Yet another blog about McGinley. He always just falls into place on here.
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Showing posts with label ryan mcginley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ryan mcginley. Show all posts
March 11, 2011
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November 7, 2010
Cole Rise
This young photographer is universally unknown. Some of his works resemble the widespread 'hipstamatic' app that warps images used only really on social media sites. Blurred or darkened vignette edges and grainy definition are key indicators of these photoshopped qualities. I understand that it often adds aesthetic appeal to each image by digital alteration, but does it add credibility to the artist as well? Or are these not photographic qualities attainable by anyone? Does photoshop help or hinder a photographers work? I would say that obvious alterations of originals shows the artist's incapability of capturing that particular moment without help. Although, I do appreciate the democracy of programs that can allow 'Anyone to be a photographer'. It only makes it difficult then in the deciding of who is a fine art contemporary photographer and who is not. Or does that matter? Who decides if all photographers end up altering their originals to look the same anyways?
Some of Cole Rise's other photographs resemble either Ansel Adams' mystical landscapes that classically recede into time and space (often a lone tree or fading road in the black and white distance), or Ryan McGinley's air-bourne subject tendencies (which I love for its originality, but not those hundreds of photographers who have since copied the fall).
However, Rise's photographs that do not hold any of these classic pop cultural propensities, are very appealing. Yes, I am quick to judge his work, but I would not have posted anything on Rise's work if I did not see potential in many images (SUBJECTIVE!). As well, I have a bad tendency to compare everything to something. I am trying hard to not compare and judge against what I already know, but it is a difficult habit to get out of.
Like everyone in pop culture these days, I am seriously drawn to astronomy. This is a beautiful photograph for that reason.
November 2, 2010
David Benjamin Sherry
Its all very scientific looking. I wonder if I am drawn to Sherry's work because of this. Throughout all of my education, I thought that I wanted to be in science somehow. At first it was a doctor, then a volcanologist, and then a oceanographer.. What happened? I guess I got lost in the chemistry of science. Literally, the chemistry aspect. Molecules and how they rotate amongst eachother doesn't interest me as much anymore. All of these images below do bring back some form of science memories though. Whether refracting and reflecting light through prisms in physics labs, growing stalagmites and stalagtites on strings in chemistry class, or playing with sparklers and electric plasma balls in the dark... science reminds me of my youth in many ways.
The lighting on the cave photograph is very Ryan McGinley. I wonder who started the fad. Most of David's work is sexual, whether obvious in form, or more subtle in title. As curator, I decided not to use those for no reason besides wanting to show these. Even here you could stretch your sexual imagination and say that the caves are very phallic-like, the three points of a triangle represent women sexually, and the sparklers show explosions of energy and light...I suppose that was not so difficult.
So, scientific and subtly sexual then.
Check out more of his works @ www.davidbenjaminsherry.com.
October 24, 2010
Dash Snow
Dash Snow is renowned and idolized by some and virtually unknown by others. He is remembered as a controversial pop-cultural icon, a brilliant photographer, an underground street artist, a successful New York contemporary artist, an intense friend and father, and as a rebellious socialite and member of high society in the arts. "He embodied everything that I wanted to photograph and everything that I wanted to be: irresponsible, reckless, carefree, wild, rich" - Ryan McGinley. However subtle or obvious his influence, Dash Snow has greatly impacted art and popular culture today. Snow’s prolific Polaroid series documents his rebellious youth in a grimy, yet simultaneously glamourous way. Because his lifestyle is displayed in his works, Snow’s polaroids offer an unbiased view into Manhattan’s underground nightlife. Arguably, his work presents the deterioration of New York high society in favour capturing the realness of each moment.
"We were always taking photos. We loved to document our adventures and then compare them later. He carried his Polaroid camera everywhere. His photos were from the heart--he had a loving obsession with taking photographs. I always assumed he shot Polaroids because he had the worst case of ADD you could ever imagine. I think even waiting a minute for the image to develop was hard for him" - Ryan McGinley.
Images from Vice Magazine donated by Ryan McGinley
RIP
May 8, 2010
Ryan McGinley
I saw Ryan McGinley's Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere opening show recently in New York. It was an amazing event. I honestly think that it was a historical art event. Hundreds and hundreds of young art lovers, collectors, artists, socialites, and hipsters alike drank in the street, while the rest tried to push their way into the tiny gallery. The street was packed with people waiting to get a glimpse of the top young photographer's latest endeavours. Cameras were flashing. People were laughing and chatting over beers. Everyone was in awe of his nude portraits of friends, models, and socialites hanging up on the white walls. He had a couple massive photographs from his Moonmilk collection. Knowing me, those were my favourites.... here are some.
The images below represents photographs that are typical of Ryan's style. Of course, I picked my favourites as usual. A lot of his work are of young nudes in mid-fall either into water, off rolling hills, into sand dunes, or in mid-air. I love any of his photographs with fireworks. There are some absolutely amazing images of fireworks going off under the water... I'll have to search for them... too many hours of staring at Ryan's photographs have me misplacing images...
All of these images are from his website @ www.ryanmcginley.com
PS. Click HERE to check out a random McGinley VMag interview.
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