2. Hannah Hoch
Hannah Hoch was a German artist/photographer, and
became famous for her contemporary multimedia,
collage/photomontage work. These works she
created were usually to do with the way women are
perceived in the media, how they are viewed and how
they should look. She was also a part of the DADA
movement, which lots of other artists which
concentrated on anti-war politics and the rejection of
art and anti-cultural works. Dada became the start for
many different kinds of art, like performance art,
abstract art and sound poetry. Because she created
work and art that was ahead of her time, her art if
considered contemporary, but the methods she used
were traditional, as film cameras and found images
were the only thing that had been invented back then.
These images would be presented as art, in a show
or exhibition or in a book.
3. Idris Khan
Idris Khan is an artist who is deeply interested in layering of
images, multi-exposure images. His work relies on the
continuous layering of new layers of the same thing but in a
slightly different angle or slightly more zoomed out. Originally
Idris became famous for layering another photographers
Bernd and Hilla Becher’s exposures of similar images that
they had taken. The technique he is using is contemporary,
as it is new and no one has seen it been done before. But
the method of how the photographs have been taken is
traditional methods, as they are older photos from different
photographers, these have been taken on film, so Idris Khan
has layered the multiple exposures with the film from the
camera, rather than digitally. His work is originally art, to be
shown in galleries and books, but one of his pieces actually
became commercial, when it was used for album artwork for
a band.
4. Man Ray
Man Ray was an experimental, modernist artist who came up
with the idea of taking pictures using rayographs, taking
photos without the use of a camera. Along with Hannah Hoch
he was also a part of the DADA movement. He was an artist
and worked with different mediums, and considered himself a
painter, but he was most well known for his photography. He
was a famous for his portrait and fashion photography. Man
Ray worked with photograms, which he then owned, and
called his pieces ‘Rayographs’ in reference to himself. Man
Ray’s work was seen to be contemporary because he was
experimenting with different kinds of techniques and subject
matters. But the methods he used were traditional, because
artists in those days could only work with film and their own
hands, digital products had not been invented back then in the
early 1900s. His work would be considered as fine art, and
would be displayed in exhibitions or in books.
