Experimental photographers and artists

1. Text with Images
Experimental artists

2. Jim Goldberg
Bangladesh. Dhaka. 2007. Man at a
recruitment center.
GREECE. Athens. 2003.
Muzaffar “Alex” Jafari writes about his journey
on foot from Afghanistan to Greece via Iran.
Now Alex is in school and supports himself by
working in a call center.

3. Matt Siber
The Untitled Project is rooted in an underlying interest in the nature of power.
With the removal of all traces of text from the photographs, the project
explores the manifestation of power between large groups of people in the
form of public and semi-public language. The absence of the printed word not
only draws attention to the role text plays in the modern landscape but also
simultaneously emphasizes alternative forms of communication such as
symbols, colors, architecture and corporate branding. In doing this, it serves
to point out the growing number of ways in which public voices communicate
without using traditional forms of written language.
The reintroduction of the text takes written language out of the context of its
intended viewing environment. The composition of the layouts remain true to
the composition of their corresponding photographs in order to draw
attention to relative size, location and orientation. The isolation of the text
from its original graphic design and accompanying logos, photographs and
icons helps to further explore the nature of communication in the urban
landscape as a combination of visual and literal signifiers.

6. Jeffrey Wolin
Written in Memory:
Portraits of the Holocaust
Wolin's series of portraits of Holocaust survivors, Written
in Memory: Portraits of the Holocaust, was published by
Chronicle Books, accompanying solo exhibitions of this
work at the Art Institute of Chicago, International Center
of Photography in New York, Chrysler Museum in Norfolk.

7.  Barbara Kruger

8.  Alexander Apóstol

9.  Daneile Buetti

11. Leon Ferrari
explores the relationship between violence and religion.
In 1995 the newspaper Pagina/12 decided to publish the The Nunca Mas (never more)
report that investigated human rights violations and the fate of forced disappearances
during the Argentinean dictatorship (1976-81).
Handwritten texts on photocopy

12. ‘It is not anti-religious art, but rather art against repression and torture, whether it is
of religious character or not,’ clarified the artist.
‘I treated the religious aspect in illustrations that I made for an edition of “Nunca
Más”, especially against Videla, but I was talking about power in the same way that I
talk about anti-Semitism, or against the criminalisation of abortion. It is not a problem
with religion but rather a problem with intolerance and violence.’
Cited in Luis Felipe Noé, ‘Una visita con León Ferrari’, in Leon Ferrari: Retrospectiva
Obras 1954–2004. Andrea Giunta (ed.). Centro Cultural Recoleta, Pinacoteca, São
Paolo, Brazil, 2006, p. 382.

13. Lorna Simpson
Three Seated Figure

14. Other Experimental Techniques

15. Hiroshi Sugimoto
Early-twentieth century Modernism greatly
transformed our lives, liberating the human spirit
from untold decoration. No longer needing to
draw attention from God, all aristocratic attempts
at ostentation have fallen away. At last we avail
ourselves of mechanical aids far beyond our
human powers, attaining the freedom to shape
things at will.
I decided to trace the beginnings of our age via
architecture. Pushing my old large-format camera’s
focal length out to twice-infinity―with no stops on
the bellows rail, the view through the lens was an
utter blur―I discovered that superlative
architecture survives, however dissolved, the
onslaught of blurred photography. Thus I began
erosion-testing architecture for durability,
completely melting away many of the buildings in
the process.

17. Osamu James Nakagawa
Mado (window series)
I have been working on the Mado series for
over a decade. It is a work that I come back to
when I want to center myself. The series
consists of contemplative introspective images
that call attention to moments of isolation. I
am interested in the space between the self
and the other, private and public. In between
these spaces, exist in flux: fluidity, unity,
energy, impulse, and rhythm.

18. Collages by Martha Rosler
Invasion, 2008
House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home, New Series
Gray Drape, 2008

19. ELIJAH GOWIN
Into the Sun, 2009

20. You must Complete all of the following for the end of the
week
Deadline for 1-3 is Thursday 21 / Friday 22 Jan
TACTILE EXPERIMENTATION
You must demonstrate:
3- 4 Tactile experiments on prints, this can include: sellotape transfer, burning,
scratching, folding, image maker, embossing, painting on prints, sewing on prints,
photo sculptures, layering images with materials.
DIGITAL EXPERIMENTATION
You must demonstrate:
2 Photoshop techniques: this can include: layering of images, collaging, HDR,
joiners, double exposures, Jerry Uelsman style images and more.
2 alternative digital techniques: with a camera mask the lens with materials or
home made filters, use the scanner as your camera, disposable camera and more.
ARTIST COMPARISON
Include a contextual reference comparing your experiment with an artist.