Lightwork Artist in Residence list

Here is another great resource for finding contemporary photo based artists:

http://www.lightwork.org/artists/

Some photographers for Marie to look up (abstract work)

These are all from the book Edge of Vision by Lyle Rexer

Man Ray

Laszlo Maholy-Nagy

Minor White

Frederick Sommer

Aaron Siskind

Ray K. Metzker

Lewis Baltz

*Barbara Kasten

Wolfgang Tillmans

Chris McCaw

Atta Kim

Idris Kahn

Utah Barth

Marco Breuer

Edward Mapplethorpe

Walead Beshty

Roland Fischer

Penelope Umbrico

Sally Mann

Sally Mann

 

Body Farm

 

Of course, Sally Mann.
Sally Mann is an American photographer born in Lexington, Virginia. Body Farm is a series she photographed at a facility that studies human decomposition to better understand the process. Her work really provokes strong emotions and reactions which I really enjoy. I picked this series in particular because I liked the darkness of it and the truth that lies with in it. Sally Mann explains that death is an unspoken part of life that gets tucked away. She portrays the bodies as decaying vessels that once held something more. We are more than what we see on the outside and what we decide to materialistically surround ourselves with. Our bodies are in the end going to decay and feed the Earth. Some of her images are very disturbing and that is why I only posted a couple. If you would like to see more you can check her out at http://sallymann.com/selected-works.

 



Silvia Grav

Silvia Grav

 

About the Holocaust

 

 

Born in Pais Vasco (Spain) in December, 1993. Learned to draw before she could talk and one day realizes that this is the thing she wants to do for the rest of her life. Consequently, she starts to study fine arts, but is frustrated soon and leaves during her second year to devote herself to real learning and begins to work as an artist. Since then, her art has appeared in several blogs and major journals. On top she is doing the artwork for various musicians and always is involved in some new projects.

What I like about Silvia's work is that it is very dark. Some of her other works are in a way creepy and mysterious which is what draws me in. For this series, About the Holocaust, she obviously reappropraited images from other sources into her own photographs which inspires me to try it out myself.

 



http://www.silviagrav.com/

 



#1 Ryan McGinley

< BMX, 2000 >

Ryan McGinley (1977 - , USA) is a New York City-based photographer, he began to make a mark as one of the youngest artists to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2003 at his age of 25.

He is a daring photographer of shame-free nudity, known for pictures of his nubile young friends, male and female, cavorting unclothed outdoors.

< Jonas & Jennifer, 2011 >

Animals are also his main interest. Despite the presence of McGinley’s trademark nude models, focuses primarily on the animals themselves by using the bodies as a sort of living, breathing canvas.

< Laura (Thunderstorm), 2007 >

I watched his exhibition when I was in Seoul, I realized that the color of his works is very special. This is one of my favorite photo which was taken by him, I've felt like it's  between watercolor paint and photograph.

He has enthusiasm about music and short film. He directed Varúð's music video sung by experimental-Icelandic band Sigur Rós in 2012.

<Purple Beacon, 2011>

“My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. 

They are a world that doesn’t exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules.

The life I wish I was living.”

ryanmcginley.com

Christoper McKenny

Christopher Mckenny is a conceptual photographer from Pennsylvania. Mckenny shoots horror and surrealist photographs. I personally love his work because of the subject matter and editing he uses. McKenny's work makes you feel a range of emotions and he is not afraid to make you uncomfortable. I admire his style because he must have to meticulously plan a lot of his shots out. He has an amazing eye for detail and his shots and editing are so crisp that the illusions he creates feel extremely real. Check out his website. If you like dark and creepy things I am sure you will not be disappointed. http://www.christophermckenney.com/work

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Richard Nickel

Richard Nickel was born on May 31, 1928 and passed away onApril 13, 1972.  He was a polish american who grew up in Chicago in he Humbolt park area. He served in the military as a paratrooper and a photographer. “Richard Nickel had never given architecture any serious thought, or even heard of Louis Sullivan, before he enrolled in a photography class at the Institute of Design in Chicago in the early 1950s. There, photography teacher Aaron Siskind gave Nickel and his classmates a simple assignment: go out and photograph Sullivan's buildings. It was an assignment that would change Nickel's life as he became captivated by Sullivan's decorative details. As he continued to photograph the buildings, he began to devour Sullivan's writings. In Louis Sullivan, Richard Nickel had found a kindred spirit.” Nickel began documenting every known Sullivan building. But soon the buildings started being destroyed and he realized that he should also be saving as much of he could from every Louis Sullivan building. Richard nickel tried really hard to save the Garrick building and it was the first time he wanted to safe a building but the demolition of it was approved. 

                   

                      

                    

                 

Unable to stop the demolition, Nickel and a partner were able to save a significant portion of the building's ornament, including the complete interior of the Trading Room, which was later recreated at the Art Institute. Even after the official salvage operation ended, Nickel kept returning to the site for more pieces. On April 13, 1972, he disappeared. A month later, after a protracted search, his body was found in the rubble of the building. He had been crushed when the Trading Room floor collapsed.

The Art Institute of Chicago has many more of his pictures,

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/artist/Nickel,+Richard