Curatorship Research
For this task, I have produced a 3000 word personal and illustrated Curatorship Task where I have chosen 3 photographers who's work inspires me and also have a clear themed link between their work. I will also produce a 5 minute presentation of these favourite photographers of mine so that I can establish what my area of interest for this task is.
Photographic Heroes
In order to get an idea of what I wanted for my 3000 word Curatorship Task I created a powerpoint on my top 3 favourite photographers that all had a similar theme to their work so that when it comes to me creating the overall product, I will know what theme I will explore and which photographers I will use.
T o d d E b e r l e
Eberle is a well praised photographer based in New York City whose photography is created by a clean, neat and detailed artistic aesthetic. Eberle’s projects range from architectural landscapes photographed up close and from afar to political, art and cultural figures. Eberle as ‘Photographer-at-large’ at Vanity Fair since 1998 and has also had his work shown in solo exhibitions such as The Art Institute of Chicago, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Paris, Tate Modern - London etc.
Eberle got global recognition for his photographs of american artist Donald Judd’s furniture and art at the great sculptor’s Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas and in other places around the world in 1990s. Due to this experience, Eberle’s photographs are defined by a sense of control, symmetry and proportion. Eberle's architectural photographs have been praised by Joseph P. Rosa for "proposing fresh ways of seeing, thinking about, and interpreting architecture" and for altering the "figurative into the abstract".
Eberle got global recognition for his photographs of american artist Donald Judd’s furniture and art at the great sculptor’s Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas and in other places around the world in 1990s. Due to this experience, Eberle’s photographs are defined by a sense of control, symmetry and proportion. Eberle's architectural photographs have been praised by Joseph P. Rosa for "proposing fresh ways of seeing, thinking about, and interpreting architecture" and for altering the "figurative into the abstract".
N i c k F r a n k
Nick Frank is an architectural, self-taught photographer who specialises in creating particularly emotive, captivating and abstract landscape and cityscape photographs. Frank has had many exhibitions from 2013-2017 such as ‘Tomorrowland, space, Nischni Tagil Russia’ , ‘Various - Red Bull “Dein Viertel, deine Leinwand” in Munich’ and ‘Subways’ in Somerset House, London, 2014. Frank’s photographs can be found in many publications popular today, such as Spiegel and Wired, and newspapers such as Süddeutsche Zeitung.
P e t e S i e g e r
Pete Sieger is a photographer and architect who photographs buildings that are of an abstract form, from different angles. Stieger studied architecture in the late 1960s. Sieger has worked as a practicing architect for over thirty years and his interest for architectural photography dates back to 1972. This is where he had his first large format camera, a 4”x5” Kodak Masterview with a 90mm Schneider Angulon lens. Which is why where we see his photographer's eye and his architect eye. His work has been published in books and periodicals and has been exhibited in the University of Minnesota, College of Design.
E X H I B I T I O N L E A F L E T
For this task, I made a leaflet for a hypothetical exhibition that was created by me and chose the theme of the work shown in the exhibition as well as the photographers and the venue where it will be held. I chose to use the Tate Modern as the chosen venue as it is one of the most popular venues and it shows high quality work as well as a huge range of work. Below is a leaflets inside and outside with three photographers who's work all link and show a similar theme as well as details on each photographer, what the exhibition is about and details on how to get to the venue and details about the event.