fotografiska nyc
- outsightart
- Mar 21, 2020
- 2 min read
Happy spring! Hope you are doing well and staying healthy. While the museums and galleries are closed, we are seeking inspiration to help us stay creative. With these photos from our recent visit to Fotografiska NYC, we invite you to #Museumfromhome! Fotografiska is holding multiple exhibits by women artists. Check out the gallery of photos below.
Inheritance, by Tawny Chatmon invites the viewer to look beyond the decorated and nuanced portraits to examine issues of race and the historical, positioning of African American portraiture in the absence of subjugation of the 'black body' in Western art. Chatmon, a mother of three black children, draws from her life experiences and belief that children inherit our memories, beliefs, traditions, and the world that we leave behind. Through her photographs, she conveys a message to her children, and to all black children, that they are precious, valued, and loved. While the camera is her primary tool of communication, Chatmon takes a multi-layered approach in producing her photographs- her process does not subscribe to conventional photography. The photographs are often manipulated and hand- embellished with acrylic paint and 24-karat gold leaf, inspired by Gustav Klimt's (1862-1918) "Golden Phase".
Thinking Like a Mountain, by Helene Schmitz: Schmitz is a large-scale environmental photographer investigating the exploitation of the natural world and its resources. She links her sober and revealing photographs to the rich tradition of landscape painting, using a large-format, analogue camera that enables the viewer to study both the overall vista and the small details. “In Thinking Like a Mountain, I wanted to portray the violent transformation of landscapes in the northern regions of Sweden and Iceland in our time. In my life, I have experienced that the concept of wilderness, and virgin land untouched by humans, has disintegrated. My photographs can be seen as a meditation on man’s relation to nature – a global, highly industrialized and automated transformation of landscapes.”
Devotion! 30 Years of Photographing Women, by Ellen von Unwerth: For over thirty years, Ellen von Unwerth has photographed primarily women. In the process, she has created a style that combines self-assurance, sensuality, and fun. "My camera is the object I put between myself and the world. It is the magical thing that reveals the secrets of the person who is in front of the lens and the perception I have of them. In that way, photographing women has always been a personal quest of unveiling personalities, emotions, and fantasies. It has never been about capturing only the physical beauty of a person."
Fotografiska For Life X TIME by Anastasia Taylor-Lind: This exhibition intimately documents the lives of women in New York City and their interconnected, interdependent child care relationships with mothers, grandmothers, nannies, babysitters, night-nurses and daycare workers. “This project looks at the caregivers who raise New York’s children, the ways women find to balance motherhood with work, today, and the daily rhythm of life for children growing up in the city. As always, the process of photographing also allows for personal exploration – as a woman in my late- thirties I am coming to understand the ways motherhood may or may not be possible for me in the future. Produced in collaboration with Fotografiska and TIME, I’m delighted to present this new work as one of the inaugural shows of Fotografiska New York.”
Source: Fotografiska
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