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Montage & Collage Photomontage: the technique
of combining in a single composition pictorial elements from various sources,
as parts of different photographs or fragments of printing, either to give
the illusion that the elements belonged together originally or to allow each
element to retain its separate identity as a means of adding interest or
meaning to the composition. Collage: a technique of
composing a work of art by pasting on a single surface various materials not
normally associated with one another, as newspaper clippings, parts of
photographs, theater tickets, and fragments of an envelope. A Short History of Photomontage/Collage
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/davepalmer/cutandpaste/heartfield.html Digital Photomontage
Samples: Andreas Gursky Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge Other artists and works: Fiona
Amundsen The First City in History Camera
Work
offers four different takes on photography. Loosely organised
around the idea of photography as a research tool, these four projects offer
different working methodologies and presentation techniques, to test the
visibility of the medium and its claims to historical truth. In turn, the
exhibition challenges and extends the documentary claims of the photographic
medium. Camera Work is staged during the New Zealand International
Arts Festival. Fiona
Amundsen's
The First City in History (2010) forms part of a larger project,
which tracks the impact of World War Two across parts of Asia and eventually
the Pacific. Focusing on the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan,
Amundsen uses the camera to closely study public space, embracing the
medium's indexical relation to reality to reconfigure how historical,
cultural and political meanings are invested not in overt symbols located on
site but through careful acts of perception, recognition, interpretation and
extrapolation on the part of the viewer. The
Campus
(2011) is John Lake's response to an invitation to capture life on
campus at Victoria University of Wellington. Developed over the course of
2011, this project has produced a fascinating archive of visual material that
will enter the university art collection as a suite of ten framed
photographs, an artist's book and an archive of raw video footage. Presented
for the exhibition as a situation that invites discussion, The Campus
shows how a research endeavour that set out to
capture the mundane activities of university life turned into a quest to
grant deeper insights into the social, cultural and political forces that
power relations in this or any educational institution. http://thecampusproject.tumblr.com/ Simon
Starling's
Autoxylopyrocycloboros (2006) is a slide
piece that tracks the reclamation and destruction of a small wooden steamboat
on a loch in Scotland which is also base to Trident
submarines that carry nuclear weapons as part of Britain's defence programme. Using old
technology (steam propulsion and slide projection), Starling offers a pointed
critique of our all-too-human investment in progress that is at once absurd
and telling. During the
1970s, photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki
frequented Tokyo's Shinjuku, Yoyogi, and Aoyama
parks at night. Armed with a 35mm camera infrared film, and filtered flash
bulbs, he documented the men and women who gathered there for clandestine
trysts, as well as others lurking in the bushes who watched them and
sometimes participated in their couplings. According to Martin Parr, The
Park is 'a brilliant piece of social documentation, capturing
perfectly the loneliness, sadness, and desperation that so often accompany
sexual or human relationships in a big, hard metropolis like Tokyo.' Perspective
and photography http://www.artbabble.org/artist Margi Geerlinks
Anthony Goicolea Martina
Lopez David Hockney Hockney: Pearblossom Highway
and video (3:12) Narratives in Painting and
Photographic Imaging: Hieronymous Bosch Flemish painter 1450-1516 http://www.idr.unipi.it/iura-communia/bosch.jpg
Saying things with
photographs: James Nachtwey
Center for Land Use
Interpretation ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Cartesian
linearity: Contrast with Hyperbolic Spaces and thinking: http://www.deborahaschheim.com/files/Reconsider-Catalog.pdf :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Opinion Art balloon art http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/off-the-deep-end/?ref=design-issue |
