April 4, 2016
Post Appropriating
Artists
Appropriating the idea of appropriation. They appropriate
the definition of appropriation. Collect appropriated images, junk photographs,
then kidnap why they exist in this realm in vernacular images, called snapshots,
wedding photos, commercial photography, etc. They incorporate their own style
to it and make them their own.
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Appropriation Artists.
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Elad Lassry
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He is the founder of this new appropriation
artists.
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Stock photos and appropriation of famous life
cover. Uses occasional blur like in the eyes. Defies the logic of a portrait.
Backgrounds match the color of the frame. Why is this guy naked? Is this
wonderful, not really. Why is the corner missing? Is this an actual photograph
or is it something you find incomplete and create a sculpture out of it?
Challenge the notion of how we categorize a photograph and the history, what
happens when we slightly change it into something else, trick the eye. Creating
a dialog of the ghost that remains after taking a picture for a reason, the
haunting of what it is and was after it is taken. How it gets in peoples
minds.
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acknowledges when a photograph is removed from
its context it can create a completely new narrative, what kink of story can
you actually tell? How to define photographic surface.
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The frame becomes the foreground or the
background. How do we understand this virtual and actual space
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Feminine and masculine. Uses objects and
backgrounds, to see how the elements effect our perception of the photographs.
This reminds me of Min’s work.
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Roe Ethridge
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Started as a commercial photographer
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Uses homemade images and makes them kitsch.
Something is actually wrong this the images.
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Plate is pixilated and he skews the proportions
and placement to make it wrong. Uses technique that is commercial but with a
wry perspective. Rotting fruit. It makes you question all of what it is. He
mixes low art with high art.
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Odd and not 100 percent right. Color is
distracting, model is classic and contemporary with saran wrap on her legs.
Difficult to come up with a story about the character.
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Challenging nature of photography and can be
mixed up and reconnected to create new stories.
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Can we make new stories with old images? This is
what they are doing.
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Alex Prager
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From Los Angeles
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Looks like a movies still, 50s and 60s
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Colorful with striking imagery. Recreating
images of women by using history of how women were portrayed in movies and
posters of the time.
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Looks very documentary, in its elements, but it
is very falsified and you can see this, very staged. Accumulation of many movie
stills that show women.
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Post photographers.
New
movement-photography about photography
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Man Ray (1920s-1930s)
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Photograms, all of these artists
re-contextualize the concepts of photography when the general nature of
photography is always in flux, like Man Ray.
Looks like collages or montages
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Sara Vanderveek- Collage, Montage, Appropriation
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Reflects the culture that anyone can be a
photographer. She uses main source. Places objects in a space and re
photographs them.
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Push boundaries of photography, bringing it into
the realm of sculpture and other mediums other than just photography. She makes
us question the space of the photograph.
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Penelope Umbrico
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Collects search images and then puts them
together in an installation form.
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Talks about this whole culture of sharing
photographs and how we can create things from this. This is an installation of
suns.
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How we create our identity in the see of photographic
images.
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Re-photographs famous photos as well, like with
her mountains, sun, people, sunset and how similar they look and generalize
them in generic searches.
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Like Jason Salavon but he does layers she does
space. How we understand our self and how we all interpret society.
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Walead Beshty
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Collage, contemporary photography.
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Comments on materiality of photograph, he wants
nothing recognizable. He is abstract formalism artist. Rolls and exposes
strands of light with a filter, whole process is performance based. Executed by
the change of spontaneity. Challenging the notion of photograph have to
represent something. Not using a photographic device.
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Meticulous in his folding of light sensitive
paper and blocking of light, like a performance.
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Research what his intentions are. And if it is
possible, is it possible to create a new photographic process.
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Installation artist as well.
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Eileen Quinlan
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Mirror effect, with plexiglass mirror, starts to
distort the abrstactions of reality, abstract artist.
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What is a photograph these days?
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Wade Guyton
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Is a painter, abstract images of fires
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Amanda Ross Ho
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Avid collector, mixes and matches images.
Combination of found artist, anything with images in it, she collects them and
regroups them.
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Look at the groupings as odd and interesting,
but as one piece? Tools and photos used to educate people
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Can these things exist together as an art form?
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Changes the way that we view images naturally,
her shows never look like a gallery space, but all are polished not polished
sculptural spaces.
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Michele Abeles
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Appropriation. The only thing that is real is
her model, generally a male model because females create baggage in the
imagery.
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Generic, bland, close up, you dissect all the
part and then the whole.
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Manipulates and collages images so the model is
up agains a flat space and the proportions make for confusion. Color gels are
used a lot. Construction is not digital.
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Old composition of her reoccurs in a new
photographic space.
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Finish up Walead Beshtry Movie
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