Pallet for Home: Series of favorites- Photography- poetry- art- sculpture- landscape architecture and installation, video & whatever else I come up with

Series of favorites- Photography- poetry- art- sculpture- landscape architecture and installation, video & whatever else I come up with

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

I am going to be posting a series of blog posts on my favorites. Anyone who knows me knows that I have a lot of them. I love photography and first became aware of it when I began modeling at age 12 for the Ford agency in New York. I am going to do a compendium of photographers whose work that I find powerful, compelling, moving and relevant, and they are not all fashion photographers in fact very few of them are. These may not all be my favorites but I hope to do a rather comprehensive review of contemporary photography. My loosely outlined plan will go like this. Im not sure how long this will take me but I would like to explore 4-5 a week of these ideas/ critiques and previews into the work of the photographers mentioned below. Many of these photographers work I have seen recently at shows in New York or at the Venice Bianale and I have wanted to write about it for some time so here we go. This is a guide for me to follow and a kind of table of contents to organize my thoughts. These are my categories entirely and my analysis completely. The photos below are photographs from the photographers I will explore. the photograph precedes the group or pattern that I am looking at. The photographer whose work is shown is in blue

1- Vulnerability- the photographer, lover and Muse- Francesca Woodman, Edward Weston and Alfred Stieglitz

2-Vulnerability- Intimacy with the subject, muse but less lover- but the photographer is less important and present- Egoless? (Still looking for a title) Richard Learoyd, Nicholas Nixon, Emmett Gowin

3- Vulnerability- In from the inside- exposure- Documenting One's Culture and identity- Nan Goldin, Robbert Mapplethorpe, Catherine Opie

4- Vulnerability- Documenting ones family Nicholas Nixon, Emmett Gowin and Sally Mann

5- Psycholocial Profiles and Voyeristic windows- exploration of Freakshow- Photographers who are less connected to their subjects but looking in from the outside- Much less about vulnerability and more about a lens as distancing- Diane Arbus- Katie Grannan- Mary Ellen Mark

6- Narssisim meets the sacred and profane- the work of Sally Mann

7- The pornographers- Helmet Newton, Sally Mann, Peter Beard, and Andreas Serrano

8- Documenting Popular culture- Rineke Dijkstra, Lauren Greenfield & Thomas Struth

9- The Imposters- challenging cultural creation of identity and worth and art- Cindy Sherman, Yasumasu Morimura and VIk Muniz

10- Sureal Portraits- Painting with photography- Loretta Lux, Jill Greenberg and Timothy Greenfield Sanders and possibly Phillip-Lorca diCorcia

11- The Camera Obscura- Abelardo Morell and Vera Lutter

12- Portraits of Landscape- Doug Hall, Andreas Gursky, Emmett Gowin, Vik Muniz

13- Indusrial Landscapes- Edward Burtynsky, Ted Wood

14- Iconic Structures- Bernd &Hilla Becker& Julius Shulman

14- Conservation Photographers- Ansel Adams, James Balong, Ted Wood and Yann Arthus Bertrand, Elliot Porter

15- The Surrealists- constructed psychological realities- David LaChapelle, Joel-Peter Witkin, Jeff Wall

16-The Humanists- changing american culture by exposing truth- Lewis Hine, Dorthea Lange, Taryn Simon

17- Telling stories with dignity- Power of the story- suffering, war, and globalization- James Nachwey and Sebastiao Salgado

18- Juxtaposing reality and unreality- Simon Norfolk and Gregory Crewdson

19- Elemental experimentation- documenting sacred and individual experiences in the natural world- Susan Derges, Scott Johnson, Joanne Verberg, Richard Misrach