Creative Angst (2011)
Mark Tedeschi
Artist Statement:
Patricia Harry is an abstract artist whose astoundingly evocative work has the power and energy of a much younger artist. A long time teacher at the Canberra Art School, she is now a full-time painter following her own idiosyncratic interest in colour, paint and gesture. I love this image because it captures the angst and emotional trauma that goes into producing one of her paintings.
Jorge Luis Borges
A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai) (1993)
Jeff Wall
transparency in light box, unique state
250 x 397
After ‘Invisible Man’ by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue (1999-2000)
Jeff Wall
transparency in light box, AP
174 x 250.5
National Botanic Gardens, Canberra
“Alan Belcher has produced new work for this exhibition, a ceramic multiple edition. Known for his pioneering of the “photo-object_ genre (artworks which fused the disciplines of photography and sculpture); he has furthered that exploration with a multiple series of what can be seen as perhaps the ultimate “photo-object”. Belcher has taken the ephemeral nature of the universal jpeg, and solidified its default icon into a standard image surrogate. The edition entitled “______.jpg” was fabricated in China, is a series of 125 pieces each signed and dated.” 25 Years of Talent at Marianne Boesky Gallery, curated by Michelle Grabner May 2 - Jun 16, 2012.
Rineke Dijkstra - Beach Portraits, 1992-1996
“The photographer took pictures from adolescents on the beach. She wants to show the viewer the real face of the subject. Like in this example, we see a girl from Poland. Her pose corresponds with Venus from Botticelli. She’s a little bit shy, she doesn’t know how to act before the camera. It’s that very moment, when the mask is falling off, that the picture is taken. The real person is visible.”
America in Crisis in the 1970s | In Focus
As the 1960s came to an end, the rapid development of the American postwar decades had begun to take a noticeable toll on the environment, and the public began calling for action. In November 1971, the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a massive photo documentary project, called DOCUMERICA, to record these changes. More than 100 photographers were hired not only to document specific environmental issues, but to capture images of everyday life, showing how we interacted with the environment and capturing the way parts of America looked at that moment in history. By 1974, more than 80,000 photographs had been produced. The National Archives has made 15,000 of these images available, and I’ve spent much of the past week combing through those to bring you these 46 glimpses of America in the early 1970s, with an eye toward our then-ailing environment.
2 clouds. (by notsogoodphotography)
