5 Search Results for “Memory Shadow and Light”

  • Part of Jul 2012 by

    The Turin Horse, a Crafted Storyboard of Angelic Light

    Slow the gears way down and go back to cinematography 101. Back to the mesmerizing glow on the actor’s face and the fine balance of light against a pallet of gray shadow. Where film has come to worship color enhancement and quick cuts, I think we’ve underestimated the strength of static-frames and the black-and-white image. This is proven by Bela Tarr‘s Hungarian film, The Turin Horse, with cinematography by Fred More …

  • Part of Edition by

    Currents New Media Festival in Review

    Currents New Media Festival this year augmented what new media artist Julia Scher has called “appearances in screens” with Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality experiences. Nested into the main event at El Museo Cultural was Code and Noise, an independent exhibition that seemed especially well-suited for visitors interested in how appearances in screens may metamorphose into a next situation. I paid three visits to Currents 2016 and consistently found Code More …

  • Part of Sep 2010 by

    Richard Carter: “Future Beauty” Paintings on Exhibit at David Floria

    ASPEN–Richard Carters New Paintings:  Future Beauty, constitute a 44-painting series, exploring fire in its contemporary apocalyptic forms””forest fires, prairie fires, fires burning oil in the Gulf of Mexico from the Deep Horizon well, flames of meteor fragments entering the atmosphere.  He will show some of them – and an unrelated suite of seven digital prints – at David Floria Gallery in Aspen from September 10 to October 6. “Even as More …

  • Part of Aug 2010 by

    Review: “Past As Presence”: Joanne Lefrak

    White images, scratches on Plexiglas, reflecting on the white light of history, the urge to indelible amid the prevalence of invisible. In World War II, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The controversial testing of those bombs, which occurred prior to the obliteration of the two Japanese cities, took place near San Antonio, New Mexico on July 16, 1945. The location of the first nuclear explosion More …

  • Part of Jul 2009 by

    Photographer Julius Shulman, passes in Los Angeles, age 98

    Julius Shulman, who died in Los Angeles last week at 98,  lived most of his life in the shadow of the Hollywood Hills, so its fitting that his career was a three-act drama – his struggle to see modernist architecture recognized through his luminous photography, followed by the decline of public taste for modernism (and many great buildings subsequent demolition). Act 3 was the revival of modernism’s and Shulman’s reputations, More …