Category: Photography

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1995.266.2/ Sherrie Levine is an American appropriation artist and member of the Pictures Generation. In her examination of the codes of representation and authenticity, Levine recreates the work of historically significant artists, such as Walker Evans, Constantin Brancusi, Vincent van Gogh, and Edgar Degas, among others. Her work interrogates notions of ownership and meaning by directly confronting canonical works and… Continue reading Appropriation

About Lewis Hine: http://iphf.org/inductees/lewis-hine/ What is the photograph’s composition?What moment in time does the photograph capture?What is the setting of this photograph?What is the focal point of the photograph?Reading Photographs: https://web.archive.org/web/20180205060315/http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/677 Photographs of children picking cotton.Jewel and Harold Walker, 6 and 5 years old, pick 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day ... Location: Comanche County ... Oklahoma (LOC)Hine, Lewis Wickes,,… Continue reading Lewis Hine: A Photographer’s Decisions