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Gemeentemuseum Den Haag: Lens and Paper: the Loudon collection
His choice includes: drawings by artists such as René Daniëls (NL), Chris Ofili (GB)
and Patrick van Caeckenbergh (B); photographs by Alicia Framis (S),
...
photoza: Myopic Visions-Italian Landscapes by Scott Brightwell
"5 years ago I transferred my home to central Italy. This new landscape, with
dramatic light and soft pastel palettes, inspired a reawakening to
experience the landscape through the lens formed image. In this ongoing body
of work, I have contin...
Center for Fine Art Photography: Call for Artists: Main Gallery Show - Portrait
All submissions taken online at website www.c4fap.org
Office phone 970 224 1010, calls can be taken 9 to 5 MST or go to www.c4fap.org for more information.
*Important Dates: *
Entries due: August 18, 2009
Notice of acceptance: A...
temporarycontemporary: Episode: Amanda Beech, Julie Henry, Mark Ingham, Alison Jones, Jaspar Joseph-Lester
Through the exhibition we explore the pleasure, power and sensory extravagance of the delivery of images that propose themselves as fictions or facts. Rather than identify truth as being behind or beyond images, we analyse the politics of belief i...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Rural England Through a Victorian Lens: Benjamin Bricknell Turner
Known for his beautiful early photographs of rural England, Turner was one of the first, and remains
one of the most respected, of all British photographers. Between 1852 and 1854 he compiled 60 of his
photographs under the title Photographic Vi...
Transart Institute, Berlin Summer Program: Call for Artists: Lens Based Artists Saught for Simply Screen - Inbetweeners of Asia
A course description can be found under point 8 at: http://www.transartinstitute.org/Newpages/Residencies_Summer09.html
Simply Screen aims to show a selection of...
Duncan Miller Gallery: Marc Riboud: The World, His Lens
Known for his strong and graphic compositions, a sense of compassion for the human spirit is also present in Marc Riboud images. His work can be found in major private and museum collections throughout the world, including the Musée d'Art Moderne ...
SODA Gallery: Tim Hixson: It’s a Bit Sharkey Out There
The images were mostly taken around Avalon and some from surfing trips to Indonesia and the Eastern coast of Australia.
Hixson’s work is rendered very uniquely by the use of the plastic lens cameras he has become renowned for. He pulls them...
Midwest Photo Exchange, MPX Gallery: Redeeming Values: Alternative Speed Graphic Photography by Teresa Saska
Artist's statement.
When I need a diversion from stress and routine,
photography not only gives me that but it helps me
appreciate pieces of the world I would not otherwise
notice. This show of alternative speed graphic images
is about a...
La Raza Galeria Posada: Jesse Vasquez : Postcards from Paradox
"The speed of light has become one of the most accurately known constants of nature" - Brill & Stork Falk
The mission of La Raza Galeria Posada is to advance, celebrate and preserve the art and culture of the Chicano, Latino and Native people ...
Center for Women and Their Work: Simple Wonders: Photographs by Debra Sgerman
The Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA), the state agency responsible for promoting art and cultural tourism across the state, has included this event in their new 10 Fun Fall Cultural Events list that aids in plann...
Rice Unversity Art Gallery: The Shape of Space: Alyson Shotz
Reflection is an ongoing subject of Alyson Shotz's work. Often, she uses mirrors as a device to explore how we perceive nature and assign meaning to it. For her seminal performance work Untitled (Reflective Mimicry), 1997, Shotz wore a fully mirro...
Red Head Gallery: Signs and Symptoms: New Work by Laura Cunningham
Assumptions are made with figurative work that there is a direct
relationship between the artist and the subject. In this body of work there
is only distance. Photos of people in medical texts caught gazing directly
into the lens as the camera...
Museum of Contemporary Art: Beat Streuli
For
Streuli's first commission at a United States museum, the MCA's front
lobby windows have been covered with transparent, large-scale colored
photographs, so people from the outside are able to see in reverse
what those in th...
Tate Britain: Dryden Goodwin: Closer
The use of a zoom lens further confounds the distance between the camera and its subject. This visual ambiguity, combined with a multi-layered soundtrack, manipulates the relationship between the viewer and the viewed, creating an atmosphere which...
Irish Museum of Modern Art: The Unblinking Eye: Lens-based Art from the Collection
The Unblinking Eye comprises approximately 40 works, and draws on a wide range of practices, all of which incorporate the camera to make artworks of great diversity and technique. Works range from photoworks which document performances by artists...
Association of Photographers Gallery: 7 - Seven Incredible Photographers
AOP members Marcus Lyon, Julie Fisher, Luc Beziat, Roger Hutchings, Dod Miller, Andy Wilson and Matthew Stuart have brought together some of their most thought provoking and stunning Black and White images.
In ‘7’ Roger Hutchings lifts the ...
Red Gate Gallery: Altered States: Red Gate Gallery Artists
Altered States #1 at the Red Gate Gallery, Watchtower addresses the impact of the changing environment in China – social, geo-political and economic – on the lives of its people through the paintings, sculptures and photographs of featured artists...
ARTIUM, Basque Centre-Museum of Contemporary Art: The Self and the Other . Portraiture in Contemporary Indian Photography
The 16 photographers and artists in this exhibition are connected in their celebration of the staged image and their works invalidate any assertion of realism. While the self-portraits are an enactment of roles derived from the imagination and liv...
Space Station Sixty Five: JJ Stevens: Dandy
Dandy begins as a portrait of a humorous personality and decays into a spasm of self ˆ torment and visceral effect with undertones of violence and torture. Our Dandy is a victim of his own narcissism, forever trapped behind the lens he pandered to...
Hotel del Arte: Two lenses focusing on two worlds: Carmelo Palomero (India) and Fernando Alonso (N.Y.)
The artists are the carriers of this audacious grandeur. They, in a risky way, show us a part of themselves, they open their heart to us, so that we express our opinion and criticize about their creations, without taking into account at times that...
Forest Lawn Museum: Positive/Negatives: The Unity of Film
Amazing moments in political history are captured, the lives of forgotten people become stories of dignity and courage, daily scenes in Mexico are seen with new eyes, and the beauty of light and human form meld together. Photography becomes so muc...
Fairfield Art Publishing: Ellen Fisch Offers Arichitectural Details as Posters
The motifs that she captures with her lens provide visual records of often unnoticed details: flowers, arabesques, interlocking scroll work and other shapes that grace architecture. This unique and extraordinarily aesthetic way of photographing a...
fototeka: Photographs By Martin Elkort
In Elkortís New York, people and their surroundings ñ the streets,
buildings and signage -- seem to belong to the same organic entity. He not
only shows us the vitality and drama of the city, he clearly is an element
of it. The people in his im...
bitforms gallery: Mark Napier: Sacred Code
The artwork translates the stream of bits
into motion: two calligraphic marks, one black and one white, chase one
another in a seemingly endless dance on screen, leaving behind faint trails
as the move. Rather than interpreting the meaning of ...
Jadite Galleries: Harlem : Photographs by Ellen Fisch
Ellen Fisch (www.absolutearts.com/ellenfisch), a well known photographer, has always had a special passion for the details of architecture, their relationships to their surroundings and their hist...
Spertus Museum: Vishniac Photographs Breathe Life into Memories of Children from a Vanished World
An exhibition of 50 of Vishniac’s photographs are part of the exhibition Roman Vishniac: Children of a Vanished World, on display at Spertus Museum (618 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago) from January 28 - August 31, 2001. Approximately two thirds of...
Haus der Kunst: Lee Friedlander: Photographs 1956 - 2004
Lee Friedlander has brought new amplitude to the old idea of 'a body of work.' A draconian selection of Friedlander's best individual pictures would be stunning, but it would brutally amputate what it purports to explore. The exhibition and book a...
198 Gallery: Petrona Morrison: South African Diary II
Petrona Morrison’s new body of work, South African Diary II, is inspired by her experience on a two-month residency at the Bag Factory (Fordsburg Artists Studios) in Johannesburg, in 2004. It documents the artist’s response to the contradictions a...
Dia:Beacon: Dia's Andy: Through the Lens of Patronage
A special publication, which takes Warhol's Interview magazine as a model, contextualizes the exhibition with images and facsimiles of published texts related to the works on view. Public programs include screenings of the artist's early films and...
Tacoma Art Museum: Frida Kahlo: Images of an Icon
Kahlo’s life story was portrayed on film by her father, her husband, her lovers, and her friends, as well as prominent photojournalists and photographers of the time. At an early age, she became aware of the beauty and magic of photography, as bot...
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: Keith Tyson: Large Field Array
For Tyson, the systematic assemblage, which incidentally reflects the huge formations of radio telescopes in the Arizona Desert, forms one large field where the fundamental forces of reality, its infinite possibilities and cause-and-effect relatio...
Centre for Contemporary Photography: Love at First Sight: Chris Barry, Pat Brassington, Janina Green, Siri Hayes, Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Selina Ou, Sanja Pahoki, Kimberly Roxburgh, Julie Rrap, Anne Zahalka
'from the first moment that I handled my lens with a tender ardour... it has become to me as a living thing, with voice and memory and creative vigour' - Julia Margaret Cameron, 1874
Love at First Sight celebrates women in front of, behind and...
Gallery of Photography: Tracy Tammy Tracy: The Rise and Fall of a Romantic Conception
If the television was conscious and
watching, do you think we'd make more effort to relate to or sympathise
with its position? You might answer yes, or alternatively view this as
ridiculous and anyone who'd do such a thing as a lonesome
social...
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art: Tomoko Yoneda - An End is A Beginning
As a photographer, Yoneda is loyal to photography as a medium for observing and recording a subject. In her continuing series Scene (1998-), the photographs she takes are seemingly of mountains, beaches and urban scenes. These sites, however, are ...
Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art: Faye Claridge : Descendants of the Unfamiliar
Employing techniques from the renaissance workshop and the photographer’s studio, in video and photography, Claridge creates work that forces us to confront the ethics of identity and representation.
Claridge is an interdisciplinary artist, ...
Oriental Institute, University of Chicago: Modern Views of Egypt: Contemporary Photos of Egypt
These photographs are selected from the
permanent collection of Chicagos LaSalle Bank. The exhibition will inaugurate the Holleb Family Temporary Exhibits Gallery, part of the
ongoing renovation of the Oriental Institute galleries.
Gene Gr...
Throckmorton Fine Art: Diego y Frida: Photographs by Various Photographers
Diego Rivera (1886 – 1957) is not only the most outstanding of contemporary Mexican painters, an artist of unequaled vastness of conception; he is also the most prolific. He stands as the example of a painter who, having assimilated and utilized ...
Jadite Galleries: Photographs of Details of Architecture by Ellen Fisch
The motifs that she has expertly preserved with her lens include ornamental details influenced by the art and cultures of Africa, Asia, and Europe as well as the United States, celebrating a craftsmanship that makes, as the artist has noted, “even...
Bauhaus Archiv, Museum für Gestaltung: SANAA: Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa
The designs are captivating in their resourcefulness, offering subtle solutions for complex challenges. The language of form is minimalist and clear; the preferred ma-terial is transparent and light. The structures fit well into their environment,...
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