Reinterpreting Old Masters
-references to Vermeer, Chan-hyo Bae and his Elizabethan costumes, Karen Knorr as well as Laura Letinsky's still lifes. Artists taking aspects of the classics and reinterpreting in their own way. As life speeds by and we loose touch with our history, artists are finding inspiration in the past.Cameraless Photography
-cameraless photography sees even more. In photograms, images are created by placing objects on large sheets of photographic paper and exposing them to light -- the simplest things are transformed into abstractions of startling beauty. Perfected by Man Ray in the form of rayograms. Floris Neususs's vintage silver gelatin Photograms. He further departs from the conventional photogram by developing his images using a brush, sponge, or rag dipped into developer and then wiped across the paper to produce a controlled, painterly plane. Neusüss does not fix his prints, allowing his works to constantly change colors over the years. He recently retired as Professor in Experimental Photography, University of Kassel, where he has taught since 1971. Work of other artists experimenting with old cameraless techniques seem to be on the rise.
Sublimity
-photography which sets to evoke the fragility of nature/environment. Awe of our natural environment. Veronica Bailey's polaroids of the tropics which are slowly disappearing from our planet coincides with the medium she uses in her piece. Theme of time running out but also that it is a cycle and that its alright. Nicolas Hughe's sea scapes speaks of the vastness of the sea but also what they can hide. Both soothing but tragic.
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