Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Photography in Context: The Projected Photograph | Parsons The New School for Design

Photography in Context: The Projected Photograph | Parsons The New School for Design Tube. Duration : 119.48 Mins.


Parsons is a part of The New School, a university in New York City offering distinguished degree, certificate, and continuing education programs in art and fashion design, and the performing arts. | www.newschool.edu The Aperture Foundation, the Photography Department at Parsons The New School for Design, and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics present a new season of panel discussions focusing on photography. Speakers including George Baker, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Vice-Chair of UCLA, Department of Art History; Andrea Geyer, artist and Assistant Professor of Fine Art, Parsons The New School for Design; and artists Paul Pfeiffer and Krzysztof Wodiczko, discuss projection and installation strategies many contemporary artists have used to create immersive and cinema-like experiences in their works and exhibitions. PARSONS PHOTOGRAPHY | www.newschool.edu Contemporary artists have started departing from the large, tableau vivant treatments of the photograph, as seen in works by Jeff Wall, Andreas Gursky, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, and Gregory Crewdson. In recent years, they have employed a variety of projection devices to incorporate their photographs into temporal, audio-visual experiences, which recall cinematic contexts yet retain distinctly photographic qualities. On the surface, these works seem to meld experimental and structuralist filmmaking lineages and large-scale photographic practices prevalent in the past two decades. At the same ...

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