Sketchbook Twenty-Three

After viewing the work of photographer Priya Kambli, what are your reactions to her imagery? What stories do they tell you as the viewer? In what ways do these images fall into the domain of contemporary photography? In what ways do these images fall into the domain of historical photography?

Sketchbook Twenty-Two

Take a look at the work of contemporary painter, Christopher Nolasco via his website: http://www.nolascoart.com/index.htm

Choose an image to create a formal analysis critique defining his style and approach to portraiture.

Sketchbook Twenty-One

Take a look at the work of famous painter Chuck Close via his website: http://www.chuckclose.coe.uh.edu/life/index.html

Choose one of his pieces to produce a formal analysis critique. Also consider the question, how does his work relate to photography?

Sketchbook Prompt Twenty

Attie, Shimon
$300.00
Behind Piazza Mattei, On-location slide projection, Rome Italy, 2002
C-print
6 3/8 x 8 1/2 inches on 8 x 10 inch paper
Edition of 50

Concerned with questions of memory, place, and identity, installation artist and photographer Shimon Attie gives visual form to both personal and collective memories by recovering untold stories, specifically those of marginalized and forgotten communities, and incorporating them into the physical landscapes of the present. In his series entitled The History of Another, Attie uses modern Rome as his backdrop to project fragments of historical photographs of Roman Jews taken between 1890 and 1920 onto the city's ancient ruins and excavation sites. Attie received an M.A. from Antioch University, San Francisco (1982), and an M.F.A. from San Francisco State University (1991). His work has been widely exhibited at venues including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. His work is in the collections of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; International Center for Photography, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Maison Europeen de la Photographie, Paris; amongst many others. Attie is the recipient of fellowships from organizations including The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York; The National Endowment for the Arts; and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He lives in New York.

Writing Prompt: What are your thoughts about this work? How do you feel about the image after looking at the price of the piece? How does the concept of money change the artistic value of an image?