interview in Aperture magazine)
See more work at David Zwirner gallery

 

 

Experiment #1 Implications of Colour

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The Inherent Racism of A Kodak Shirley

Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, To Photograph the Details of A Dark Horse In Low Light, 2013 [Goodman Gallery]

Is this nonsense still a problem?

Richard Mosse | Infra |Artist Statement video | Understanding the exhibit |
More info | About Mosse and his new exhibit “Incoming” in The British Journal of Photography

Mosse in Time magazine

 

Experiment #1 : Podcast links

JUST CHECKING: CAN YOU SEE COLOUR?

You should be able to see a brown boat in the above image. If you can’t, you might have colour blindness.

 

PODCAST LINKS • REQUIRED LISTENING!

1. RADIOLAB
Listen to THIS episode of RADIOLAB. Click the LISTEN link at the top and you’ll hear the entire podcast. It is about one hour and eight minutes, but it’s broken into segments. Please listen to the ENTIRE podcast. It’s great!

After you listen to Radiolab podcast, watch this. Behold! Watch this Mantis Shrimp!

WHAT COLOUR IS THE SKY?
After listening to the RadioLab podcast, you might be thinking What colour is the sky?

2. THE FOSBURY FLOP!
CBC podcast, The Current | Mechanics of the Game Changers

Here is what high-jump looked like before Dick Fosbury. And here, is what the high-jump look like after Dick Fosbury. Further info about the Fosbury Flop technique.

 

 

 

Experiment #1 Understanding vision and color

 

TEST YOUR COLOUR SENSITIVITY (thanks Alison!)
Test from Pantone

THE SCIENCE OF COLOUR AND LIGHT
Optical illusions show how we see.

Color and Physics

Colour and light, explained by Bill Nye (the science guy).

Light Fantastic 4: Light, The Universe, and Everything.

A BBC video that explores, “the research on the strange relationship between light, the eye and mind, and the development of new technologies such as photography and film”

This is an interesting TED talk about Colour Theory.

 

FOUNDATIONS of VISION: COLOR
Fantastic resource via Stanford University

 

ALTERED PERCEPTION and VISION
Dr. George Stratton

Dr. George Stratton’s original article,
SOME PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENTS ON VISION WITHOUT INVERSION OF THE RETINAL IMAGE.

Summary and explanation of Stratton’s work, courtesy of the staff of San Francisco’s Museum of Science, Art, and Human Perception.

Newer article, based on Stratton’s research.

Great WIRED article about neuroplasticity, vision, and perception.

Video showing inverted vision experiments: Living in a Reversed World.

THE ILLUSION OF COLOUR CONSTANCY | Color Subjectivity | Living in the past
Video.
Is your red my red? No. It isn’t.

The neurological lag between seeing light and understanding/processing light.

What is video, anyway?

“It’s all to do with our cone cells, one of the two types of photoreceptors within our eye’s retina, which are responsible for color vision. We have three types of cones, which are sensitive to blue, green or red wavelengths of light. When we’re exposed to a lot of one color, that particular type of cone gets overstimulated and becomes “tired” and unresponsive. This leaves you temporarily with the use of only your other two types of cone, which show the opposing “complementary” color (i.e red versus green and blue versus yellow). After a few seconds, the cones “recharge” and you’re able to perceive that color again.” – IFLS

 

THE ILLUSION OF COLOUR CONSTANCY | Color Subjectivity | Living in the past
Video.
Is your red my red? No. It isn’t.

The neurological lag between seeing light and understanding/processing light.

What is video, anyway?

 

COLOUR AND LANGUAGE
This video explores the relationship between the development of language and the processing and understanding of colour.

 

 

 

 

Experiment #1 The History of Color Photography

George Eastman House’s photostream on Flickr. Excellent historic images.

Short video about the Autochrome process, from The ImageWorks in Rochester, NY.

Concise History of Color Photography with excellent images and text.

The George Eastman House: Notes on Photographs: An international forum for gathering information that enhances the communal understanding of the photographic print.

A short video about the history of color photography from the Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC)

History and manufacture of Lantern Slides.

The scandal and possible truth surrounding Levi Hill who claimed to have invented color photography.

 

THE FIRST DIGITAL CAMERA

(Image from the New York Times Magazine)

This is the first DIGITAL (filmless) camera. 1975!
Wonder why it took so long to be on the consumer market? Read this.

 

A list of links about the origins of the digital camera, as well as other connections between photography and technology.

PICTURES OF CATS! (before the Internet)

Just in case you think cats + social media is new, (mew?) it’s not.

Maker: S.L. Upham & Fowler
Title: Cat / opaque background
Date: ca. 1875
Medium: albumen print
Dimensions: Image: 9.5 x 5.5 cm Mount: 10.1 x 6.2 cm
This image is from the George Eastman House Flickr Feed.

 

MORE ABOUT THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
If you’re interested in more information about the History of Photography, check out this and this.

 

THE ORIGINS OF PHOTOGRAPHY–the CAMERA OBSCURA

In the above posts, you’ll find a brief history of the camera obscura, how many painters such as Vermeer used a camera obscura to aid in his painting, as well as contemporary artists who use the camera obscura.

If you’re interested in the connection between Vermeer and the camera obscura, this is a compelling documentary:

“Tim’s Vermeer” a documentary by Penn and Teller (yes, THAT Penn and Teller) about one man’s obsession with discovering Vermeer’s secrets. Hint: camera obscura! Trailer | NY Times article | TIFF summary

 

Dr. Edwin H. Land.
Photo copyright J.J.Scarpetti.
Image from: The Rowland Institute at Harvard

EDWIN LAND
Video about Edwin Land (the inventor of Polaroid) and his two color process. An article describing the relationship between Edwin Land’s experiments and James Clark Maxwell’s discoveries.

POLAROID NOW: The Impossible Project

CMYK
Short film, creative interpretation of cymk in everyday printing (cereal boxes, etc)

THE HISTORY OF COLOUR MODELS
To augment our class discussion about colour, learn about the history of the colour wheel.

History of Color Models
Color Models
Color: Standford University Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Jason Salavon, pushes boundaries between photography/computer science/video etc.  Here is his interpretation of the Colour Wheel.

 

 

2610: A Sense of Place

THINKING ABOUT A SENSE OF PLACE

William Henry Fox Talbot, Lacock Abbey. What is arguably the first and oldest positive from a paper negative.

Image of SATURN, (Saturn, people!) from the Cassini spacecraft.

ANSEL ADAMS

Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941

JOHN PFAHL
Moonrise Over Pie Pan, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, 1977

 

SALLY MANN

Scared Tree, from Southern Landscapes
Art 21 | Website: Battlefields |

OLAFUR ELIASSON
The Weather Project at TATE Modern | About the installation | Artist website-The Weather Project |

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO

Indian Ocean, Bali.

Seascapes

MARK KLETT

Timothy O’Sullivan (1872) + Mark Klett (1978)

Third View: The Rephotographic Survey Project
Good article, description of the project | More about Mark Klett
At Pictured Past Future Perfect

Robert Adams! | Art 21 segment.

Vija Celmins | Art 21 segment

Mark Dion | Art 21 segment

Trevor Paglen | Art 21 segment

Andrea Zittel | Art 21 segment

CHRISTINA SEELY

From, Lux.

LIMINALITY
The Joys of Commuting

Sebastião Salgado, Churchgate is the terminus station of the Western railroad line, built by the British; the railroad system covers much of India. The trains are notorious for being dangerously overcrowded, 1995 (2007.6.1)

JOHN RAFMAN

Nine Eyes of Google Street View

BILL OWENS

Suburbia |

VICTORIA SAMBUNARIS

Untitled (Tomato Pool), Yellowstone National Park, 2008.

Taxonomy of a landscape | Review and essay at Salon.com | At Albright Knox

Balint Alovits | website

 

 

And finally, a good use of social media:

Dronestagram

March 2nd 2014: A reported drone strike killed three in the village of Al-Shabwan, 5km from Marib, while travelling in or sleeping near their vehicle. #drone #drones #yemen (at Erq al-Shabwan, Marib Province)

Explanation of the project | Tumblr | Instagram

Andrew Wright | Artist website |

Scott McFarland | Artist website

Isabelle Hayeur | Artist website

Letha Wilson | Artist website

Shirin Neshat | At the Guggenheim | At the Hirshorn |  Gladstone gallery | TED talk |

AMY STEIN | Domesticated | npr slide show |

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/renee-c-byer-a-pulitzer-prize-winner-speaks-on-the-art-of-photojournalism

http://www.lsimpsonstudio.com/
(The new photo collage)

BRADLEY PETERS

More Bradley Peters

The Helsinki School

Riita Paivalainen | River Notes

 

Janne Lehtinen | Sacred Bird

Photo I • PORTRAIT • PERSONA

 

Werner Bischof | website | Magnum photography agency on Instagram | Magnum Photo Agency

 

Cindy Sherman

Profile in the Guardian | MOMA | Art 21

Annie Leibovitz

American Masters: Life Through A Lens. Bio | Image gallery | At Vanity Fair | Documentary

Yasumasa Morimura

Luhring Augustine | At Saatchi Gallery

Nikki S. Lee

Nikki S. Lee: The Seniors Project

Nikki S. Lee: The Hispanic Project

Video interview at The Creator’s Project | Leslie Tonkonow Gallery | Analysis of Punk Project

Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison

| Gaultier’s Dream | Architect’s Brother

 

 

Anna Gaskell

At the Guggenheim | Bio | Turns Gravity | Analysis of Gaskell’s use of light

 

Juul Kraijer

Book of photographs–see the book on Vimeo

Using Portraiture and Identity to Explore Queerness in South Africa | from Slate Magazine’s BEHOLD blog

Image :From Zanele Muholi’s series “Faces and Phases.”

 

 

 

 

Ellen

Endia Beal, who told me about her project in which she took white middle-aged women to a hair salon and gave them “black” hairstyles. She then took their photographs in the style of corporate headshots. Her work had a mix of humor and poignancy, a look at both race and gender; it quickly went viral.

“I wanted people that had a certain idea of what you’re supposed to look like in the workspace, because it would be a challenge for them to understand what I experienced in that space,” Beal said. “And to a degree, many young white women have shared that experience, but for older white women it’s an experience they haven’t necessarily had.”