ArtBabble: Photography

Rineke Dijkstra: Almerisa Series

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 19:09:10 +0000

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Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective
June 29–October 8, 2012

This video focuses on Rineke Dijkstra's series of portraits of Almerisa, whom the artist met as a child in a refugee center for Bosnian asylum seekers in the Netherlands. Dijkstra and Almerisa each describe the experience of taking their first photograph together and discuss how the series has evolved over the course of Almerisa's life as she grows from a young Bosnian girl into a Dutch woman with her own child.

Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 18:56:57 +0000

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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective
June 29–October 8, 2012

Still Pushing our Buttons: Mass Photography in the Electronic Age

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:17:04 +0000

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Indianapolis Museum of Art

Technological breakthroughs are usually as much revelations as revolutions, satisfying powerful latent demands. Twentieth-century people embraced mobility, economy, lightness, spontaneity, rapid feedback and sharing with friends and family. Supplanting earlier miniature cameras, the 21st-century cell phone camera has delivered all those qualities. Like the Polaroid and the cheap film camera, it offers a distinctive look that appeals even to some professionals. And it has also amplified anxieties about photography: security, privacy, and intellectual property.

A Conversation with the Curators about Snapshot: Painters and Photography

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:45:23 +0000

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Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard

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Indianapolis Museum of Art

Join Ellen W. Lee, Wood-Pulliam Senior Curator at the IMA; Elizabeth Easton, Director of the Center for Curatorial Leadership; Eliza Rathbone, Chief Curator of The Phillips Collection; and Edwin Becker, Head of Exhibitions at the Van Gogh Museum, for an informal discussion exploring the artists' intriguing experiments with snapshot photography.

Paul Messier: A Photograph, a Camera, and the Cultural Moment

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:01:03 +0000

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Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard

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Indianapolis Museum of Art

What can we tell about a photograph by knowing about the camera used to make it? The painters featured in the IMA exhibition Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard were experimenting with the newest technology of their era; the photos they made were created in a highly charged creative atmosphere, buoyed by the democratization of the camera and the birth of amateur photography.

Vuillard and the Photograph

The Jewish Museum, New York — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:51:27 +0000

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The Jewish Museum, New York

Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940
The Jewish Museum, New York
May 4 - September 23, 2012
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/vuillard

Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard Trailer

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:53:23 +0000

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Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard

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Indianapolis Museum of Art

The invention in 1888 of the first manageable, easy-to-use camera for amateurs made spontaneous photography possible: the snapshot was born. What role did photography play in the lives of artists of the period and how did it influence their work? The exhibition Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard sheds a light on this creative process, presenting 200 photographs and 60 paintings, prints and drawings from seven artists

Tasayac, Half Dome, 4967 Ft., Yosemite

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:40:35 +0000

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Indianapolis Museum of Art

One day in early July 1861, Carleton Watkins set up his cumbersome camera along the Merced River and aimed it eastward up the Yosemite Valley toward Tasayac, or Half Dome, a peak that towered a half mile above the valley floor. In that instant, Watkins captured for the first time what millions of park visitors would subsequently shoot from that same vantage point.

Looking West

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:38:54 +0000

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Indianapolis Museum of Art

Over the period 1870 to 1945 the American West became an increasingly popular sketching ground for eastern artists. The first arrivals were view-painters like Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran whose panoramic paintings, reproduced as chromolithographs, brought the unimagined majesty of the Rockies and Sierras to a broad eastern audience. They were followed by reportorial artists such as Frederic Remington and the photographer Edward Curtis intent on preserving artistically and romantically the disappearing frontier and Native American culture.

Catherine Opie: Season 6 Preview (April 2012)

Art21 — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:39:59 +0000

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Art21: First Look

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Art21

In this preview from the "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 6 episode, "Change," artist Catherine Opie discusses her on-going series, "Girlfriends," during a photo shoot for the series with swimmer Diana Nyad in her Los Angeles studio.

"Change" premieres Friday, April 13, 2012 at 9:00 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings).

For more information on Catherine Opie, please visit:
http://www.art21.org/artists/catherine-opie