Gilles Barbier

The hospice  2002

Mixed media, sound and television (live shows), Various sizes

Details:

 http://www.documentsdartistes.org/artistes/barbier/repro2.html

Carl Kleiner

Carl Kleiner
3 of his series that I enjoy

Sex

Kaleido / 01

Pressure / 1

 

Project 2: Following the Rules

Project Description: Setting up objects for the camera that is dictated by a set of rules.

Conceptual Concerns: Find a new way to create art objects

Technical Skills Covered: Color Correction

Formal Guidelines:

Quantity: 6 images
Final presentation format: 20 x 30 color digital prints

Artistic References: Carl Kleiner
Grade: How successful the project is

The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington: Picturing the Promise

I just got this book from the library. I've only thumbed through it so far. I am becoming more invested in learning about the history and present contributions of African Americans in photography.

In 1911 Addison Scurlock opened a photography studio in Washington, D.C., and went on to chronicle the aspirations and ambitions of the black community into the 1990s. Later joined by his sons, Robert and George, themselves all part of the rising middle class of segregated Washington, Scurlock recorded the finer moments of black life—portraits of wealth and comfort, celebrations of marriages and new homes, political and social achievements. As the city changed and grew, with the black population swelling, the Scurlocks chronicled the growth and later decline of black businesses, the change from a middle class forced to develop its own institutions within a segregated society to an influx of poor migrants from the South with less connection to those institutions, and the social and political tumult wrought by the civil rights movement. Photographs include the famous (Marian Anderson, Duke Ellington, Ralph Bunche, W. E. B. DuBois, and Muhammad Ali) as well as the influential but perhaps less well known (business owners, churchgoers, civic leaders, members of high society). With more than 100 images, this book is a proud celebration of a vibrant community from the early to the late twentieth century. --Vanessa Bush

 Biography:

Born in Fayetteville, N.C., he graduated from high school there, and in 1900, moved with his family to Washington, D.C. Young Scurlock began his career as a photographer as an apprentice to Moses P. Rice, who had studios on Pennsylvania Avenue. By 1904, he learned the basics of photographic portraiture and the entire range of laboratory work. That same year, he started his own business at his parents’ home on Florida Avenue.

He photographed students at Howard University, M Street, Armstrong high schools, Black universities, and high schools throughout the South. In 1907, he won a gold medal for photography at the Jamestown Exposition. He opened the Scurlock Studio in the African-American community’s theater district in 1911, and concentrated on portraiture and general photography. His clients included brides, successful people, politicians and presidents, convention guests, and socialites. A 1976 Washington Post article by Jacqueline Trescott read, "For years one of the marks of arriving socially in black Washington was to have your portrait hanging in Scurlock’s window."

In addition to studio portraits, he mastered the use of the panoramic camera and shot conventions, banquets, and graduations. By the 1920s, he had earned a national reputation. He was the official photographer of Howard University until his death in 1964, and he recorded all aspects of university life.

Scurlock also produced a series of portraits of African-American leaders that historian Carter G. Woodson distributed to African-American schools nationwide. One of his most significant photographs was that of Marion Anderson singing in front of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939.  A famous story told about him is that while shooting President Coolidge with the Dunbar Cadet Corp on the White House Lawn, he walked up to the president and moved him to another position for the sake of a better picture, much to the dismay of the Secret Service.

Scurlock and his wife, Mamie Estelle, lived just a few blocks from the studio with their four sons — Addison, Robert, George, and Walter. Mamie served as the studio’s business manager. From 1948 until 1952, Robert and George managed the Capital School of Photography. Among their students were future Washington Post photographers and a young Jacqueline Bouvier who became the wife of John Kennedy.

As founder of the Scurlock Photographic Studio, he took portraits of such notables as educators Booker T. Washington and Mary McLeod Bethune, composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, engineer Archie Alexander, political leader W.E.B. DuBois, former first lady Mamie Eisenhower, singer Billy Eckstine, physician Charles R. Drew, opera singer Madame Lillian Evanti, and poet Sterling Brown while documenting key moments in Washington, D.C. history. In 1964, Robert bought the Scurlock studio from his father and purchased a studio on Connecticut Avenue.

The Connecticut Avenue studio closed in the early 1970s and the 9th Street studio was demolished in 1983 for the Metro system. Addison Scurlock died on December 16, 1964 at the age of 81.

Addison Scurlock

Exhibition

Portraits of a City

National Museum of African American History and Culture

Scenes from the Past

My Experimental Project

Inspiration ... what I like and/or obsessed with

• 29 Palms
• Battlestar Galactica
• Bear McCreary
• Breaking Bad
• Call of Duty/video games/ps3
• Deborah Willis
• Dexter
• Dystopian societies - 1984, etc
• DOMO!
• HD quality
• Horror movies
• Joss Whedon
• Photography and art
• Pixar movies
• Quentin Tarantino
• Rx Bandits
• Science Fiction - including Star Trek
• Ska!!
• TV and Film

Fun with Peanuts

Mr. Blue, Mr. Blonde, Mr. White, Mr. Orange, Mr. Pink, Mr. Brown

Carrie Mae Weems - The Kitchen Table Series

A simple kitchen table and an overhead lamp serve as the setting for the mother-daughter drama played out in Carrie Mae Weems’s untitled triptych. These pictures form a chapter of her larger Kitchen Table Series, a cinematic grouping of twenty photographs that stars the artist in an invented love story that revolves around a woman’s identity in relation to her male partner and child. Weems, known for her sometimes biting use of humor, employs narrative structures, a choreographed cast of props and characters, and a variety of media to explore and explode stereotypes of race and gender. Her resulting photographs, videos, and installations usually reconfigure old photographs, sculptures, and artifacts that comprise the physical record of African American culture in order to make new works that comment on racism and difficult topics seldom addressed in mainstream media.

Carrie Mae Weems was born in Portland, Oregon in 1953. She received her BA from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia (1981), her MFA from the University of California, San Diego (1984), and studied in the Graduate Program in Folklore at the University of California at Berkeley (1984-87). Since then Weems has been active as a teacher and an artist, and is the recipient of numerous fellowships and residencies. Weems’s photographs have been exhibited in one-person exhibitions at the Dakar Biennia, Dakar, Senegal; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

http://www.nathanielturner.com/carriemaeweems.htm
http://www.jackshainman.com/dynamic/exhibit_artist.asp?ExhibitID=89
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/carrie-mae-weems/
http://video.pbs.org/video/1281748949/

40th Anniversary of Sesame Street

New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape

October 25, 2009–January 3, 2010 @ LACMA

LINK

Artists led talks through the exhibit on Sunday at 2. You have to get there around 1 to get the ticket. There were only 40 available today, but I was still able to walk through :)

November 8 - Amir Zaki
November 15 - Peter Holzhauer
November 22 - Shannon Ebner
December 6 - Kin Stringfellow
December 13 - Catherine Opie

Exhibition Symposium: Saturday, November 7 @ 11am .... This Saturday

What's at Stake? New Topographics: Photography and the Man-Altered Landscape

This program investigates the issue of restaging the groundbreaking 1975 exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man Altered Landscape with regard to curatorial practice, urbanism, evironmentalism, and architecture. $5 with student ID

Artists: Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore, and Henry Wessel, Jr.

Robert Adams

Lewis Baltz

Bernd and Hilla Becher

Joe Deal

Frank Gohlke

Nicholas Nixon

John Schott

Stephen Shore

Henry Wessel, Jr.

Changed my layout

I have to re add all my links

Art:21 - An-My Le http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/le/index.html
Charlie White http://www.charliewhite.info/
Digital Photography Review http://dpreview.com/
Ed Ruscha
Engadget
Facebook
faukzilla
Fecal Face
Fine Arts - UT @ Austin
George Eastman House - Photography Collections Online: http://www.geh.org/
Gizmodo
Grad Program @ UT Austin
James Nachtwey
Mark Ruwedel
Museum of Contemporary Photography (MOCP)
Notebook Review
Photoshop Contest @ Gizmodo
Scott McFarland
Shirt.Woot
SprayGraphic
Wim Wenders

Image collections for Project 1

Images that I did not use: