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[Read more…] about Before and After: Treatment allows Cecil Beaton’s photographs to be exhibited
[Read more…] about Before and After: Treatment allows Cecil Beaton’s photographs to be exhibited
A photograph is commonly understood to act as a window, crystallizing a subject or moment in time. Artist Marco Breuer, however, subverts this traditional understanding of the medium, exploring the inherent limitations of photographic materials rather than using them to record the world outside. His work employs radical techniques that do not rely on the use of a camera, aperture, or film, and investigates the potential of the photograph as an object unto itself, beyond its ability to represent notions of external reality. [Read more…] about Marco Breuer on the photograph as object
New York-based artist Penelope Umbrico’s photographic works explore the relationships between modern technology and professional photography, the widespread availability and consumption of internet images. [Read more…] about Artist Penelope Umbrico finds photographic inspiration in the digital age
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