drawing and photography

An ongoing repository of my unstructured thoughts and references to valued contributions to the arts of Drawing, Photography and Print that will be structured into coherent  presentations.

Chuck Close

Close works from photographs that he takes of his sitters in nearly every case the head is viewed frontally, like a driver’s license photograph or even a mug shot. His subject is not the sitter, but a photograph of the sitter.  This makes an important difference : photographs stop time, if only for a second, and the resulting images continually experimented with through new and varied techniques.

Chuck close MCA

Chuck Close at ARTSY.

http://www.moma.org/collection/artists/1156

http://www.artbook.com/0870700669.html

David Hockney Secret Knowledge

http://www.thamesandhudson.com/Secret_Knowledge/9780500286388

http://www.believermag.com/hockney/lookingglass/

Reading

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Photography-Matters-Never-Before/dp/0300136846

Resources

MOMA simple nicely designed onine descriptions of printmaking

http://www.moma.org/interactives/projects/2001/whatisaprint/flash.html

Good printmaking resource / feed

https://www.facebook.com/Art-Printmaking-539288466158348/?fref=nf

WalkerEvans

Hidden Camera Photography on the Subway

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/31arts/review-photography-wht-walker-evans-saw-on-his-subway-rides-html

http://uk.pininterest.com/jhale49/many-are-called-walker-evans/

‘Labour Anonymous’

http://davidcampany.com/walker-evan-the-magazine-work

http://christopheagou/life-below

Gerhard Richter

8 nurses

https://www.gerhard-richter.com/en/art/paintings/photo-paintings/death-9/eight-student-nurses-5770

48 pictures

https://www.gerhard-richter.com/en/art/paintings/photo-paintings/portraits-people-20/48-portraits-franz-kafka-1883-1924-13369

https://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/artists/gerhard-richter/6849/