Here is an example of my current working practice whereby I am concerned with the questions of representation and reproduction in photography. The image is a flattened JPEG of a 10 colour screen print separation. The colours used in the print are in no way representative of the colour in the original photograph but once printed clearly represent the organic nature of the image. In my working practice I intend to explore the dichotomy between […]
In a recent article by Ben Lerner in The New Yorker (2016) about the Whitney’s replication committee Lerner gives account of the adjacent pictured 3D printed sculpture by Josh Klien, it is part of a series of printed sculptures made by Kline where he interviewed and scanned real janitors and subsequently made these 3D printed sculptures from the scans. The interesting point made in Lerner’s article is that the resolution of the scans are […]
Bolt opens this investigation into art beyond representation with a particularly poignant statement which resonates loudly with regards my research: ‘Art is a representational practice and its products are representations’ (2010). Upon reading this I quickly scanned and printed out the first 2 chapters of this book in order to be freely able to annotate as I read. The image shown here is one such page, I have been reading and gathering in this manner […]
So today I drew a Venn Diagram, its kind on naff but I think it illustrates my current thoughts on my pathway through this MA in a fairly succinct way. I intend to build upon these ideas in order to plan my oral presentation and map out the research I wish to undertake throughout the course of this MA.
This is an interesting discussion of Yeves Klien’s Anthropometries. As I have already looked at Klien’s previous performance based photographic montages, this work broadens my understanding of the challenging nature of Klien’s work. Tate. (2013) TateShots: Yves Klein – Anthropometries. [online video] Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj9nHa7FtQQ [Accessed 29th Dec 2015]
I came across the exhibition catalog for The painting of modern life: 1960s to now whilst researching in the library today. The exhibition was held at the Hayward Gallery, London 2007 and later installed at the Castello di Rivoli, Museeum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy in 2008. Featuring 22 artist painters whose work deals with representation in modern life the exhibition presents an interesting framework from which to explore my research aims and objectives. (2007) The 22 artists […]
This is an interesting short video of Vilém Flusser speaking in an interview with Miklós Peternák on 17th October 1991 about the history of knowledge the consequence of the arrival of photography. languagevirus. (2009) Vilém Flusser on History, Science & the Photograph. [Online Video] Available From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lUhFpdw8YQ [Accessed 19th Dec 2015]
This post on the Photographer’ Gallery blog is an incredibly interesting and timely piece of writing by the course leader of MA Photography at Central Saint Martins and editor of the journal Philosophy of Photography, Dr Daniel Rubinstein. http://thephotographersgalleryblog.org.uk/2015/07/03/what-is-21st-century-photography/ The issues raised here by Rubinstein demonstrate with articulation and clarity the feelings of many working in the medium of Photography in the 21st century. By drawing particular attention to the controversy surrounding photography’s perceived duty to uphold […]
Today I discovered information about an exhibition held at the MOMA in New York titled ‘Staging Action: Performance in Photography since 1960′ Organized by Roxana Marcoci, Curator, and Eva Respini, Associate Curator, Department of Photography. The Exhibition ran from January 28-May 9, 2011. On first discovering this exhibition I felt it to be of importance to my research, so I have been attempting to find out more and hopefully find a copy of the exhibition catalog somewhere, […]
These portraits I made of the musician and producer, Haxan Cloak, put me in mind of my recent research into the portraits made by Gerhard Richter. Richter. In Stefan Gronert’s 2006 book titled Gerhard Richter Portraits, Gronert references Ernst Buschors’s classical definitions of portraits and Richtor’s non conformity to such values in saying: “Gerhard Richter’s portraits clearly refuse to be captured within the two classical alternitive catogories of “internal” or “External” portraits, as Ernst Bushor described the […]
Rebecca Cleal 