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Tommy Ingberg is a passionate Swedish photographer working primarily in black and white and is fond of creating surrealistic montages, which he often creates after photographing in his studio. His artistic creativity strives for simple, scaled back compositions with few elements, where ev
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May Xiong is a a twenty-three year old photographer creating amazingly beautiful conceptual images that revolve around portrait photography. She takes inspiration from music, art and all kinds of abstract things, people, places that intrigue her. She states: “I think that I take little bit of everything that I enjoy and take snippets of it […]
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Rome-based artist Micaela Lattanzio’s project “Fragmenta” centres on the fragmentation of female identity.
Olivia Bee is celebrated for her dreamy, evocative portraits and landscapes rich with implied narratives of intimacy, freedom, and adventure. Bee show...
Robert Frank. New York City 1947 Lee Friedlander: Mannequin Lee Friedlander. New York City, 1966 One of the first Robert Frank’s photographs in the United States, captured the reflection on the street after a summer heavy rainfall near the Central Park. This photo is composed upside down to emphasize the building reflection on the puddle, while also showing a glimmer motion of activity on the street. Using a hand-held 35mm camera, Lee Friedlander photographs of mannequin have a weirdly odd composition that manipulates the reflection on the storefront windows with mannequin as the main object. The photographs are intended to reflect the notion of sex, fashion, and consumerism in the big city lifestyle. The last photograph is another work by Friedlander using shadow reflection as an important of his composition. The picture was taken in New York City in 1966 when he captured his own shadow on a woman’s back. I like how he uses things that are less “valuable” objects into the main piece on his photography composition.
One of the most famous of the contemporary art photographers is Andreas Gursky. Gursky was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1955. He makes large-scale colour photographs distinctive for their incisive and critical look at the effect of capitalism and globalisation on contemporary life. Gursky studied under Bernd and Hilla Becher (see previous blog post) at the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie in the early 1980s and first adopted a style and method closely following the Bechers’ systematic approach to photography, creating small black-and-white prints. In the early 1980s, however, he broke from this tradition, using colour film and spontaneous observation to make a series of images of people at leisure, such as hikers, swimmers and skiers, depicted as tiny protagonists in a vast landscape. Since the 1990s Gursky has concentrated on sites of commerce and tourism, making work that draws attention to today’s burgeoning high-tech industry and global markets. His imagery ranges from the vast, anonymous architecture of modern day hotel lobbies, apartment buildings and warehouses to stock exchanges and parliaments in places from as far a field as Shanghai, Brasília, Los Angeles and Hong Kong. Although his work adopts the scale and composition of historical landscape paintings, his photographs are often derived from inauspicious sources: a black and white photograph in a newspaper, for example, that is then researched at length before the final photograph is shot and often altered digitally before printing. Andreas Gursky has exhibited internationally, including Sydney Biennial (2000), 25th São Paolo Biennial (2002) and Shanghai Biennale (2002) and Venice Biennale of Architecture (2004). He has had numerous solo exhibitions, including Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (1998), Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (all 2001), Haus der Kunst, Munich (2007), Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2008) and Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2009). 1982 Desk Attendants, Spaeter, Duisburg 1993 Montparnasse 1994 Hong Kong Island 1994 Hong Kong Shanghai Bank 1995 Centre Georges Pompidou 1996 Prada 1998 Bundestag 2000 EM Arena II 2000 Shanghai 2001 Avenue of the Americas 2002 Copan 2003 PCF, Paris 2005 Bahrain I 2006 May Day V 2007 Kamiokande 2008 Untitled XVI 2009 Bibliotek 2009 Jumeirah Palm
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This exhibition presents street photography, portraits, and experimental work by émigré photographers Lotte Jacobi (1896-1990) and Lisette Model (1901-1983), created while they lived in Berlin, Paris, and New York from the 1930s to 1950s. Jacobi was an ambitious innovator, expanding from refined portraiture of cultural elites into experimental, abstract images during the 1940s and 1950s.
