XXI Century Instagram

Today almost anyone can own an iphone and download applications like Instagram that allow you to ‘add’ filters to your photos that will give them a different ‘look’ or ‘feel’ to them.
It is criticized by some for the abuse of the filters, but used by most.

Regardless, 1 thought:
These are ordinary people that enjoy using their phone to take pictures of their daily observations and not professional Photographers.

Some of the results I find are quiet amazing.

@mifjuz —————————————————————————————————————-

@rainbowgirl ———————————————————————————————————-

@sermot —————————————————————————————————————-

 

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This IS the XXI Century and Photography as we knew it HAS changed.
Here are a few others that I enjoy following:
@hollyform
@peppermint_heart

@_blemish_

@vutheara
@newklom

@jebo88

@dwpinson

@raphaelliais

@mattfrench

@markus_

Claudio Edinger – A selective focus

Why do I like something? Why are my visual senses affected in such way that I feel inspired and stimulated to create?

I needed to explore in silence and observe what was it that I really loved and changed my way to perceive beauty.
I wanted to refine my eye. Crystalize what was truly touching me.

So as a start, here he is:
Brazilian Photographer Claudio Edinger, born in 1952.
A chosen set of photographs from his wide professional archive.

 

Gabriel Orozco – Poetically Addressed

Gabriel Orozco was born in Veracruz, Mexico.
His work explores philosophical problems, such as the concept of infinity, and evokes the poetry of chance connections through found materials or situations, that he alters then photographs to create surprising and often, creating humorous scenarios from the simple quotidian means. All presented with presence, power and intellectual rigor.

Orozco pays meticulous attention to what he calls the “liquidity of things” as seen in mundane and evanescent objects and elements of everyday life—the momentary fog on a polished piano top, a deflated football, tins of cat food balanced on watermelons, light through leaves, the screech of a tire, chess pieces on a chessboard, a ball of clay, an abandoned kite.
“People forget that I want to disappoint,” he has said. “I use that word deliberately. I want to disappoint the expectations of the one who waits to be amazed. When you make a decision someone is going to be disappointed because they think they know you. It is only then that the poetic can happen.”

He is fun & his name is John Baldessari

John Baldessari is a conceptual artist who has influence many other great artists, such as: Cindy Sherman, David Salle, and Barbara Kruger among others.
His work consists of synthesizing photomontage, painting, and language into visual juxtapositions that challenge ‘conceptual art’ meaning with wit and irony.
He upends commonly held expectations of how images function, explores it in sometimes delightful, sometimes poignant and almost always surprising and inventive ways by injecting humor and dissonance into his vernacular imagery.

 

Note on Marina Abramovic’s death

When Marina Abramovic dies, she requests the following procedure, as stipulated in her last will and testament:

In case of my death I would like to have this following memorial ceremony:
Three coffins.
The first coffin with my real body.
The second coffin with an imitation of my body.
The third coffin with an imitation of my body.

I would like to appoint three persons would take care of the distribution of the three coffins in three different places in the world. (America, Europe and Asia) The special instructions will be written and put in a sealed envelope, with their names and instructions to follow.

The memorial ceremony will be held in New York City with all three coffins present and sealed. After the ceremony the appointed persons will follow my instructions for the distribution of the coffins. My wish is that all the three coffins should be buried in the earth.

Everybody at the final ceremony should be informed that they shouldn’t wear black and that every other color is encouraged. I wish that my former students… create a program for this occasion. For the beginning of the ceremony I wish that Antony from Antony and the Johnsons will sing Frank Sinatra’s song: My Way.

The ceremony should be a celebration of life and death combined. After the ceremony there will be a feast with a large cake made out of marzipan in shape and looks of my body. I want the cake to be distributed between the present people.

Marina Abrmovic. Serbian/Yugoslavian. Self proclaimed Grandmother of performance art. She explores the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind, through notorious artwork that bravely and dangerously processes/confronts pain and misery through ritual.
Here are a few images of her work:

Luis Barragán

LUIS BARRAGAN (1902-1988) was one of Mexico’s most influential 20th century architects.

He is regarded as one of the major figures on the international stage of architecture. With the Pritzker Prize in 1980 Barragan achieved international recognition and acclaim for his poetic architectural style. The buildings and landscape projects that he had realized, all of which are in Mexico, exemplify his ability to fuse the structural tenets of traditional Mexican architecture with the vocabulary of modernism. The result is at once intensely Mexican and thoroughly universal.

Barragan’s influences were shaped by the Moorish architecture of Southern Spain, the domestic architecture of the Mediterranean, the gardens of Ferdinand Bac, the theories of Frederick Kiesler, the writings and theories of Le Corbusier and Marrocan architecture.

His early works reflected an ‘International Style’. However, in 1945 the ideas generated by his travels through Europe and abroad formed his own sense of Mexican “regionalism” synthesized into a personal design style, which is the ‘Barragan Style’ we all know today.

 

 

No face Yi Hsin Tzeng

YI HSIN TZENG collects large amounts of international commercial images from her daily visual environment. The action of altering and appropriating not only establishes her regurgitated aesthetics but also proclaims a regained control of the image.
She see herself as a loyal painter, who looks for various media and approaches to fulfill her intention. Her current work mainly investigates the shape and the color of human desire by the approach of combining found images or objects with the playful mark-making. This body of work usually presents in the form of organic liquid, which she name “Flows.” “Flows” not only represent the invisible relationship between figures, but also projects her grotesque fantasies or cynical comments towards the use and iconography of images. Under this colorful sugar-coated appearance, she tries to establish a regurgitated aesthetic, an ambiguous paradise—seductive, disturbing, sweet and humorous at the same time.

Blocks of reality ?

Philipp Schaerer :

He says …..
” The rapid development of computer and information technology has fundamentally changed the relationship between image and architecture as well as their perception. In addition to the conventional types of mostly abstract images used until now in the design and planning phases – sketches, plans, elevations or axonometric drawings – a new type of image is now being used: a digitally created image that appears to be a photograph. In the context of architecture, this type of image has until now exclusively been associated with the image of built architecture. Now, it is increasingly used to let something appear real which has yet to be built. This leads to confusion and challenges the claim to reality of images that appear to be photographs.

The focus of my work does not lie in the meticulous reproduction of photographic images. The question is rather how images which appear to be photographs are perceived and how the relation between appearance and reality, truth and arrangement can be described. ” …..