2610: Interventions in the landscape

Posted on March 4, 2020 by Anna Cox

ANSEL ADAMS

Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941

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

Artist website

Just Because 060

Zero One Magazine

ANDY GOLDSWORTHY
Description on The Art Story | Rivers and Tides

Andy Goldsworthy talking about The Stone Sea

FUJIKO NAKAYA

What are Fujiko Nakaya’s fog sculptures all about?

SALLY MANN

Scared Tree, from Southern Landscapes
Art 21 Episode about PLACE | Specifically the Sally Mann episode

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

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 on the importance of LIGHT | Art 21 segment.

Vija Celmins | Art 21 segment

Trevor Paglen | Art 21 segment

Andrea Zittel | Art 21 segment

SITE SPECIFIC PLAYLIST : excellent stuff–all different artists and disciplines.

CHRISTINA SEELY

From, Lux.

JOHN RAFMAN

Nine Eyes of Google Street View

BILL OWENS

Suburbia |

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

AMY STEIN | Domesticated | npr slide show |

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

BRADLEY PETERS

More Bradley Peters

The Helsinki School

Riita Paivalainen | River Notes

Janne Lehtinen | Sacred Bird

Brief History of Photography: Camera Obscura and Vermeer

Posted on January 12, 2020 by Anna Cox

But first, this. A different way of thinking about why we take photographs

Abelardo Morrell: Youtube

Abelardo Morell’s website.

The connection between lens making, photography and Vermeer:
David Hockney’s, A Secret Knowledge. You can find the entire documentary on Youtube. Here is Hockney on the Charlie Rose show

The book.

Not everyone agrees with Hockney’s thesis. Some counter arguments, here and here. The later one is perhaps the most valid because its author is a scholar. Hockney’s project has inspired further exploration and scholarship.

Jerry Spagnoli: contemporary daguerreotypist. A video presentation. His website.

BBC program: The Genius of Photography

George Eastman House on Flickr

“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

Camera Obscura made from natural elements
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22630152-300-eye-of-the-beholder-life-through-the-camera-obscura/

1997_001_Camera-Obscura-Image-of-The-Grand-Tetons-in-Resort-001.jpg 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.

Contemporary artists using camera obscura:

JAMIE HOUSE

Trudi Lynn Smith

Abelardo Morell Tent Camera Obscura in Big Bend National Park

Photo I • Assignment 1: Pinhole Cameras and Photograms

Posted on January 12, 2020 by Anna Cox

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

WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT
| Photogenic Drawings | Arts Connected

PINHOLE IMAGES FROM NATURE!

ANNA ATKINS

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

ANNA ATKINS

Exhibition at Rijksmuseum [Amsterdam]

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Anna Atkins Refracted: Contemporary Works in Cyanotype,
New York Public Library, 2018

• Review of the show | Musée

• Another review in the New York Review of Books

ARTISTS responding to Anna Atkins

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• Eric William Carroll | Blue Line of Woods

Ellen Ziegler | Chemistry Is The Emotion of Matter

Meghann Riepenhoff | Littoral Drift

Susan Degeres | Danziger Gallery

Ulf Saupe | Res Navalis

• Kunie Sugiura | At MOMA | The Kitten Papers

• Erica Baum | Guggenheim | Aperture Magazine | Ubuweb | Frieze

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• Letha Wilson | web | Grimm gallery | Galerie Gaillard |

Katherine Hubbard | Bend the Rays More Sharply |

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• Penelope Umbrico | Screens, Scans, Suns | web

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 Bulge r (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

Corrupted Images for Emma

Posted on December 5, 2019 by Anna Cox

http://melaniewillhide.com/

https://slate.com/culture/2013/01/melanie-willhide-to-adrian-rodriguez-with-love-photos.html

Experimental Practices: Thinking About Gesture

Posted on October 25, 2019 by Anna Cox

EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE (the o.g. animated gif)

A collection of newly animated gifs from the stills | Great NPR story

Woman Dancing at Night, 1887

The Victorian Peeper | The Smithsonian | Muybridge at TATE Britain
Athletes Posing, 1879

JULIA FULLERTON BATTEN

Dressing Gown, Julia Fullerton Batten

Interview | Her body of work, In Between |

FRANCESCA WOODMAN | TATE Modern | New York Review of Books

Francesca Woodman: House #3, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976

ELISE WINDSOR | Mise en abyme |

Ovoid Left, 2011

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

ANN HAMILTON!

Artist website | On Art 21 | Radio Interview ” Making and The Spaces We Share(On Being) | More videos about The Embodied Art of Ann Hamilton

FRANICS ALYS
Artist website | Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing |

GESTURAL INSPIRATION: DANCE!

Mark Morris Dance Group | website | VIDEO! | Photo gallery | You Tube
Martha Graham Dance
Dayton Contemporary Dance
Garth Fagan Dance
Savion Glover | Video
Sammy Davis Jr and Gregory Hines
And, there is never, ever, anything better than this or this

David Parsons Dance | CAUGHT

QUANTUM – Teaser from Cie Gilles Jobin on Vimeo.

Gilles Jobin was the 2012 artist-in-residence at the CERN* physics laboratory in Switzerland. He created an abstract dance piece inspired by concepts in particle physics. A brief description from this New York Times article.
“…dancers will begin with a subtle jiggling motion that evokes the vibration of subatomic particles, which could be seen as a sort of quantum twerk. Under crackling ambient music assembled from supercollider data by the composer Carla Scaletti, they begin to orbit and swarm, pulled by invisible forces like gravity and magnetism. The spectacle will be lit, somewhat ominously, by lamps that swing on motorized pendulums — a “lumino-kinetic sculpture” contributed by the German artist Julius von Bismarck. “You don’t have to know anything about physics, it’s not a demonstration or explanation of scientific concepts,” Mr. Jobin said. “Now that I know that everything is moving, that we are mostly made of emptiness, that our bodies are holding together with incredible forces, it feels different to move my body.”

Photo I • LIGHTING Assignment PORTRAIT vs PERSONA

Posted on October 24, 2019 by Anna Cox

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.”

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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.”

Photo I : Composition

Posted on October 10, 2019 by Anna Cox

Henri Cartier-Bresson • The Decisive Moment
Helpful and concise article about Cartier-Bresson

Joel Meyerowitz Talks about composition.

Helen Levitt | At MOMA | At Lawrence Mille r Gallery

Gary Winogrand | 10 Things Gary Winogrand Can Teach You About Street Photography | Profile in The Guardian

Richard Avedon | website | American Masters video series | Master Photographer series at Time-Life

Francesca Woodman | Tate-Modern | Guggenheim

Martin Parr | website

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General Inspiration | Research | Photography Museums (don’t forget to utilize this blog)

• Museum of Contemporary Photography

• Aperture Foundation-especially the weekly roundup of photography news on the blog

• The Lens Blog of the New York Times

• Behold: The Photography Blog at Slate.com

•   International Center of Photography | Online database  

• LightBox | The photo editors at Time Magazine

• Ryerson Image Centre | Collections

• St.Lucy

• Canadian Art

• Border Crossings

Experimental Practices: Conceptual Portraits

Posted on October 1, 2019 by Anna Cox

STASI SMELL JARS

Brief explanation
STASI Museum in Berlin

SELFIE CITY!
SELFIE CITY

FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES
Andrea Rosen |

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

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

ANA MENDIETA
Untitled (Silueta Series), circa 1978
Vintage colour photograph

At Alison Jacques Gallery

Untitled (Body Tracks), 197435mm-slide documentation of a performance with blood and cloth also documented as Super-8 color, silent film © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, courtesy Galerie Lelong, New York
Review/Essay in FRIEZE | Images |

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

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

ANDREA ZITTEL
Website | L.A. Weekly | In Conversation, Systems for Living

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

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

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

Allanah Volkes | artist website

Other artists to consider:

Annette Messager
Cindy Sherman
Yoon Sung Min (Dwelling)
Micah Lexier
Germaine Koh
Tom Friedman

Douglas Gordon
Bruce Nauman
Sylvie Cotton – The Theory of Sylvie
Hadley and Maxwell
Pepon Osorio
Kelly Mark
Gabriel Orozco
John Sasaki – Life line video
Doug Jarvis – The sound of a ball rolling around the inside of his head

Digital Nonsilver • Major Project #2

Posted on February 5, 2019 by Anna Cox

Paul Strand, Bowls, 1916 (from Google Images–this is why Google Images is simultaneously good and terrible)

ART 21! History Reimagined

MAJOR PROJECT #2 : Revisioning and Revisiting History

Rephotographic Survey Project | Mark Klett | New Topographic Movement

The Photographic Work of Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

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KRISTAN HORTON
Interview in Canadian Art | Dr. Strangelove Dr. Strangelove in the Morning News

AI WEI WEI

Ai Weiwei, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn (1995).

ART 21 (forward to about 35minutes to see the Ai Wei Wei segment)

Artists mentioned in the readings for Major Project #2
(listed totally out of order)

STEPHEN BERKMAN

MARK OSTERMAN also at Artists and Alchemists

JAYNE HINDS BIDAUT | website | at Joseph Bellows gallery

McDermott & McGough | website

DEBORAH LUSTER | One Big Self

JOHN COFFER | Tintypes

Mike Ware | Artist website | photo gallery and video at Pictorico

Mark Kessel | Artist website

Jesseca Ferguson | Museum of Memory

Bryon Brauchli | Artist website |

Moyra Davey | Copperhead Grid at the Metropolitan Museum of Art | at Murray Guy gallery

Center for Creative Photography | Spotlight on Platinum Palladium prints

James Welling | Artist Website | at David Zwirner gallery | Interview in Bomb magazine (artists in conversation series )

The Subversion of Images: Surrealism, Photography and Film | Article at E-flux |

Interventions | Text and Image and TV

Posted on January 30, 2019 by Anna Cox

Mark Morris Dance Group

The Hard Nut, a reinterpretation of The Nutcracker!
Part One | The Party Scene | New York Times article about a regular production of the Nutcracker (adorable children) versus The Hard Nut (drunken adults).

Mark Morris explaining The Hard Nut

Danger Mouse

The Grey Album: Wikipedia
Encore, from The Grey Album

Brian Burton (Danger Mouse) is quoted as saying:

A lot of people just assume I took some Beatles and, you know, threw some Jay-Z on top of it or mixed it up or looped it around, but it’s really a deconstruction. It’s not an easy thing to do. I was obsessed with the whole project, that’s all I was trying to do, see if I could do this. Once I got into it, I didn’t think about anything but finishing it. I stuck to those two because I thought it would be more challenging and more fun and more of a statement to what you could do with sample alone. It is an art form. It is music. You can do different things, it doesn’t have to be just what some people call stealing. It can be a lot more than that.^[2]

Nikki S. Lee

From the Creator’s Project

A critical response to her interventions

The Whiz!

An all Black cast (yay!!!) reinterprets of The Wizard of Oz (both the 1939 movie and the original 1900 children’s novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz). The Whiz starts in Harlem.
Staring Dianna Ross, Michael Jackson and Nipsy Russell

The Original Trailer

Christian Bök

At MIT

The poet reading Eunoia

Barbara Kruger

On Art 21, Part of the Discourse

At The Broad Museum (Los Angeles)

David Levinthal

Hitler Moves East | Bad Barbie

Hells Belles!

Thunderstruck | Thunderstruck

I can’t believe I’m listing this

1962: Sabrina The Teenage Witch appears in Archie’s Madhouse #22

1996-2003: Live action series with Melissa John Hart as Sabrina, lives with 500 year old aunts/witches (Hilda and Zelda) in a suburb of Boston.

2004: Manga version of Sabrina

2009: 4 issue spin-off mini-series about Salem the cat who was actually a young boy before he became a cat

2017: Riverdale TV series

2018: The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina The Teenage Witch

Sherrie Levine

At Guggenheim | After Walker Evans (Metropolitan Museum, NY) | Mayhem at Whitney | At David Zwirner

HELLSONGS

Jump | Jump

Kara Walker

On Art 21 |A Subtlety, Domino Sugar Refinery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
(A project of Creative Time.)

David Carson

Interviews with David Carson in Magenta | David Carson Design |

TED TALK:

https://embed.ted.com/talks/lang/en/david_carson_on_design

Kristan Horton

Dr. Strangelove, Dr. Strangelove | In Reframing Photography | Artist’s website

Rachel Whiteread

At TATE Modern |

Guerilla Girls

Website |

Ann Hamilton

Tropos | Indigo Blue

Public Art Interventions

Werner Reiterer, Street Chandelier
Itay Ohaly, Elevated Bench
Carmichael Collective, Urban Plant Tags

Yasumasa Morimura

At Saatchi Gallery | Luhring Augustine |

Christian Marclay

The Clock | Article in The Guardian | The artist explains the work | The TATE modern explains the work | A snippet of the work, Just After 3pm