Sunday, December 12, 2010

Miscellaneous Links

http://www.icp.org/sites/default/files/exhibition_pdfs/bodyatrisk_press.pdf


http://www.lorigrinker.com/


http://www.bobbybakersdailylife.com/news.html


Access to jstor through Auraria Library Website:





Pictures of Health: Medical Photography and the Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa Author(s): Erin O'Connor Source: Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Apr., 1995), pp. 535-572 Published by: University of Texas Press




Looking and Listening: The Construction of Clinical Knowledge in Charcot and Freud Author(s): Daphne de Marneffe Source: Signs, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Autumn, 1991), pp. 71-111 Published by: The University of Chicago Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3174446




The Feminization of Madness in Visual Representation Author(s): Jane E. Kromm Source: Feminist Studies, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Autumn, 1994), pp. 507-535 
Published by: Feminist Studies, Inc. 


Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial 2010

Look at every artists' work in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and think about each work's concept:


http://www.whitney.org/Exhibitions/2010Biennial


Then, if you want to,  post any three recent images of your own and explain the concept in each image.

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Week Eleven, Due December 2, Thursday

Week Eleven, Due December 2, Thursday
(more links to follow)





Look at all of the following artists' work and then
Select any one artist from this list:


AES+F Group
http://www.aes-group.org/

Alexander Apostol
http://www.alexanderapostol.com/02_skeletonCoast.php

Miriam Backstrom
http://www.nordenhake.com/php/exhibition.php?id=31&year=2003
http://www.renabranstengallery.com/Backstrom.html

Yto Barrada
http://www.ytobarrada.com/projects.html

Erica Baum
http://luettgenmeijer.com/images/2009/erica-baum/15_Erica_Baum.pdf
http://www.ubu.com/contemp/baum/index.html
http://theendofbeing.com/2010/03/18/bookmarking-erica-baums-dog-ear/
http://www.moussemagazine.it/articolo.mm?id=521
http://writing.upenn.edu/pepc/authors/baum/Baum-Eric_Dog-Ear_2010.pdf

Valerie Belin
http://www.valeriebelin.com/

Walead Beshty
http://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/detail/exhibition_id/84
http://www.wallspacegallery.com/gallery.html?id=144

Rut Blees Luxemburg
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/gallery/2009/mar/09/rut-blees-luxemburg-photography

Luchezar Boyadjiev
http://www.galeriefeinkost.com/feinkost/cms/website.php?id=/en/index/artists/luchezarboyadjiev.htm
(look through Image Galleries to the right)

Santiago Sierra
http://www.santiago-sierra.com/
http://www.noglobaltour.com/

Catherine Opie
http://web.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/exhibition_pages/opie/exhibition.html
http://www.regenprojects.com/artists/catherine-opie/
http://www.gladstonegallery.com/opie.asp?id=396

Yeondoo Jung
http://www.yeondoojung.com/

Sharon Core
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/in-focus-sharon-core/
http://www.yanceyrichardson.com/artists/sharon-core/index.html?page=2

Phil Collins
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/2006/philcollins.htm
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-56343.html

Anna Gaskell
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/show-list/artist/g/?search=Anna%20Gaskell
http://www.utata.org/salon/19597.php

Chris Jordan
http://www.chrisjordan.com
Post at least one image to your blog with full citation and link back to the site where you found the image.
Think about what you have read from chapters 2 - 6 in your text book.
Use theories from three different chapters to explain, from three different perspectives, how this artist's images function in contemporary culture. You can use quotes from the textbook or references from the textbook if you would like.

Then:
Post any three of your own RECENT images and explain why you selected each of the images.

Monday, November 15, 2010

Week Ten, Due November 18, Thursday

Week Ten, Due November 18, Thursday

Post any three of your own RECENT images and explain why you selected each of the images.

Monday, November 8, 2010

Week Nine, Due November 11, Thursday

Week Nine, Due November 11, Thursday

Post any three of your own RECENT images and explain why you selected each of the images.

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Week Eight, Due November 4, Thursday

Week Eight, Due November 4, Thursday


1. To further investigate Chapter 4, select any two of the following artists (use the links that follow instruction 5.). Some were mentioned in the chapter and others were not.


2. Think about the theories explained in the chapter and how those theories might relate to the artists' work.


3. Then post one image from each of the two artists with full citation and a link back to the site where you found the image.


4. Using the theories from Chapter 4 that apply to the artists' work, explain how the two artists' work is similar and how the work is different. Please be as specific as possible.


5. Then post three of your own images and explain why you chose each of the three images.


links:



Chapter 4: Michelle Henning 
The subject as object

Rineke Dijkstra:


PDF: What Does A Portrait, Human and Unsentimental, Look Like Now?


Gerhard Lang

Andre Serrano


Mapplethorpe

Tanyth Berkeley


Jack Pierson Self-Portraits

Orlan

Vanessa Beecroft
(try special projects or performances)

Inez van Lamsweerde (& Vinoodh Matadin)

del lagrace volcano

Pierre et Gilles




Allan Sekula





Additional resources to help explain Chapter 4:

Susan Sontag on Abu Ghraib
torture mimics photographic conventions



Alphonse Bertrillon



Francis Galton
Norman Bryson essay:

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Week Seven, Due October 21, Thursday

Week Seven, Due October 21, Thursday (don't forget to post week six, due Oct 14)


For this week:


1. read the critical review by Karen Rosenberg in the NYTimes that proclaims the end of theory in the “New Photography 2010” exhibit at MOMA.


2. view images of the four artists in the exhibit:


Roe Ethridge
http://www.andrewkreps.com/artists_portfolio.html?aid=54
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2010/newphotography/roe-ethridge/


Elad Lassry
http://www.davidkordanskygallery.com/?n=artists&aid=12
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2010/newphotography/elad-lassry/


Alex Prager
http://www.alexprager.com/
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2010/newphotography/alex-prager/


Amanda Ross-Ho
http://www.cherryandmartin.com/artistDetail.php?id=11
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2010/newphotography/amanda-ross-ho/

MOMA | New Photography 2010
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2010/newphotography/


3. view the work of the four artists from the “New Photography 1”  1985 exhibit.


Zeke Berman
http://zekeb.com/galleries/1980-1984/1980-1984.shtml


Antonio Mendoza
http://www.tonymendozaphoto.com/pages/stories.asp


Judith Ross
http://moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A5030&page_number=&template_id=6&sort_order=1


Michael Spano
http://www.laurencemillergallery.com/artist_spano.html
more Spano on this blog:
http://gitelson.blogspot.com/2007/05/homage-to-michael-spano.html



(1985 press release)


4. Select one image from any 2010 artist and one image from any 1985 artist. Give as complete a citation as possible with a link to the site where you located the image.


5. Write why you chose each of these two images.


6. Write what similarities you find in the two images, and what differences you can see.


7. Explain why Karen Rosenberg is wrong (based on what you have read in your textbook).


8. Post three recent images of your own and state why you selected each of the three images.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Photo IV: Week Six Due: October 14

Photo IV: Week Six Due: October 14, Thursday


Select any three contemporary artists from the following list and post one image from each of the three, with full citation and a link back to the site that has that image. Then write one element that you see in their work that in any way whatsoever, no matter how obscure or remote, relates to your work.
RYAN MCGINLEY









CAMERON JAMIE



Monday, October 4, 2010

misc

http://bombsite.com/issues/92/articles/2754
Interview with Allan Sekula in Bomb Magazine




Call for entries
Center for Fine Art Photography:
http://www.c4fap.org/cfe/2011Blue/index.asp

Blue

Blue is a color that runs deep with symbolism. One can see and feel blue. Blue has many emotional, religious, political and even gender connotations. Explore what blue symbolizes and how blue can illustrate a specific meaning without the use of words or even color. For ideas and suggestions of blue we recommend visiting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue.

JUROR:


Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb

Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb: Alex Webb became a full member of Magnum Photo in 1979. Rebecca Norris Webb is a photographer, poet and educator. Their work has been exhibited internationally been seen in numerous publications.










“For God’s sake, somebody call it!”
Has the time come to take photojournalism off life-support? After nearly 25 years in the business, agency director Neil Burgess steps forward to make the call.
http://www.epuk.org/Opinion/961/for-gods-sake-somebody-call-it


In response:
September 14, 2010, 6:00 PM

If Photojournalism Is Dead, What’s Luceo?


http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/if-photojournalism-is-dead-whats-luceo/





Thursday, September 30, 2010

Photo IV: Week Five Due: October 7, Thursday

Photo IV: Week Five Due: October 7, Thursday

Go to:

Select any three artists whose names you do not recognize and click on their name to view their work and read a blurb.

Select the image from each of the three artists to post on your blog with the full caption and a link back to the artist's page.

Read the info / brief blurb about each of the three artists that you have selected. Then briefly explain anything at all that the three artists' works have in common. Just even the slightest something will do.

Then, post three of your own images and explain why you selected each of the three images.






Friday, September 24, 2010

Photo IV: Week Four Due: September 30, Thursday

Photo IV: Week Four Due: September 30, Thursday


At the Met is an exhibition Between Here and There, Contemporary Photography. Some of the Photographers in the exhibition are listed below. Click on the names which are links or locate an image by any one, two or three artists from the list that you think has any relation whatsoever to your own work from the first project assignment. Other links to images are located within the essay by Douglas Eklund (http://www.metmuseum.org/now-at-the-met/features/2010/09/22/between-here-and-there-contemporary-photography-at-the-met.aspx). Select the image (or images) that you think relate(s) to your work for your blog, with a link back to its original on-line location, and with any relevant information available about the image. Then, explain how that image is related to your own work.


And finally post three of your own recent images and explain why you selected each of the three.


Here is the list of photographers in the exhibition:
Vito Acconci, Ed Ruscha, Richard Long, On KawaraOn Kawara, (or On Kawara), Bruce Nauman, Rineke Dijkstra, Thomas Struth, Darren Almond, Doug Aitken, (or Doug Aitken), Lothar Baumgarten, Matthew Buckingham, VALIE EXPORT, Felix Gonzalez–Torres, Svetlana Kopystiansky, Dennis Oppenheim, Allen Ruppersberg, Fazal Sheikh, Erin Shirreff, Robert Smithson, Anne Turyn, Jeff Wall, and Weng Fen.


Also of interest:
Images of War, Finally Unpacked: “The Mexican Suitcase” at the International Center of Photography features recently recovered images of the Spanish Civil War by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/arts/design/24suitcase.html