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© 2016 Mary Kate Scott ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
© 2016 Mary Kate Scott ALL RIGHTS RESERVED THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF ABSENCE: DEATH IN POSTMODERN AMERICA By MARY KATE SCOTT A dissertation submitted to the Graduate School-New Brunswick Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey In partial fulfillment of the requirements For the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Program in Art History Written under the direction of Andrés Zervigón And approved by ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ New Brunswick, New Jersey January 2016 ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION The Photography of Absence: Death in Postmodern America By MARY KATE SCOTT Dissertation Director: Dr. Andrés Zervigón It is a paradox that postmodern photographic theory—so thoroughly obsessed with death—rarely addresses intimate scenes of explicit death or mortality. Rather, it applies these themes to photographs of living subjects or empty spaces, laying upon each image a blanket of pain, loss, or critical dissatisfaction. Postmodern theorists such as Rosalind Krauss and Geoffrey Batchen root their work in the writings of Roland Barthes, which privilege a photograph’s viewer over its subject or maker. To Barthes’ followers in the 1980s and 1990s, the experiences depicted within the photograph were not as important as our own relationships with it, in the present. The photographers of the Pictures Generation produced groundbreaking imagery that encouraged the viewer to question authority, and even originality itself. Little was said, though, about intimacy, beauty, the actual fact of death, or the author’s individual experience. However, a significant group of American art photographers at the end of the twentieth century began making works directly featuring their own personal experiences with mortality. -
Amir Crowns Winners of Gulf
BUSINESS | 01 SPORT | 09 QNB to Lara, Kallis to embrace feature in Qatar digital Celebrity Cricket transformation League Monday 9 December 2019 | 12 Rabia II 1441 www.thepeninsula.qa Volume 24 | Number 8100 | 2 Riyals Safeguard your mission-critical data in Qatar’s safest Data Centre Amir to honour Amir crowns winners of Gulf Cup winners of International Anti-Corruption Excellence We were delighted that our brothers participated in Award today 24th Arabian Gulf Cup, with whom we lived wonderful QNA/DOHA days. Congratulations for Bahrain on winning the title and good luck for the other teams. We are proud on Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin the success of the championship and all thanks and Hamad Al Thani will head to the appreciation to those participated in organising it. Republic of Rwanda today to attend the ceremony of Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani Inter- QNA/DOHA Asian Football Confederation, national Anti-Corruption Excel- H E Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim lence Award, which will be held Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Al Khalifa, Their Excellencies in Kigali in partnership with the Hamad Al Thani crowned the Sheikhs and Ministers and heads United Nations, in the presence national football team of the of the Gulf Olympic committees of President of the Republic of Kingdom of Bahrain, the winners and federations, Their Excel- Rwanda H E Paul Kagame; Pres- of the 24th Arabian Gulf Cup, lencies heads of the diplomatic ident of the Republic of Namibia following their 1-0 victory over missions accredited to the State, H E Hage Geingob; President of the national football team of the senior officials in the sport field the Democratic Republic of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at and a huge numbers of fans. -
Andres Serrano – Natures Mortes Aus Blut, Schweiß Und Sperma
HIV/AIds und Kunst Andres Serrano – Natures mortes aus Blut, Schweiß und Sperma Andres Serrano, geboren 1950 in New York als Sohn einer afro-kubanischen Mutter und eines honduranischen Vaters, wuchs in einem katholisch geprägten Umfeld auf. Bereits als Jugendlicher war er interessiert an Renaissance- Malerei und speziell religiöser Ikonographie. Bereits zu Anfang seiner künstlerischen Laufbahn konzentrierte er sich auf die Fotografie – beeinflusst von Bunuel und anderen Surrealisten, waren Kadaver und insbesondere Blut, Milch und Sperma zentrale Bildelemente seiner Fotografien. D i e pe radikaler Katholiken beschädigt wurde. 1985-90 Serrano selbst wies den Vorwurf der entstan- Blasphemie immer zurück – tatsächlich d e n e n kann man das Werk als moderne Inter- S e r i e n pretation des Kreuzwegs Christi, der „ B o d y Verspottung, sehen. Ob tiefgründig oder Fluids“ plakativ, sei dahingestellt. u n d Serrano scheut dabei auch nicht Ausflüge „Immer- in die Popkultur: Die Arbeiten „Blood sions“ – and Semen III“ und „Piss and Blood“ v o r dienten als Cover-Fotos für zwei Alben allem die der Metal-Band Metallica. Diese und Andres Serrano Fotogra- andere Titel stehen in einem scheinbar fie „Piss Christ“ von 1987 aus der letzte- widersprüchlichen Kontrast zu Serranos ren – wurden einer breiteren Öffentlich- Intention, der diese Fotografien als Andres Serrano: „Ku Klux Klan“, 1998, keit bekannt: Sie zeigt ein Plastik-Kruzi- monochrome Studien zu Licht und Farb- Cibachrome, 98,5 x 79 cm fix, das mit Urin bespritzt wird, und löste einen Skandal aus, der Serrano endgültig werten bezeichnete. So bezog sich z.B. einer breiten Öffentlichkeit bekannt die Arbeit „Milk Blood“ von 1984 explizit machte: Die republikanischen Senatoren auf die geometrischen Abstraktionen Jesse Helms und Alphonse D’Amato grif- Mondrians. -
Nan Goldin and Andres Serrano's Post-Mortem Photography
Visible Care: Nan Goldin and Andres Serrano’s Post-mortem Photography Lauren Jane Summersgill Humanities and Cultural Studies Birkbeck, University of London Submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy November 2014 2 Declaration I certify that this thesis is the result of my own investigations and, except for quotations, all of which have been clearly identified, was written entirely by me. Lauren J. Summersgill October 2014 3 Abstract This thesis investigates artistic post-mortem photography in the context of shifting social relationship with death in the 1980s and 1990s. Analyzing Nan Goldin’s Cookie in Her Casket and Andres Serrano’s The Morgue, I argue that artists engaging in post- mortem photography demonstrate care for the deceased. Further, that demonstrable care in photographing the dead responds to a crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s in America. At the time, death returned to social and political discourse with the visibility of AIDS and cancer and the euthanasia debates, spurring on photographic engagement with the corpse. Nan Goldin’s 1989 post-mortem portrait of her friend, Cookie in Her Casket, was first presented within The Cookie Portfolio. The memorial portfolio traced the friendship between Cookie and Goldin over fourteen years. The work relies on a personal narrative, framing the works within a familial gaze. I argue that Goldin creates the sense of family to encourage empathy in the viewer for Cookie’s loss. Further, Goldin’s generic and beautified post-mortem image of Cookie is a way of offering Cookie respect and dignity in death. Andres Serrano’s 1992 The Morgue is a series of large-scale cropped, and detailed photographs capturing indiscriminate bodies from within an unidentified morgue. -
Abducted Georgian Doctor Discussed at Geneva Talks
Issue no: 1211 • DECEMBER 13 - 16, 2019 • PUBLISHED TWICE WEEKLY PRICE: GEL 2.50 In this week’s issue... Femicide in Georgia - 151 Women Murdered in 6 Years NEWS PAGE 2 TBC Bank Receives EBRD Award for Financing Energy Effi ciency Projects NEWS PAGE 3 Why Russia is Not as Weak as it Seems POLITICS PAGE 4 Investing in Georgia’s Green Economy! BUSINESS PAGE 6 Holiday Factory Named Best Incoming Tour Operator ON GLOBAL 2019 at Welcome to FOCUS CLIMATE CHANGE Georgia! Awards Georgia joins the Resolution cause with the polyphonic group Suliko PAGE 2 Abducted Georgian Doctor Discussed at Geneva Talks BY TEA MARIAMIDZE BUSINESS PAGE 7 he 50th round of the Geneva Inter- national Discussions (GID), which represent the only format of an LAG, No Lag: Mestia, ongoing international dialogue between Georgia and Russia, took Svaneti Tplace in Geneva, Switzerland, on December 10-11. One of the main topics was the case of the ille- CULTURE PAGE 9 gally detained doctor, Vazha Gaprindashvili, who has been held captive by the puppet regime of the Russian-occupied South Ossetia since early 4 Young Pianists Play November. Image source: alt-info.com Lasha Darsalia, Deputy Foreign Minister and “The human rights and humanitarian situation “We listened to the views of both parties. We at Paris Christmas Gala Head of the Georgian delegation, at the talks, has worsened there since August. There are a hope that Gaprindashvili will be returned to his noted he hoped Gaprindashvili’s case will be number of issues related to both the closure of loved ones in the near future. -
The History of Photography: the Research Library of the Mack Lee
THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY The Research Library of the Mack Lee Gallery 2,633 titles in circa 3,140 volumes Lee Gallery Photography Research Library Comprising over 3,100 volumes of monographs, exhibition catalogues and periodicals, the Lee Gallery Photography Research Library provides an overview of the history of photography, with a focus on the nineteenth century, in particular on the first three decades after the invention photography. Strengths of the Lee Library include American, British, and French photography and photographers. The publications on French 19th- century material (numbering well over 100), include many uncommon specialized catalogues from French regional museums and galleries, on the major photographers of the time, such as Eugène Atget, Daguerre, Gustave Le Gray, Charles Marville, Félix Nadar, Charles Nègre, and others. In addition, it is noteworthy that the library includes many small exhibition catalogues, which are often the only publication on specific photographers’ work, providing invaluable research material. The major developments and evolutions in the history of photography are covered, including numerous titles on the pioneers of photography and photographic processes such as daguerreotypes, calotypes, and the invention of negative-positive photography. The Lee Gallery Library has great depth in the Pictorialist Photography aesthetic movement, the Photo- Secession and the circle of Alfred Stieglitz, as evidenced by the numerous titles on American photography of the early 20th-century. This is supplemented by concentrations of books on the photography of the American Civil War and the exploration of the American West. Photojournalism is also well represented, from war documentary to Farm Security Administration and LIFE photography. -
Street Photography – for the Purist Words & Photos by Chris Weeks
Street Photography – For the Purist words & photos by Chris Weeks forwards with photos by: Severin Koller – Austria Michael Kaiser – Germany Matthew Craig – United States of America Rainer Pawellek – France Deborah Delasio – Italy Errol Lyons-Rainey – United Kingdom Darren Abate – United States of America Massimiliano Mortillaro – Czech Republic Bernhard Wolf – Austria Patrick Kahn – Los Angeles/Paris Forward by Severin Koller – Austria (edited by Chris Weeks) When I started photography about two years ago I had a compact digital camera with no mentionable resolution. I soon started to focus on structures and abstract photography because anything else wasn't possible due to the low quality. It soon led me to architectural photography, which turned out to be the subject and style I master the best. It also makes my living at the moment. With that small digital camera, street photography were just ridiculous attempts that never turned out as they should have. As I investigated new photographic gear about a year ago, I still had the opinion that digital is the way … the future. Last summer I got the Canon Eos 1Ds Mark II, which I use for my commissions and some conceptual and architectural work. I used it for personal work sometimes as well. The moments you want to make should be personal, intimate, close and unobtrusive photos … you can throw these 7000 bucks in the rubbish bin !! My point is … I fell in love with street photography the moment I started analogue photography. I never took portraits. I never did journalism. I never dared to do street photography the classic way. -
Gian Paolo Barbieri? Perché, Mai? Al Culmine Di Un Anno Di Appuntamenti Fotografici Organizzati, Allestiti E Svolti Sotto L’Egida Di Mat2019
In forma di prologo Raramente, mi esprimo in prima persona, preferendo frequentare la forma impersonale del “noi”. Non lo faccio per evitare eventuali responsabilità di e dalla scrittura, ma per una malaugurata assenza di autoreferenzialità (e, forse, di terribile timidezza), che antepone l’argomento affrontato e trattato a qualsivoglia personalismo, o presunto tale. Però, qui e oggi, per mille e mille motivi, certamente tutti leciti e plausibili, scrivo in prima persona singolare: “io”, invece di “noi”. Lo faccio in triplice rispetto; in questo ordine, in questa graduatoria: anzitutto, verso il pubblico, referente principale, che ha così modo di percepire l’intimità delle considerazioni espresse; quindi, per l’autore Gian Paolo Barbieri, affinché sappia a chi riferirsi individualmente, magari sdegnandosi senza sbagliare mira; infine, di coloro con i quali ho condiviso e condivido il cammino di Coscienza dell’Uomo, all’interno del cui contenitore viene allestita l’attuale selezione Tahiti Tattoos, che sono all’oscuro del contenuto che sto per esprimere, e dal quale hanno così modo di prendere probabili distanze. M.R. Gian Paolo Barbieri? Perché, mai? Al culmine di un anno di appuntamenti fotografici organizzati, allestiti e svolti sotto l’egida di Mat2019. Coscienza dell’Uomo potrebbe anche risultare chiaro, perché chiarito a lettere schiette e sincere, oltre che energiche, determinate ed evidenti. Perfino, coraggiose.Coscienza dell’Uomo ha scartato a lato convenzioni e retoriche che, almeno qui da noi, in Italia, nel nostro paese, inquinano la riflessione sulla Fotografia, qualsiasi cosa questa significhi per ciascuno di noi. Dunque, Coscienza in quanto tale e non dipendente dall’esuberante apparenza dei soggetti avvicinati e fotografati. -
CARLA VAN DE PUTTELAAR Arusha Gallery | +44 1315 571412 | [email protected]
CARLA VAN DE PUTTELAAR Arusha Gallery | +44 1315 571412 | [email protected] BIOGRAPHY Dutch photographer Carla van de Puttelaar is a graduate of Amsterdam’s Gerrit Rietveld Academie and has exhibited in Holland, Hungary, Germany, France, Spain, South Korea and the USA. Her work has been awarded the Dutch Prix de Rome, one of the country’s highest art honours. With a corpus of fine art portraits, nude studies and a scholarly approach to the use of light, van de Puttelaar’s work has drawn critical comparisons to the works of the Dutch Golden Age of painting. Her compositions are deeply intellectual, demonstrative of a rigorous working knowledge of the national art history of the Netherlands -- but without ever sacrificing the sensuality and sensitivity of their subjects. Recent work has seen her move from the female body that has dominated much of her previous photographs, engaging instead with flowers and other naturalist images. In these, van de Puttelaar has discovered many of the same qualities: textures, skins, sensitivities as unique to the subject as the way light plays on their surfaces. EDUCATION 2009 The Amsterdam/Maastricht Summer University 2002 Rijksacademie (Prix de Rome) 1991-1996 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam AWARDS AND 2010 HONORS Critical Mass, Top 50 Photographers Finalist The Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Finalist 2009 The International Photography Awards (IPA), Honorable Mention Prix de la Photographie (PX3), Paris, Honorable Mentions (Fine Art and Book) 2008 The Black and White Spider Awards, Nomination -
2016-2017Programs & Events
Jean Paul Goude, Danny Lyon, Ralph Gibson, Graciela Iturbide, Martin Parr, Nan Goldin, Elliot Erwitt, Richard Misrach, Susan Meiselas, Neil Leifer, Eli Reed, Nick Ut, Carrie Mae Weems, William Klein, Viktor Skrebneski, Tina Barney, Herman Leonard. 2016-2017 PROGRAMS & EVENTS OUR MISSION IS TO HONOR MASTER PHOTOGRAPHERS, DISCOVER AND CULTIVATE EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHERS, AND PROMOTE THE APPRECIATION OF PHOTOGRAPHY WORLDWIDE. The Lucie Foundation presents a variety of year- round programs that reach millions of individuals through multiple platforms and events, with concentrated efforts in Los Angeles and New York. The Lucie Foundation presents two signature events – Month of Photography Los Angeles © Sandro- 2014 and 2015 International Photographer of the Year and The Lucie Awards, which will celebrate its fourteenth year in October, in New York. The Foundation is seeking a diverse group of companies, organizations, media and internet partners to support our mission. With enhanced marketing, advertising, and promotional campaigns, the Lucie Foundation programs are targeted to thousands of potential new consumers each year. The Foundation presents the most celebrated annual event in photography, in addition to viable and sustainable educational programs that advance our mission to cultivate emerging and professional photographers. The Foundation’s sister effort, the International Photography Awards conducts an annual competition for professional, non-professional, and student photographers on a global scale, creating one of the most ambitious and comprehensive competitions in the photography world today. The winners of this competition are presented with Lucie statues and over $22,500 in cash prizes at The Lucie Awards. © Robert Leslie - 2008 Lucie Awards at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC The Lucie Foundation is a 501(c)3 charitable foundation. -
To Download the Catalogue As A
HSUMMER E2020 RHE ROO e SSe Marvin Newman PHOTOGRAPHS 2020 HEROES Our absolute highlights from the history of fine art photography Vintage and Printed later May 15 >> Against the tide of perfection and eye-popping colors made 34 images possible by digital photography, many contemporary 20 artists photographers have looked to the aesthetics of the past, embracing everything from the soft warmth of a sepia-toned print to the darkroom mishaps and light-spots that used to result from clunky analogue cameras. The term ‘vintage’ in photography - like in other discipli- nes - implies a certain age, authenticity and value. But what does it mean exactly? A vintage print is a photographic print made shortly after the creation of the negative. This is not Provenances an exact science: roughly, a gap of a few years between the Kahmann negative and its first print is allowed, but ten years is not. Gallery What’s important is that it’s the first print or series of prints Amsterdam made or commissioned by the photographer. Furthermore, and prints can only be called vintage when they’re at least 25 Howard years old. That means that the first print made by a photo- Greenberg grapher right now by definition isn’t vintage – but it will be Gallery in 25 years. New York When treating the photograph as a collectable piece of art, a vintage print can be considered the ‘original’, making them the most valuable and sought after prints. This doesn’t mean later prints (marked: ‘printed later’) are essentially worthless, like copies of paintings are. -
American Canvas: an Arts Legacy for Our Communities. INSTITUTION National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC
DOCUMENT RESUME ED 422 253 SO 029 161 AUTHOR Larson, Gary 0. TITLE American Canvas: An Arts Legacy for Our Communities. INSTITUTION National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC. PUB DATE 1997-00-00 NOTE 192p. AVAILABLE FROM National Endowment for the Arts, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20506-0001; telephone: 202-682-5400. PUB TYPE Reports Descriptive (141) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC08 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Aesthetics; *Art; Art Education; *Community Involvement; *Community Role; *Community Support; Cultural Background; *Cultural Education; *Fine Arts; Humanities ABSTRACT This report results from regional forums across the country to assess the current state of nonprofit arts in the United States. The report describes a cautionary tale about this nation's cultural legacy, the economic and social conditions surrounding the nonprofit arts, compartmentalization of the arts in community life, the place of the arts in education, and the opportunities and risks presented by new technologies. The report also offers challenges for individuals and organizations to take future action to sustain and preserve the nonprofit arts in their own communities. Chapters of the book include: (1) "Improving the Climate for Culture"; (2) "Transmitting Our Cultural Legacy"; (3) "The Evolving Cultural Landscape"; (4) "Americans and the Arts"; (5)"Culture and Community"; (6) "Arts and Education"; (7) "The Arts and Telecommunications"; (8) "Seeking New Solutions"; (9) "The Challenge to Act"; and (10)"Calls to Action." Two appendices conclude the volume: (1) "American Canvas Forums" and (2) "American Canvas National Committee & Steering 'I'ommittee." (EH) ******************************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document.