tagged w/ Harry Callahan
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“American Dreams” is a wonderful exhibition that provides a survey of the great American photographers of the 20th century. The exhibition consists of of photographs from arguably the world’s most important photographic museum, George Eastman House, and is currently being shown at Australia’s Bendigo Art Gallery.
The works highlight the pioneering role these American artists have had on the world stage in developing and shaping photography, and the impact these widely published images have had on the greater society. Their far-reaching images helped shape American culture, and had an impact on the fundamental role photography has in communications today. Even more than this, we can see through these artists the burgeoning love of photography that engaged a nation.
These images show us not only the development of photography, but also provide some of the most powerful social documentary photography of the last century. We see extraordinary moments captured in the lives of a wide range of Americans, works that distil the dramatic transformation that affected people during the 20th century: the affluence, degradation, loss, hope and change, both personally and throughout society.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution vintage photographs, a photo-gallery and a documentary short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/american-dreams-iconic-images-of-20th-century-life/“American Dreams” is a wonderful exhibition that provides a survey of the... more
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An American original and a self-taught photographer, Harry Callahan (1912-1999) was one of the first to do strictly art photography. Callahan became a major figure in American photography by means of his genius and work ethic. His photography was his life in many ways, and he told his life through his photography.
Callahan’s only education in photography consisted of attending lectures while a member of the Detroit Photo Guild. He experienced an exhibit of the photographs of Ansel Adams as an inspiration, and was similarly moved by the work of Alfred Stieglitz. Within eight years he’d become one of America’s most eloquent poets of the camera. Through the invitation of Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, Callahan become part of the teaching staff of Chicago’s Institute of Design, a continuation of the Bauhaus school of thinking about art that blended in the work of artisans with the fine arts.
From the late 1940s to early 1960s, his central model and muse was his wife Eleanor Callahan, and after 1950, his daughter Barbara. By the 1970s he had begun to focus on color photography, and a number of those works are represented in this collection.
This piece includes a number of vintage color photographs, a slide show and a documentary short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/harry-callahan-a-retrospective-collection-of-later-color-photography/An American original and a self-taught photographer, Harry Callahan (1912-1999) was... more
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“Exposed” is a photographic collection presently on exhibition at London’s Tate Modern Gallery, which offers a fascinating look at pictures made on the sly, without the explicit permission of the people depicted. With photographs from the late nineteenth century to present day, the pictures present a shocking, illuminating and sometimes witty perspective on iconic and taboo subjects. “Exposed” presents 250 works by celebrated artists and photographers, including Weegee, Guy Bourdin, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Philip Lorca DiCorcia, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Nan Goldin, Harry Callahan, Lee Miller, Helmut Newton and Man Ray.
The United Kingdom is now the most surveyed country in the world, fostering an obsession with voyeurism, privacy laws, freedom of media, and surveillance, images captured and relayed on camera phones, YouTube or reality TV. Much of “Exposed” focuses on surveillance, and the issues raised are particularly relevant in the current climate, with debates raging around the rights and desires of individuals, terrorism and the increasing availability and use of surveillance. “Exposed” confronts these issues and their implications head-on.
This piece include a number of high-resolution photographs from the exhibition, a slide show and two documentary short films.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/exposed-voyeurism-surveillance-and-the-camera/“Exposed” is a photographic collection presently on exhibition at... more
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“Beyond Color” is a stunning collection of vintage color photographs that represents a re-examination of a pivotal period in photography’s short history (1950-1970), when the artistic relevance of color in fine art photography had not yet been determined. Over the past forty years, work in color created by artists during this formative period has received little attention. “Beyond Color” brings together for the first time works by many of the first generation practitioners of color photography, and attempts to reclaim this moment of photographic history that only today has begun to receive critical attention.
This piece presents a number of vintage color photographs, a remarkable slide show and a documentary short film about the collection.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/beyond-color-early-works-in-american-color-photography-1950-1970/“Beyond Color” is a stunning collection of vintage color photographs that... more
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“Visions of Auto-Magic” is a captivating collection of photographs of automobiles through the years, images that often transform the ordinary of urban daily life into intense images that sizzle and delight the eye. The photographs range from very early street pictures, to more recent highly abstract views. The master photographers represented in this photo-essay include: Walker Evans, Alfred Steiglitz, Ray K. Metzker, Dennis Stock and Harry Callahan.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution photographs, a slide show and a video.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/09/03/photos-of-the-day-visions-of-auto-magic-through-the-years/“Visions of Auto-Magic” is a captivating collection of photographs of... more
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