https://slate.com/culture/2013/01/melanie-willhide-to-adrian-rodriguez-with-love-photos.html
Corrupted Images for Emma
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Experimental Practices: Thinking About Gesture
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
TINO SEHGAL
At The Guggenheim | Interview in The New Yorker | Video! at Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam | Filling a city with cavorting couples | General Guardian link for all things Tino Sehgal | On Performativity at the Walker Art Centre
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.”
2610: Interventions in the landscape
ANSEL ADAMS
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941
JOHN PFAHL
Moonrise Over Pie Pan, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, 1977
Artist website
ANDY GOLDSWORTHY
Description on The Art Story | Rivers and Tides
Andy Goldsworthy talking about The Stone Sea
FUJIKO NAKAYA
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
Shirin Neshat | At the Guggenheim | At the Hirshorn | Gladstone gallery | TED talk |
AMY STEIN | Domesticated | npr slide show |
BRADLEY PETERS
Riita Paivalainen | River Notes
Janne Lehtinen | Sacred Bird
Photo I • LIGHTING Assignment PORTRAIT vs 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.”
Photo I : Composition
Henri Cartier-Bresson • The Decisive Moment
Helpful and concise article about Cartier-Bresson
Joel Meyerowitz Talks about composition.
Helen Levitt | At MOMA | At Lawrence Miller 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
Experimental Practices: Conceptual Portraits
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 |
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
NANCY BURSON
| Article | Early Composites | Museum of Contemporary Photography | Seeing and Believing, New York University | Early Work, Clamp Art (decently sized images)
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
Photo I • Assignment 1: Pinhole Cameras and Photograms
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]
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
• 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
• Letha Wilson | web | Grimm gallery | Galerie Gaillard |
Maria Martinez-Canas | FGT photogram | Traces of Nature | Smithsonian Video |Julie Saul Gallery |
Katherine Hubbard | Bend the Rays More Sharply |
• Penelope Umbrico | Screens, Scans, Suns | web
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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
Brief History of Photography: Camera Obscura and Vermeer
But first, this. A different way of thinking about why we take photographs
Abelardo Morrell: The Making of a Camera Obscura
Abelardo Morell’s website.
The connection between lens making, photography and Vermeer:
David Hockney’s, A Secret Knowledge, (part 1), (part 2), (part 3).
The book. The DVD. An article about 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 | TIFF summary
Camera Obscura made from natural elements
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22630152-300-eye-of-the-beholder-life-through-the-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.
Contemporary artists using camera obscura:
Abelardo Morell Tent Camera Obscura in Big Bend National Park
Digital Nonsilver • Major Project #2
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
https://www.moma.org/interactives/objectphoto/assets/essays/Szymanowicz.pdf
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)
MARK OSTERMAN also at Artists and Alchemists
LIZ DESCHENES | MIGUEL ABREU GALLERY | article in Bomb magazine | Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston | Brief review in E-Flux |
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
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!
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
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
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
