Photography

Maurizio Anzeri – Starting with the Photograph

September 15, 2009 Art+Psyche

I recently came across this UK Guardian slide-show (Saatchi artists at the Michael Hoppen gallery) on artists who manipulate photographs, or otherwise involve them in their art. All of this work’s interesting – and I particularly liked the work of Maurizio Anzeri, two examples of which are below. Maurizio Anzeri Giovanni and Leo 1953 Found [...]

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Drover’s Tale (Creatures Drawn to the Beam), Surry Hills

August 22, 2009 Art+Psyche
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Speaking on Process…

August 22, 2009 Art+Psyche

Paul Butzi’s post Words to Remember is an interesting comment on a reflection by Doug Plummer about his own picture-taking process (which Plummer speaks of in his on-line book At the Fill.). It’s a subject I’ve also been thinking a lot about recently. As anyone who reads this blog has noticed, I’ve recently, gradually, moved [...]

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Numbered Forest, Eden

August 18, 2009 Art+Psyche
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Apotropaic Affair, The Rocks

August 11, 2009 Art+Psyche
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Reflections on some Recent Vispoetics

August 9, 2009 Art+Psyche

A photographic image plus a short piece of text (a poetic) that also functions as a title; and the inevitable distance between the two – a distance we can’t help but attempt to cross. Picture-taking that considers the gestalt of the photographer and the field in which he plays; having a contact cycle that exhibits [...]

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