Fran Forman
#Photographe
- Exposition
Kids (Not Cute) at the Umbrella Arts Gallery
The Kids (Not Cute) exhibition started as a National Competition for Photographs and Photo-Based Artwork at Umbrella Arts, New York City. Now images are displayed and show an unconventional vision of kids which is quite refreshing and interesting.
"We want to see your photographs of KIDS, but not cute. Any format, any camera, any style is fine. We are seeking images of KIDS that are a bit unusual and out of the ordinary, not the conventionally cute and sentimental images that are often seen. The photographs can be amusing, interesting, sad, frank and biting. The tone can convey an appreciation for the joys and difficulties experienced by KIDS in the essentially absurd predicament of growing into an adult world. KIDS pictured in environments from home to zoo, from city streets to rural and suburban places, from t... - Exposition
« Extended Realities: The Language of Photomontage » at the Rowan University Art Gallery
Extended Realities
From its earliest years, photographers have sought to overcome the limitations of making images from a single exposure, to adapt the picture-making strategies of printmaking, drawing, and painting, and to claim an equal place for photography among the fine arts. Photomontage — the combining of two or more photographic images into one — has been one strategy for achieving this goal. It was used in the 19th century by such practitioners as Oscar Gustave Rejlander and Henry Peach Robinson, and was popular in the early 20th century among the Dadaists and Surrealists as well as Russian Constructivist artists and Modernist photographers. It was the technique used by John Heartfield to skewer the Nazis in his many covers for the Arbeiter-Illustriete-Zeitung (The Workers Pictorial Newspaper)...
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The Kids (Not Cute) exhibition started as a National Competition for Photographs and Photo-Based Artwork at Umbrella Arts, New York City. Now images are displayed and show an unconventional vision of kids which is quite refreshing and interesting.
"We want to see your photographs of KIDS, but not cute. Any format, any camera, any style is fine. We are seeking images of KIDS that are a bit unusual and out of the ordinary, not the conventionally cute and sentimental images that are often seen. The photographs can be amusing, interesting, sad, frank and biting. The tone can convey an appreciation for the joys and difficulties experienced by KIDS in the essentially absurd predicament of growing into an adult world. KIDS pictured in environments from home to zoo, from city streets to rural and suburban places, from t...
Extended Realities
From its earliest years, photographers have sought to overcome the limitations of making images from a single exposure, to adapt the picture-making strategies of printmaking, drawing, and painting, and to claim an equal place for photography among the fine arts. Photomontage — the combining of two or more photographic images into one — has been one strategy for achieving this goal. It was used in the 19th century by such practitioners as Oscar Gustave Rejlander and Henry Peach Robinson, and was popular in the early 20th century among the Dadaists and Surrealists as well as Russian Constructivist artists and Modernist photographers. It was the technique used by John Heartfield to skewer the Nazis in his many covers for the Arbeiter-Illustriete-Zeitung (The Workers Pictorial Newspaper)...