Melissa Zexter

Brooklyn based artist Melissa Zexter combines photography and hand-stich embroidery to create layers of narrative and texture in a colorful way. She has an MFA in photography and redefines her practice by sewing on photographs. The use of embroidery is a way to over exaggerate or emphasizes different aspects of the images. The thread primarily acts as a connection between the person/place captured in the photograph and the artist herself.
This is something I might consider doing for the class exhibition if the paint does not work. I also think it might actually make more sense if I embroidered my baby/family pictures to show the connection and bond in the photographs. I really like her stitching process and how some stitching is very random while some are planned. The color and texture also makes the image pop more. Being able to see some of the holes where she might have made a mistake or changed her mind adds more to the photograph. The more I look at them the more I want to embroider instead for the show!



#7 Robert Doisneau

Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville (Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville), 1950

 Robert Doisneau was born in 1922 in Gentilly, a suburb of Paris. In the 1930s he used a Leica on the streets of Paris. He was pioneers of photojournalism with Henri Cartier-Bresson. Doisneau was known for his modest, playful, and ironic images of amusing juxtapositions, mingling social classes, and eccentrics in contemporary Paris streets and cafes.

La gargouille de Notre Dame, 1969

La diagonale des marches, Paris 1953

La dactylo du Vert Galant, Paris 1947

Le plongeur du Pont d'Iena, Paris 1945

Some of Doisneau's most memorable photographs were taken after the war. He returned to freelance photography and sold photographs to Life and other international magazines.

Amour et barbelés

In 1948 he was contracted by Vogue to work as a fashion photographer. The editors believed he would bring a fresh and more casual look the magazine but Doisneau didn’t enjoy photographing beautiful women in elegant surroundings; he preferred street photography. When he could escape from the studio, he photographed ever more in the streets of Paris.

"I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be.

robert-doisneau.com

Walead Beshty

"Walead Beshty has developed and discovered an interesting style of photography purely by accident. One day, after returning from traveling abroad, Beshty developed unexposed rolls of film. He expected to see images he had taken during his trip, but was surprised to find that his developed film had strange lines and color on it. The film had been unintentionally exposed when the unexposed film had been sent through an airport X-ray machine. The film shows the basic part of the photographic process after the chemical emulsion is changed after exposure to radiation. Beshty believed these photographs share a relationship with the social and political world. These photos represent the current social and political state of the world after the events of 9/11. Due to the post-9/11 security measures at airports, the photographs are literally altered. He believed these photos could be taken as a portrait of the current security regulations with traces of his travels implanted into the photograph. Since this strange discovery, Beshty has continued to use this method and experiment with different ways of exposing film."

Rune Guneriussen

Rune Guneriussen was born in 1977 and lives and works in Norway. He works in the transition from installation and photography. Guneriussen creates his installations solely on site, primarily in nature. He describes his purpose as an approach to the balance between nature and human culture, and all the sublevels of our own existence. I like Guneriussen's approach that art should be questioning and bewildering. I feel like all of his photographs tell a story and I enjoy the ethereal dreamy feel of some of his photos.

http://www.runeguneriussen.no/

Post #7 - Sarah Jarad 

Christopher Shneberger

Christopher Shneberger is a Chicago artist and teaches photography at Colombia College. His interests are in creating surreal narratives that are compelling and elusive. His work has developed into full stories that embrace the supernatural. His stories are initially small ideas which are often inspired by location, technical advancement or historical research. From there they grow into detailed narratives, and are eventually executed after lengthy preproduction involving casting, costumes, props, and sets.
Thanks to Nate, I found a photographer that does something similar to what I have been doing in class. I find his stories very interesting and somewhat comical, but maybe that's just me. His images are a little  creepy after you spend a little time staring at them. His work is a lot better than mine and I would like to refine my work in the future by recreating other stories that I have read or heard about.

Jess Dugan

Jess Dugan's work explores gender, sexuality, identity, and community. She went to school at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and also got her MFA from Columbia College Chicago. Dugan's work is inspiring to me and to my current project I am trying to explore with self acceptance. I enjoy the sincere emotions that Dugan is able to capture. If you went to the Catherine Edleman Gallery field trip last Wednesday her work was exhibited with the "Identity" show. Check out more of her work at http://www.jessdugan.com/

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by Vanessa Riojas