29.2.12

Overpainted Photographs

Gerhard Richter is an important artist in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; his work spans nearly five decades.


 Urban landscape, ohne titel, 1998

Family, ohne titel, 2005


 The end of World War II in many ways coincided with Gerhard’s transition from childhood to adolescence, and, now under Soviet control following the Potsdam Agreement, it was to be a very different Germany to the one he had been born into.


 Interiors, ohne titel, 2008

 People, ohne titel, 1998



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24.2.12

Reading Photo: Duane Michals

"..It is no accident that you are reading this. This moment has been waiting for you, I have been waiting for you. Remember me."
(Duane Michals) 



 
Madame Schroedinger's Cat
1988


 
Madame Schroedinger's Cat
1988


Michals' work makes innovative use of photo-sequences, often incorporating text to examine emotion and philosophy.
(Kristine McKenna) 


 
The Most Beautiful Part of a Man's Body
1986 


The Most Beautiful Part of a Woman's Body
1986


He is noted for two innovations in artistic photography developed in the 1960s and 1970s. First, he "[told] a story through a series of photos" as in his 1970 book Sequences. Second, he handwrote text near his photographs, thereby giving information that the image itself could not convey.
(Ian Phillips) 


Nude observed 
1968 
 A Woman Dreaming in the City
1968



I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

3.2.12

Stieglitz & O'Keeffe


"Photography is my passion, the search for truth my obsession". 
( Alfred Stieglitz )


 O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz
1920

O'Keeffe hands by Alfred Stieglitz
1864–1946


"they were like two teenagers in love. Several times a day they would run up the stairs to their bedroom, so eager to make love that they would start taking their clothes off as they ran."
( Richard Whelan (1995). Alfred Stieglitz: A Biography. NY: Little, Brown. )


 O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz
1919

 O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz
1918


 One of the most important things that O'Keeffe provided for Stieglitz was the muse he had always wanted. He photographed O'Keeffe obsessively between 1918 and 1925 in what was the most prolific period in his entire life.

During this period he produced more than 350 mounted prints of O'Keeffe that portrayed a wide range of her character, moods and beauty.

He shot many close-up studies of parts of her body, especially her hands either isolated by themselves or near her face or hair.


Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz
 ( Painter and photographer, wife and husband, New York, 1944 ) 
  


"Photography is not an art. Neither is painting, nor sculpture, literature or music. They are only different media for the individual to express his aesthetic feelings… You do not have to be a painter or a sculptor to be an artist. You may be a shoemaker. You may be creative as such. And, if so, you are a greater artist than the majority of the painters whose work is shown in the art galleries of today."
( Alfred Stieglitz (1897). American Annual of Photography )




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