Word: photographing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Parson School of Design. Intending to foster dialogue between Harvard artists and the New York artists, the show aims to bridge an aesthetic gap through the use of color and new printing techniques such as c-printing, silkscreen printing and digital image processing. Thus, not only are the photographs in Sampler original in terms of their subject matter and color schemes, but they also incorporate cutting-edge printing techniques. Color and technique flow together in nearly every photograph, leaving an ambiance of the old world departing, accepting its place as it melts quietly into the new, bright, technocratic 21st century...
...swankiest examples of a symbiosis between art and new technology is Harvard senior Becca Lowenhaupt's series of skyscraper lobbies. Included in each photo is a bouquet of flowers or a potted plant, always looking completely out of place. In one photograph of an elevator bank, a flower arrangement seems frozen by its stark corporate surroundings. These sterile contexts do not detract from the beauty of the flowers but instead contrast that beauty, making it suddenly strange. Each lobby also features an office functionary, frozen in the photographic frame, standing in stark Hopper-like profile. Baring her camera...
...actual morals who contemplate and search for divine truth. A simple, modest sketch of a man bowing in prayer provides a solemn contrast to elaborate paintings of wise teachers in rich robes. Sometimes there is no need for ornamentation. One particularly striking work is a black and white photograph of three ascetics, men who practice strict self-denial as a part of their spiritual discipline. Their sheet-garments are stark white, and their ribs make it painfully obvious that their spiritual devotion is unwavering. Yet they are so serene and peacefully content, one has to wonder if they know something...
...This article consists of a chart and photograph--see below...
Morell's investigation of objects led him beyond his home and into museums and libraries. While his earlier photographs framed and isolated the driftings of his household, in this series he manipulated the objects to be photographed much more actively. In one of my favorites, "Dictionary" (1994), the lens peers up at the corner of the dictionary, and, isolated from details that might confess the scale, the book looms like Giza. Commenting on the print, Morell said, "I wanted to take a photograph where a dictionary looks like a pyramid, so I sat down and figured...