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“Series of Portraits: A Century of Photographs” is an exhibtion of 20th century portrait photography, which is presently on display at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg. Portraiture is one of the traditional genres in art and was a driving force behind the invention of photography in the 19th century. Portrait photography continually redefines itself, between dissolution of the traditional concept of the subject in the masses, toward the pursuit of individuality and identity. The image of the human being is subject to constant change, which is also reflected in photography, sometimes with spectacular results.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution photographs and a photo-gallery.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/series-of-photographic-portraits-a-century-of-photographs/“Series of Portraits: A Century of Photographs” is an exhibtion of 20th... more
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“Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography” is an exhibition of photographs currently on view at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition presents a selection of outstanding photographs by women artists, charting the medium’s history from the dawn of the modern period to the present time. For much of photography’s 170-year history, women have expanded its roles by experimenting with every aspect of the medium. Including over two hundred works, this exhibition features celebrated masterworks and new acquisitions by such figures as Diane Arbus, Berenice Abbott, Claude Cahun, Imogen Cunningham, Rineke Dijkstra, Florence Henri, Roni Horn, Nan Goldin, Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, Lucia Moholy, Tina Modotti, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems, among many others.
This piece presents a number of high-resolution color and black-and-white photographs, and a photo-gallery.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/pictures-by-women-a-celebration-of-great-women-photographers/“Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography” is an exhibition of... more
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“Up Close” is a collection of photographs that features the exceptional talent of four photographers whose images capture people, places and events with candid intimacy. “Up Close” traces the significant legacy of Australian photographer Carol Jerrems alongside that of contemporary artists Larry Clark, Nan Goldin and William Yang.
The collection takes its inspiration from the way each artist candidly depicts a social milieu and urban life of the 1970s and early 1980s. Sharing an interest in sub-cultural groups and individuals on the margins of society, each artist reveals a remarkable capacity to provide an empathetic glimpse into semi-private worlds through intimate depictions of people and their surroundings.
Jerrems’ photography was associated with a feminist and political imperative, a preoccupation with subcultures, forgotten and dispossessed groups, especially Aboriginal communities of the time. Larry Clark unflinchingly turned the camera onto himself and his amphetamine-shooting coterie to produce “Tulsa” (1971), a series of photographs repeatedly cited for its raw depiction of marginalized youth. With its grainy shot-from-the-hip style, “Tulsa” exposes a world of sex, death, violence, anxiety and boredom capturing the aimlessness and ennui of teenagers.
Larry Clark's influenced Nan Goldin and a generation of artists who aspired to break with the more traditional documentary modes. Mining the emotional depths of her friends, lovers and family, Goldin's work reveals a riveting intimacy while uncovering the bohemian life of New York’s Lower East Side. Goldin says, “I was documenting my life. It comes directly from the snapshot, which is always about love.”
William Yang’s photographs from the 1970s further the snapshot aesthetic through journeying into the intimate world of his particular social milieu: drag queens, Sydney gay and inner-city culture. Yang’s direct, unpretentious photographs provide a unique chronicle of marginalised groups especially as he put it: “…people who are gay, who were invisible, who were too scared to come out. During gay liberation people became visible, people became politicized, and there was a Mardi Gras that was a symbol of the movement.”
This piece includes a number of high-resolution photographs, a remarkable slide show and two documentary short films.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/up-close-photographs-of-candid-intimacy/“Up Close” is a collection of photographs that features the exceptional... more
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Ctrl.Alt.Shift's first year was crazier than Boris Johnson's hair.
Following our launch in June 2008, we embarked on a mission to fight social and global injustice. As well as exposing madness and bringing the world to rights on the website and magazine we took action against countries restricting the travel of people living with HIV and highlighted the 50 million women missing in India. Given our love for all things art, music and culture, we teamed up with Vice, BALTIC, Sadlers Wells, and launched a film project which resulted in five shorts which are now touring festivals.
Ambassadors and talent who got down with the Ctrl.Alt.Shift cause included Julian Barratt, Martin Freeman, Chipmunk, Young Knives, Metronomy, Nan Goldin, Alexa Chung, David Shrigley, Matthew Stone, T Magic, The Streets, Mystery Jets, Boy Better Know and MPHO.Ctrl.Alt.Shift's first year was crazier than Boris Johnson's hair.... more
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Last week a small art gallery in the north of England did a remarkable thing: it called the police and informed on itself. Staff at the Gateshead Baltic Centre were so worried that a photograph of two young girls ? one naked ? by the female American artist Nan Goldin might be considered child porn that they phoned the police and had them come and take the questionable picture away.Last week a small art gallery in the north of England did a remarkable thing: it... more
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