Tuesday, 13 May 2014
Sunday, 20 April 2014
Holly King
….enchanting wordily beauty, intimate work exposed, mystery and delicately
transpired….
Is
it a painting? Or is it computer art, a frozen film image, or a
photograph? They are indeed photographs, and I find myself wondering
if these images are fiction or real? These enchanting beautiful
earthly worlds hold mystery in the absence of human and animals.
Worlds suspended in time within echoes of the powerful forces of
nature. The artist has captured a temporal spirit, and this,
phenomenally is, the non-fictional part of the work, and a convincing
reality.
The
artist is Holly King, a photographer, a Montrealer. Her authentic
photographs are enlarged and skillfully lit. Her miniatures are
transformed into worlds, insinuating and depicting some epic of
nature.
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| Beyond, 2001 |
King
can build everything on a table and construct a modest set from tacky
things, she then, magically transform it into fantastic delicacies. She uses
gels on the lights, very strong lights. A powerful intimacy is in
display with her work. I see sculpting, painting, setting, all under the
compass of photography, to be exploited into big intriguing prints of 6 ft by 8 ft.
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Blossoms
in Flight (2002)
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King's
work can be found in prestigious private art galleries, fine art
museums in Canada (MMFA) , as well as private international
collections. I hear she has a huge landscape going at Montreal's
Concordia University where she is an academic professor.
Sunday, 30 March 2014
JoAnn Verburg (assignment # 6)
Photographer
JoAnn Verburg pairs her images from various points, capturing visual echoes of live
performance.
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| Hero (Crucifixion). 2011 |
“'Performance disappears as you look at it,' she is quoted...'It is unique and unrepeatable, and each viewer who sees it sees it from a different vantage point and therefore has a different experience from every other viewer' (NYT).”
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| Hero (Superman), 2011 |
Verburg
is a veteran in doing multiple-image and extending the frame. Her husband, Jim Moore, has long been one her subjects. He is a poet who
has charmingly written on his experience on being a constant subject.
Moore also offers us, a poem on it, at:
“Verburg explains that, in the centre image he seems to share the same time and place with the viewer. 'Finally, in the third photo, on the right, he engages the viewer in the present tense.'she said (NYT).”
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| 3 x Jim, 1989 |
Verburg
maybe found in Minneapolis or in Florida, but generally in Italy where she
and her husband spend extended periods of time.
Diptych of a
gnarled olive tree, Tango/Tangle, 1999, from the
series“Exploding Triptych, 2000”
Spoleto, Italy.
“The
5-by-7 view camera Ms. Verburg uses to photograph olive trees is
designed with the lens mount and the film holder connected to each
other with an accordion-like bellows. They are traditionally parallel
to each other so that every detail during exposure is given equal
focus. The bellows enables Ms. Verburg to tilt the lens and the film
away from each other to alternate the focus within an exposure or, as
she said, to extend “space within the image.
'When
I’m under the darkcloth working, what I’m doing is a little like
what I used to do with clay or wire when I studied sculpture:
torquing the image and squeezing it and stretching it into being more
lively or wacky or improbable...'
To create a stable horizon line from one image to the next, she uses tracing paper on the ground glass, drawing the horizon line in the first exposure so that she can align the second, third and fourth, maintaining a continuity that adds to the sense of movement (NYT).”
“Living —
being alive — is a present-tense enterprise.”
Citing
Tuesday, 18 March 2014
aasignment # 6
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At last some sunshine!! Welcomed on march 18, 2014 |
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| Hours with photoshop exercise, a tribute to Picasso |
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| PicassoArtist: Pablo Picasso
Completion Date: 1912
Gallery: Musée Picasso, Paris, France
http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/pablo-picasso/guitar-i-love-eva-1912
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hurting & working
working & hurting
breaking broken
Monday, 10 March 2014
Pierre Choiniere (assignment # 5)
This
short blog recalls a time in my life, in fashion
consciousness, of the 80's. In research for photographs that can support this Assignment # 5, I came to be reacquainted with an artist who captured women's essence as art subject and as audience.
The renowned international art-photographer is Pierre Choiniere, who resides in Montreal.
He was born in 1958 in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec and attended School of
Modern photography in Manhattan, New York, “where several famous
artists, including the famous portraitist Yousuf Karsh, taught him
the love of photography” (hebdopress).
Choiniere quickly made his
debut in photography decoration and architecture. In Canada he is
considered a pioneer in Quebec fashion photography, and who launched
visual life to Clin d’œil and Elle Québec magazines.
In 1988 he
moved to Paris and established himself within the super-powerhouses
of advertizing and fashion industry.
Choiniere now resides in
Montreal where he exhibits his exquisite contemporary art work of
personal photo-journalistic projects on his travels in Morocco and
Mongolia.
Espace
40 Mile End
is his gallery, inspired by passionate artists that create external
artistic events. Choiniere has a published book Paraffine,
in which reveals the world of the Amira Bougies plant in Marrakech,
supported by his stunning photographs.
There is a so much more about
Choiniere, so don't be surprise if his name pops up in many top-photographer lists.
Citing
Thursday, 6 March 2014
Tuesday, 18 February 2014
Assignment # 3 Self Portrait
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77 years of ages  Shaking it Loose in Slowing the Shutter Walking Fast for 10-Second-TimerBut should I loosen up?............ YES!!!!! with Canon EOS 60, Canon EFS 18 - 135 mm lenze, & Manfrotto tripod |
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