Archive for the ‘Photography by other means’ Category
Lawrence and Freddie
When you see the film Lawrence of Arabia on the big screen you realize how great its Director of Photography Freddie Young was. He won an Oscar for it. But I’m not just talking about Young as a cinematographer, I’m referring to the composed shots that appear on the screen as beautiful still images, as […]
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Tags: David Lean and freddie Young, desert movies, Freddie Young BSC, Lawrence of Arabia, Oscars for Lawrence of Arabia, photographs of deserts, photographs of the desert
Scenario
Francisco Tropa, Scenario Portugese artist Francisco Tropa is representing his country at the Venice Biennale with an installation called Scenario. This is a series of projections of mundane objects and simple processes. At first sight it looks like a room of handsome black & white photographs, but they are projected from small magic lanterns. The […]
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Tags: e-flux.com, Francisco Tropa, Francisco Tropa Portugal, Francisco Tropa Scenario, magic lantern, Portugal Venice Biennale
The Innocents Abroad
Elisabetta Benassi, The Innocents Abroad 2011 Venice Biennale: Nine microfiche machines in a darkened room. The machines are automated and retrieve hundreds of press photographs from the 20th century. The screens displays a photograph for a moment before moving on to the next retrieval. The busy machines clatter in their work. When they stop you […]
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The Iwo Jima photograph 3
The 5×4 inch sheet of film that photographer Joe Rosenthal exposed on Mount Suribachi during World War II was transformed in 1954 into a 60 foot high bronze sculpture. This is a unique metamorphosis: from film to bronze, from 2D to 3D, from small to large. The sculptor of the Iwo Jima monument was Felix […]
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Tags: Felix de Weldon, Felix de Weldon sculptor, Iwo Jima Arlington cemetry, Iwo Jima photograph, Iwo Jima sculptor, photography by other means, sculptor of Iwo Jima monument, soldiers raising american flag, soldiers raising flag, The Iwo Jima photograph
The Iwo Jima photograph 2
The Iwo Jima photograph is unique in the history of photography for its amazing transformation into other art forms. This simple two dimensional black & white print metamorphosed into a 3D clay model, then into a 32 foot foot high bronze sculpture. It was transformed from a photograph into an engraving on a postage stamp. […]
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Grail and Wail
Susan Fereday, Grail Sherry glasses hanging by thread. A spotlight casts their shadows onto the wall behind. Each glass casts a shadow of its form, like a negative. Each shadow sparkles from within: the refracted light from the lens of the glass stem. These are the elements of Susan Fereday‘s Grail, part of her PhD […]
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Tags: Fox Talbot Latticed Window, Grail, Latticed Window 1835, Light out of Darkness, Mirrors and Windows, Monash PhD, photography by other means, Susan Fereday, Susan Fereday Grail, Susan Fereday Wail, Szarkowski Mirrors and Windows, Wail
Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper has died today at the age of 74. A Dennis Hopper exhibition showed at Melbourne’s ACMI during 2010 and some of the work was related to the big Hopper exhibition at New York’s Tony Shafrazi Gallery I saw in 2009. Hopper is more of an artist that I thought, more of a creative […]
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Tags: ACMI, Dennis Hopper, Dennis Hopper photography, Tony Shafrazi gallery
