Photography and Sculpture

PHOTOGRAPHY

WALKER EVANS

Walker Evans focused on the the classic pictorial documents of America and Captured American 's Visual Reality.  He captured this Moment in Time in 1935 at Joe's Auto Graveyard, Pennsylvania.
Evan's recorded everyday life, but is best known for his work with the Farm Security Administration, documenting the effects of the Great Depression.  I own a Model A, so I love this photograph.

HENRI CARTIER BRESSON

 

 Henri Cartier-Bresson is often called "the father of photojournalism" for his photos of famous events and people from the 1930s to the 1970s. He became internationally famous as a camera artist whose specialty was capturing significant moments of human interaction.  His uncanny ability to capture life on the run made his work synonymous with “the decisive moment” and the title of his first major book.   In this 1933 photo SPANISH MOROCCO (Asilah),  he captures children playing on the beach with seaweed.

JERRY UELSMANN"S

Jerry Uelsmann is considered one of the forefathers of composite imagery and a master of darkroom composite techniques.  Using several enlargers in the darkroom, Uelsmann perfected the technique of printing images from multiple negatives to create surreal landscapes that interweave images of trees, rocks, water and human figures in new and unexpected ways as in his 1975 Untitled print Cloud Room. The artist refers not allow room for literal interpretation of his work, but rather leave the interpretation to the subject by presenting altered realities using his photography and darkroom manipulation. He uses black and white prints and is computer free.

SCULPTURE

 ROBERT ARNESON

Arneson's sculptures epitomized the 1960s and 1970s Bay Area Funk art movement, a California style of Pop-Art focusing on absurd images of everyday objects.  He transformed ceramics into a major contemporary medium.  His observation of human behavior and American culture was that men and women have an obsession with female breasts, which inspired this 1964 glazed stoneware called Breast Trophy. This piece is in the "The Smithsonian" and he drew cartoons in high school. 

JAMES TURELL

 An American artist primarily concerned with light and space, his work involves explorations in light and space that speak to viewers without words, impacting the eye, body, and mind with the force of a spiritual awakening. An example of his work is the 1985 print, Untitled from the portfolio Deep Sky showing his use of light and space.  The Roden Crater in Arizona is his greatest accomplishment, where he is turning a natural cinder volcanic crater into a massive naked-eye observatory.

ANDY GOLDSWORTHY

 Andy Goldsworthy is an environmental sculptor who uses natural surroundings to create an art form. He explores and experiments with various natural materiel such as leaves, grasses, stones, wood, sand, clay, ice, and snow. In is 1985 stones titled Broken pebbles, he uses color and shape to get beneath the surface to understand the eternal energy.  He uses photography to preserve many of his images.