Antarctica series
Blumenfeld developed a process to reduce photography to its most essential ingredients: light and light-sensitive material. Foregoing the use of a traditional camera, the artist instead builds special recording devices, which she uses to expose photographic papers, films and digital media directly to the ever-changing sunlight and moonlight. In her resulting photo-based works and video installations, natural light phenomenon is medium and subject non-objective documentations of light itself as seen through the cycles of astronomic and atmospheric events.
from: http://concrete-photography.org/erika-blumenfeld.html
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Photographer, collector, diarist, and writer of books Peter Beard has fashioned his life into a work of art; the illustrated diaries he kept from a young age evolved into a serious career as an artist and earned him a central position in the international art world. He was painted by Francis Bacon, painted on by Salvador Dalí, and made diaries with Andy Warhol; he toured with Truman Capote and the Rolling Stones, created books with Jacqueline Onassis and Mick Jagger – all of whom are brought to life, literally and figuratively, in his work. Continue reading Peter Beard →
Genesis
After a somewhat itinerant childhood, Salgado initially trained as an economist, earning a master’s degree in economics from the University of São Paulo in Brazil. He began work as an economist for the International Coffee Organization, often traveling to Africa on missions for the World Bank, when he first started seriously taking photographs. Continue reading Sebastião Salgado →
American artist and writer, Allan Sekula, (born Erie, Pennsylvania, 1951), makes critical contributions on questions of social reality and globalization that focus on what he describes as “the imaginary and material geographies of the advanced capitalist world” and are the result of extensive research and travel. Allan Sekula is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, the Getty Research Institute, the Deutsche Akademischer Austausdienst and the Atelier Calder.
in the internet:
http://www.theforgottenspace.net/
http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/obituary/socialism-and-the-sea
http://www.cgrimes.com/artists/allan-sekula/works/
Contemporary Photography Index
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