All Things Art & Photography
Dogs wait for us. That’s just what they do. With cinematic lighting and sometimes borrowing from the great Film Noir lighting directors of old, Martin Usborne works hard getting his images for Dogs in Cars just right. See why an Instagram mentality just can’t get the job done in this wonderful series about the waiting game of lonely canines.
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Diasec is a patented process used for face-mounting Chromogenic prints to plexiglass and became very popular in the 1990’s by artist such as Andreas Gursky. C-prints fade whether they are mounted to plexiglass or not. Plexiglas just adds more complications. Because of this I switched to more permanent processes but many very well known artists continue to use this long out of date technology which is a puzzle for me to no end. C-print Mounted to Plexiglass & the Issues with Fading is a huge concern you need to pay attention to.
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Gursky was one of the first artists to make oversized c-prints. “If you were going to make big colour prints in the early 1990s, you had to do it chromogenically,” says Wilson. “Inkjet printing was just not good enough then.” Because c-prints on this scale are relatively recent it is only now that collectors and conservators are starting to understand fully the challenges of maintaining such works.
Another issue with Gursky’s work is that each image is face-mounted; a layer of Plexiglass is placed on top of the image and, in effect, the picture is fused to it. Conservators say they do not yet know if this process, which gives photographs a slick, wet look, accelerates degradation. Plexiglass is also sensitive and scratches easily. Because the image is fused to it, it cannot be replaced the way a layer of glass would be.
All about time, memory and the power of snapshots in our lives Dear Photograph has taken one simple idea and made it into an anonymous, crowd sourced art collective of staggering implications regarding being human and our fleeting time on earth.
Hands down one of the most interesting web sites out there.
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Maybe the most important exhibitions of this decade. James Turrell is the master of creating exquisite and ethereal beauty out of pure ambient light. Legend has it that his installation at the Stedelijk Museum dropped people to their knees. These are extremely rare and complicated works. You best run (don’t walk) to these once in a lifetime events.
James Turrell: A Retrospective explores nearly fifty years in the career of James Turrell (b. 1943, Los Angeles), a key artist in the Southern California Light and Space movement of the 1960s and 70s. The exhibition includes early geometric light projections, prints and drawings, installations exploring sensory deprivation and seemingly unmodulated fields of colored light, and recent two-dimensional work with holograms. One section is devoted to the Turrell masterwork in process, Roden Crater, a site-specific intervention into the landscape just outside Flagstaff, Arizona, which will be presented through models, plans, photographs, and films.
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A diverse and complicated body of work. Check out the gowns in boxes that feel like coffins…
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at Edwynn Houk Gallery via: http://dlkcollection.blogspot.com/
Valérie Belin’s haunting photographs keep us guessing