The shape of seeing: Ellsworth Kelly's photographs
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Ellsworth Kelly does painting and drawing besides photography, and he looks for shapes as a beginning of his photos. He is interested in how a picture frame changes the way something is seen, and fragments vision. He is also interested in how much an image changes when going from three dimensions to a two dimensional photo, so that images overlap. His photos are an attempt to capture the separateness and uniqueness of each thing in its space.
Publication Name: Aperture
Subject: Arts, visual and performing
ISSN: 0003-6420
Year: 1991
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The encompassing eye: photography as drawing
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Photography can be considered another type of drawing, which allows picture-making expectations for it similar to other art forms, rather than just an aesthetic to represent reality. The historic development of Modernism with its abstractions thus follows as a natural development of art instead of an experimental aberration of the technology. A consistent path can be followed from William Henry Fox Talbot to Man Ray to contemporary artists.
Publication Name: Aperture
Subject: Arts, visual and performing
ISSN: 0003-6420
Year: 1991
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Dark mirror: the photographs of Edvard Munch
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Edvard Munch's photographs, especially his self-portraits, were created without heed to artistic expression and reflect the personal explorations of his deeply troubled psyche. While Munch often disparaged photography as a secondary art form, he used photographs as sources for his paintings. The most stark and telling photographs are those he took of himself following a nervous breakdown.
Publication Name: Aperture
Subject: Arts, visual and performing
ISSN: 0003-6420
Year: 1996
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