Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Citizen Bernard Dubard
oil on panel
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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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
Davis Museum and Cultural Center: Hold: Vessel 1, by Australian artist Lynette Wallworth
This is Hold: Vessel 1, by Australian artist Lynette Wallworth, a 3 channel DVD multimedia installation challenging the traditional boundaries between visual art and the sciences and examining the relationship between scientific technologies and h...
Americas Society: Pictures of You: Inaki Bonillas, Minerva Cuevas, Mario Garcia-Torres, and Yoshua Okon.
Iñaki Bonillas(b.1981, Mexico City) addresses the use of the photographic camera incorporating synaesthetic
strategies that complicates fixed categories or images of photograph...
Fort Worth International Center: OTHER VIEWS
THE ARTISTS
Monte Martin, while new to our area, has exhibited his world travel
orientated photography throughout the Midwest. The view and presentation is
conceptual and intriguing. Martin is the manager of the Arlington Art Museu...
New Mexico Photography Field School: 2001 Workshop Offerings Announced
2001 Schedule includes:
THE POSSIBILITIES OF CAMERA FORMAT: Making Photographs with the Large,
Medium and Panoramic Camera, June 4 through 10, with Craig Varjabedian
and Steve Goff.
UNDER A MOST BRILLIANT NEW MEXICO SKY, June 18 thro...
San Diego Art Institute: Alo Munizza: ...continuing the process...
Munizza continues... In my case, photography is my means of expression. What 1 see
through the view-finder of a camera is a small part of the process.
Personally, my creativity evolves in my darkroom. After I find an image
that I want to ...
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Miniature Portrait of Mary Queen of Scots. Copy from Holbein by Bernard Lens.
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