“Spear depicts one of Krasiński’s earliest works: a spear about 7 feet long floating in a rural horizon. The blunt edge of the spear has been segmented into tiny pieces, each hanging from their own wire; from far away it wants to dematerialize. Since he orchestrated objects, actions, and places with a formally varied, casual, and situational approach, Krasiński’s work is often described in terms of mise-en-scène.” [rest can be read here]
Edward Krasiński, “Spear”, Zalesie, 1964
Photograps by Eustachy Kossakowski (more photos from him)
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Sardinia, 1963
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Tirage, United Kingdom, 1996
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Ralph Steiner
Two Men and the Ocean, 1921/1980
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“Using pure data as a source for sound and visuals, datamatics combines abstract and mimetic presentations of matter, time and space in a powerful and breathtakingly accomplished work. Ikeda employs real–time programme computations and data scanning to create an extended new sequence that is a further abstraction of the original work.” [more]
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Ryoji Ikeda, Datamatics [prototype-ver.2.0], 2006-2008
Ralph Gibson, Untitled (from ‘The Somnabulist’ series), 1974
Vintage gelatin silver print on doubleweight paper (+)
Piergiorgio Branzi
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