Compare and contrast the following two photos:

Jeff Wall

Canadian b.1946

The Goat 1989

cibachrome transparency, fluorescent light and display case

229.0 x 309.0 cm

Dave Hill

Discuss the intentions of the photographers. Why would these photos be made?
Interpret meanings.
What do you see as the most innovative and creative aspects of the photo?

Discuss techniques and working processes? Similar? Different?

Display of work?

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Truth or Fiction?

On the tightrope Pedro Meyer

We are all doves © Pedro Meyer

“Mexican photographer Pedro Meyer is as renowned for his powerful and provocative photographs as he is for his pioneering work with digital imaging. Meyer’s photographs consistently test the limits of truth, fiction and reality. With the advent of digital photography in the early 1990s, Meyer evolved from a documentary photographer who created so-called “straight photographs” into a digital-documentarian who often combines photographic elements from disparate times and places to arrive at a different or higher truth. Meyer’s oft- expressed contention that all photographs — digitally manipulated or not — are equally “true” and “untrue” has been labeled “heretical” in the orthodox documentary photography community. Hence the title Heresies.” www.pedromeyer.com/heresies/heresies.html

Discuss the following quote:
"All photographs - digitally altered or not - are both truths and fictions." Pedro Meyer

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Food Photography

Discuss the two photos.
Guiding question:
What are the differences between commercial photography and fine art photography?

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Abstract Expressionist New York at the AGO

Rothko

The AGO has just opened their Abstract Expressionist New York exhibition. The show is a great collection of artwork that takes the audience on a journey into the New York of the 50's post-war era.

With rooms dedicated to artists and their works, the exhibit allows for an immersive experience of some very large pieces. A room full of Mark Rothko or Barnett Newman paintings creates an entire conceptual field that is far more mesmerizing than seeing them one at a time or in a book ever could.

Newman

“Every good artist paints what he is.”

– Jackson Pollock

The exhibit is well worth the time and would justify a nice trip to Toronto. For more info click here.