Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Digital Imaging and Beyond Cont. and New Photography_Post Appropriating Artists


March 28, 2016

Visit “On or About Rockwell Kent” @ Rockwell Gallery

Aziz & Cucher
o   Dystopia
Attacking the pure way of how to work with numbers, & Shoot their own images
Look for any content on them. – Artist Talks, Etc.
Photojournalists
Been collaborating  since late 80’s (sculpture now) – first to use photoshop in context of fine art
Talking about new technology in our lives, it dictates us politically, socially, and can use the tech to transform ourselves from known to unknown.
Gradual loss of identity. Via technology
Very negative viewpoint
Well disseminated in media (fine art, NYTimes, etc.) about tech
o   Interiors
Living skin into 3-d architecture space.
Transformation that occurs when looking at a photograph. A photograph is a translation of that thing.
Image context comes from the illusion of reality that photography gives us.
Very detailed skin, grafted onto in-human surface.
Inseperable relationship between humans and technology and how it creates an illusion of human kind.
            Creating their own decisive moment
Mathieu Bernard-Reymond
o   Constructed photographer who uses multiple shots, to appear documentary.
One frame with multiple iterations of the same person.
Time representation, is skewed. Where all of these people here together? How much time is passing in this one photo? 1 hour? A whole day?
Making a photo as a director.
Very Theatrical and performance based.
Subjects might not know they are being photographed
New photographic surface that asks how much do we have to show to count as a document.
90s-now
Beate Gutschow compare to my artists
o   Looks like 17th & 18th Century Landscape Photographs
Totally constructed landscapes.
Most ideal landscape
Slight imperfections, because other ways it looks to good to be true
Criticizing how typical landscapes look in our memory (postcards, Ansel adams, etc.) And therefore all photography
o   B&w series
Constructed city landscapes
Just seem slightly off.
Doesn’t list locations, of compilation
What makes a good Landscape?
Nancy Davenport
o   Looks like Terrorist Act
Making them be part of modern apartment facades.
We immediately look at them as events. (see all the signs of typical news images like this)
Creating tension within the image
Post – Photo Journalism Psychalogical Photography
Joan Foncuberta
o   Landscapes Without Memory
Uses software “Teragon” to translates maps into virtual image
Does this with famous art and photography – scientific software to see virtual image
Re-enforcing image science > truth
Mixing how we think about science & using the illusion of photography
**testing the truth of the photographic surface by creating fictitious photographs. (everyone from today)
calls them post landscapes.
“technologically-defined contemporary hallucinations”
When it’s applied digitally it becomes acceptable
Richard Galpin
o   Works with his photographs Prints them out and then cuts them out.
Scores the emulsion off of it.
Subtracts information to reveal another reality
Creating one of a kind works.
About construction and deconstruction
Rudd Van Empel
o   Fairytales of black children
So perfect it seems off
Satirizing children’s world …. Trailed off, came back * using black children to satirize the perfect world that white children are usually in. New standard where black children are in the storybooks.
They look like creatures
Very meticulously composed
Didn’t talk about the white kid photos
Maggie Taylor
o   Based on 19th century tin-types/daguerreotypes
-scratches and color variations
scans and digitally manipulates real tintypes
very painterly quality
blurring genres between painting and photography
uses taxidermy, and scans with 3-d scanner.
-accentuates the fairytale quality
Maki Kawakita
o   Japanese artist living in NY – does High Fashion
Uses digital photo technology, developed instantly recognizable work.
Hevily influenced by Japanese pop culture & young peoples minds in 90’s pop culture
Traditional Japanese opera (Kabuki) as poses
Strong influence for Min *umm yeah
Cao Fei
o   Digital manipulated photo who reflects where she’s from
Chinese culture – rapid industrialization and urbanization
Impermanence in 20th century China
West meets east
Worker practicing tai chi in the factory

VIDEO – What is Conceptual Photography (Part 3)

World Press Awards – Afghanistan compared to Korea very similar(Soldiers at War)
How much do we need to see to act as a mark of that event?

Embedded in War – Rules of photography – no artifacts of conflict.
Deleted the photos at the end of each day.
The inverse of conceptual photography
Exposed photo paper roll instead of taking photograph
-What do you expect to see?
Were allowed to go because they said they were photojournalists not artists
Questioning photojournalists role in censorship.


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