‘After Constable’ by Peter Kennard’, ‘Your Body is a Battleship’ by Barbara Kruger and ‘Pair IV’ by John Stezaker.
Studies of montage and appropriation art.
‘Chaology No.2’ by Tess Hurrell; untitled from ’The Betterment Room’ by Clare Strand and ’The Destroyed Room’ by Jeff Wall.
Studies of allegorical practice within contemporary photography.
What we’re looking at is not the same as what we should be looking for.
‘Urban Chiaroscuro 6: Paris (after Piranesi)’ (2007) by Emily Allchurch, untitled from Unfinished (2005) by Sophie Calle and ‘Fat (Prohibited)’ from Contraband (2009) by Taryn Simon.
Studies of surveillance within the modern society.
’There is no need for arm, physical violence, material constraints. Just a gaze. An inspecting gaze, a gaze which each individual under its weight will end by interiorising to the point that he is his own overseer, each individual thus exercising this surveillance over, and against, himself. A superb formula: power exercised continuously…’ - Michel Foucault (from ’The Eye of Power’ 1974)
‘After Midnight’ (2010) from Chasing Good Fortune Tokyo Imperial Memories, ‘Far Off Mountains and Rivers’ (2009) from Evaders, ‘Blow Up No. 4’ (2004) from Time After Time and ’Transparent 3’ (2004) by Ori Gersht
Ori Gersht is a Israeli born photographer, Royal College of Art graduate. What I particularly enjoy about his work is the unique means and techniques used to incorporate the issues he’s looking at in his work.
Read more about his intriguing work here and I highly suggest visiting Imperial War Museum where he’s exhibiting new video works, if you happen to be in London.
‘Dagenham Heathway’ (2004) from A Scape and Untitled (2004) from Nonsuch by Steffi Klenz.
Steffi is an emerging photographer originally from Germany who visited my university to give a guest talk last year.
I mostly enjoy her earlier series where she looks at the issues of non-places, peripheries of city and their strange relationship with reality. Check her website for more beauty and more personal projects she tends to do now.
‘h.e.k. 04’ (2000), ’nudes wr 30’ (2000), porträt (1998) and ‘17h 51min / 22°’ (1990) by Thomas Ruff.
A more contemporary artist that has been a constant inspiration for me lately - Thomas Ruff. After graduating from the influental Dusseldorf Kunstakademie his work has kept questioning the boundaries of photography and art.
‘Ema (Nude on a Staircase)’ (1966) and ’September’ (2005) by German artist Gerhard Richter.
I was lucky enough to see his retrospective exhibition at Tate Modern and be truly amazed by his different stylistics and approaches of creating art that he has mastered throughout his career.
As I’m doing just great I have agreed to contribute at the good and you? tumblr blog for the next 30 days. Feel free to follow my everyday life snapshots!
I know, I know - everyone’s been talking (virally) about this project by Belgian photographer Frieke Janssens lately but isn’t it just amazing? And when was the last time when general public was so amazed by a photographic project?
‘Crossed Paths’ from ‘Mass Media System’ developed during the International Summer School of Photography 2011 in ’Still Life as Critical Aesthetics’ workshop by Russian photographer Mark Boyarsky.
Untitled from ‘Stories from Ezersalas Speciālā Internātpamatskola’ developed during the ISSP 2010 ‘True or False? (Vrai our Faux)’ workshop by Lee Wing Ki from Thailand.
These two prints I got myself from the nice ISSP garage sale just a couple of days ago.
