Melanie Flood, You, My Flower (Self Portrait), 2024, archival pigment print in artist frame. Courtesy of the artist
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Self Portraits
The rise of social media apps like Facebook and Instagram along with the rapid advancements of photo technology created the perfect conditions for selfies to become popular. While this is the most common form of self-portraits taken today, the tradition of people recording and capturing their own image has been around since the earliest of civilizations. The form has remained popular in both fine art spaces and anthropological settings as a tie between beauty, technique, technology, and history. Artist Melanie Flood uses self-portraits to explore her relationship with femininity and aging. The intimate photo series holds a level of curiosity and playfulness with great attention paid to color and depth. Learn more about the tradition of self-portraits with the link below, and stop by the Schneider Museum of Art before August 10th to see Melanie Flood’s work in our Main Gallery.
https://fromlight2art.com/from-self-portrait-to-selfie/
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Dru Donovan, Scrum, 2019, inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist
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Staged Photography
Perfect pictures are rarely natural. Before point-and-shoot cameras, angles, lighting, and timing had to align to get the best possible shot. Staging photos was a standard practice during this time to ensure photographers got the shot they wanted with the limited film available. It also gave them full control of the emotional and physical space, allowing for narratives and messages to be constructed more deliberately. While digital photography allows for instant output, staging is still used today. From choreography to settings, knowing where everything will be the moment the camera goes off helps create the perfect motion and mood reliably. Artist Dru Donovan choreographs her photos in a way that balances acts of care and force. The motions of cheerleading, child rearing, and weight lifting are timed and captured in moments of tension. Learn more about staging photography with the link below, and find Dru Donovan’s work in the Treehaven Gallery of the Schneider Museum of Art.
https://filmlifestyle.com/staged-photography/
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Tarrah Krajnak, Erasing Moonlight, 2023, gelatin silver print, toned and processed, resulting from Durational Performance at Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne. Courtesy of the artist and Zander Galerie, Cologne
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Ansel Adams
American photographer and environmentalist Ansel Adams was born in 1902 in San Francisco, CA. Advocacy was deeply intertwined with his work, and his black-and-white photography of national parks, specifically Yosemite, helped expand the National Park Services and other conservation efforts in the United States. He helped found the photography department of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona. Artist Tarrah Krajnak uses Adams’s piece Moonlight, Hernandez, NM, 1941 in her piece Erasing Moonlight. In the performance that created this piece, Krajnak tapes three copies of the photo to the floor, dips her hair in hot coffee, and scrubs away at the emulsion of the photograph. She then creates a poem from the language of Adams’s description of Moonlight. Erasing Moonlight can be found in the Heiter Gallery of the Schneider Museum of Art. Learn more about Ansel Adams and his legacy with the link below, and visit us to see Krajnak’s rendition of the piece before August 10th.
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