MUSÉE 29 – EVOLUTION
Evolution explores the concepts of progress, transformation, growth, and advancement in an age when images are taking a dramatic shift in the role they play in our lives.
Since Wurm's work lives primarily on a photographic record, it is natural that his aesthetic has become a source of inspiration for photographers...
"This project was started as a tribute to my mother and especially for my daughter to have evidence and remember our time together."
Dreamers is powerful and relevant, especially in light of the recent travel ban that effectively prevents Neshat from returning to Iran for the time being.
"...the most intimate of the Ghandi post-mortem scenes and the biblically-proportioned gatherings punctuated with tree-top-perched onlookers overwhelm in the instant without deliberation, as Cartier-Bresson intended"
He earned the name Weegee as an alternate spelling of Ouija, because of his preternatural ability to get to the scene,, and because ...
"Don’t let people get to your insides too quickly. But also by all means, be open to receiving love."
"...Vogue is a potent drug that women get lost in. Vogue is more than a magazine. We are making the most potent substance there is: the dream.”
"I think I'm investigating what it is about dance that is so all-consuming to us dancers and I am definitely trying to illustrate to the world (or to anyone who will look) how dance can be so very different than what the mainstream view of it is..."
I remember floating things down the Milwaukee River, then getting up on a bridge and photo- graphing them. I realized that I was positioning myself to make it look a certain way. I think I also wanted to communicate with people other than just fellow students or other people who happened to be there.
"I began with black & white photograms, but when I turned to color, with the photogram, I realized light, photography’s indexical, was radically different, the palette electrified the composition, whether it was expressed in muted tones or bolder hues. Color is an artist’s universe and photographic color theory (RGBYMC) photography’s planet."
"The American landscape is so vast. There’s so much to explore. Every summer, I would just chip away a part of America. We would hit the road and shoot for three months straight."
Our Woman Crush article is a day late -- but Eva Mueller is fabulous! Read all about her and her GenderFuck series here
Empty stare is my shield. I do not want to tell too much about myself to the viewer.
The ICP Infinity Awards 2017 were on Monday, read here for all of the amazing artists who were honored
"My own challenge was to find a visual interpretation far from any cliches you would expect of showing favelas."
Tonight is the ICP Infinity Awards 2017 Gala! Read here for a few words on two outstanding artists being honored.
