Tag Archives: Andreas Gursky

Avoiding The Fraught Enterprise

Posted on September 6, 2015 by stevemiddlehurst

I have been researching staged photography by reviewing the usual suspects; Crewdson (here), Sherman (here), Wall (here) and diCordia. This quartet is intriguing, in part because their work is so different yet linked by premeditated staging and the appropriation of cinematic processes and … Continue reading →

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Selfie or Self Portrait

Posted on June 12, 2015 by stevemiddlehurst

In 1548 Catharina van Hemessen painted herself at her easel, a painting remarkable only because it is considered to be the oldest surviving self portrait of an artist at work (1). The subject of “me by me, doing what I do” … Continue reading →

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The Deadpan Aesthetic

Posted on February 24, 2015 by stevemiddlehurst

History and Origins According to Artbook (1) the origins of the word “Deadpan”  can be traced to 1927 when Vanity Fair Magazine compounded the words dead and pan, a slang word for a face, and used it as a noun. … Continue reading →

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