…In the past several years, some curators and art historians, such as Michael Fried, have devoted much attention to photography. However, they tend to be most enamored of—or at least interested in—artists such as Jeff Wall and Andreas Gursky, who are known for their elaborately constructed or digitally manipulated photographs and who have therefore seceded, I would argue, from the traditional definition of photography, if not actually negating it…. THEORY: “The Treacherous Medium: Why Photography Critics Hate Photographs”  …orf to start teaching photography, a subject till then excluded from what was largely a painter’s academy. Many of his students have been extremely successful: Candida Hofer, Thomas Struth, Jorg Sasse and, most notably, Andreas Gursky. When Becher retired in 1996, Jeff Wall was chosen to succeed him, but when Wall came to meet the class for the first time, he was confronted by a former Becher student holding a loaded gun. Wall resigned imme… INTERVIEW: “Interview with Bernd and Hilla Becher” (2002)  …enting is extremely dull and journalism…I’m a very bad reporter and a photojournalist. Capa told me when I had an exhibition at the museum of Modern Art in ’46, he said no, he’d be very careful. You mustn’t have a label of a surrealist photographer. All my training was surrealism. I still feel very close to a surrealist but he said if you were labelled as a surrealist photographer you won’t go any further you won’t have an assignment … HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: “Words by Henri Cartier-Bresson” (1973)  …. It just simply means that I am able to think better. Let’s put it that way. AC: I read that you don’t really consider yourself an environmental portrait photographer, is that true? AN: No, I think basically I am. But I hate labels. That label was placed on me by an early writer who did an article on me calling me the father of the environmental portrait, which seems to have stuck. But the Stravinsky is not an environmental portrait, it’s really… INTERVIEW: “An Interview with Arnold Newman”  …ommon Places (1982) served as an even greater source of inspiration for the artistic strategies adopted by the next generation of photographers. The ex-hibition will investigate this influence on works by Wendelin Bottländer, Andreas Gursky, Andi Brenner, Martin Rosswog, Kris Scholz, Simone Nieweg, and Boris Becker. Stephen Shore’s influence lasted into the 1990s and can be seen in the early work of Claus Goedicke, Claudia Fährenkemper, Laurenz B… STEPHEN SHORE: “NRW-Forum Düsseldorf – Der Rote Bulli (The Red Bus)” (2010)  …phy (2010) Editors: Werner Lippert and Christoph Schaden 344 Pages Photography by Stephen Shore, Bernd und Hilla Becher, Thomas Struth, Volker Döhne, Axel Hütte, Candida Höfer, Thomas Ruff, Tata Ronkholz, Wendelin Bottländer, Andreas Gursky and more. BOOKS: NRW-Forum Düsseldorf * Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places (2005) * Joachim Brohm: Ohio (2010) * Stephen Shore: American Surfaces (2008) * Bernd and Hilla … DER ROTE BULLI (THE RED VW BUS): “On the Reception of Stephen Shore’s Work in Germany 1972-1995″ (2010)  …s Baltz, the Bechers, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore, and Henry Wessel, Jr. 37 More recently, an example of the book’s reach can be found in the work of the contemporary German photographer Andreas Gursky, whose mammoth color photographs — in physical appearance everything that Adams’s small black-and-white prints are not — dilate on the general subject of material culture in the spare presentation-style that A… ROBERT ADAMS: “Tod Papageorge on Robert Adams – The Missing Criticism – What We Bought”  …artments of painting and sculpture instead of those devoted to photography), or the grandly orchestrated lightbox tableaux of Jeff Wall—the increasing acceptance of the medium into the wider field of art. Niagara Falls, 1989, Andreas Gursky Although the Bechers’ students tend to be grouped together for the sake of art historical convenience, their respective careers reveal greater differences than similarities. Like Struth, Thomas Ruff work… “Photography in Düsseldorf”  Das NRW-Forum zeigt ausgesuchte Fotokünstler, die nach Meinung der Kuratoren Andreas Gursky, Thomas Weski, Klaus Biesenbach, Udo Kittelmann, FC Gundlach, Thomas Seelig, Andrea Holzherr und Werner Lippert in den nächsten Jahren die “State of the art photography” darstellen werden. Eine spannende Reise auf den Spuren neuer und alter Talente. Teilnehmende Künstler: Peter Ainsworth. Olaf Otto Becker. Laura Bielau. Miriam Böhm. Elina B… ASX.TV: NRW-Forum – “State of the Art Photography” (2012)  …rvance. “All things wonderful,” and perhaps captured as continuous, spiritual configurations, their photography is a powerful inspiration influencing the work of the school’s students, such as Thomas Demand, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, and Thomas Struth. Larger than neon and as hauntingly glamorous as film noir, their photographs capture another form of portraiture. Supposedly acknowledging a greater German tradition in photogr… “Getting Beyond: Is Photography a Lost Tradition?” (2006)  …ic integrity while admitting that everything he has accomplished as a creative artist depends on the participation of others. Demanding that he be seen as an artist is nothing new for Avedon; he has spent decades fighting the label “fashion photographer.” This is partly because it is important for him to claim his own identity as a photographic artist as opposed to a constantly compromised and therefore non-existent individual associa… RICHARD AVEDON: “Listening to Avedon” (1995) |
