Posts tagged 1980s

Edward Ruscha, Coyote, Lithograph on Rives BFK paper, 1989

Edward Ruscha, Coyote, Lithograph on Rives BFK paper, 1989

“Art is technique: a means by which to materialize the invisible realm of the mind. As such, my art is an emblematic rendering of part of my mind in visible form—or perhaps we might say, samplings from my consciousness.” Hiroshi Sugimoto, Mediterranean Sea, Cassis, 1989 [excerpt from here; +]

“Art is technique: a means by which to materialize the invisible realm of the mind. As such, my art is an emblematic rendering of part of my mind in visible form—or perhaps we might say, samplings from my consciousness.”

Hiroshi Sugimoto, Mediterranean Sea, Cassis, 1989 [excerpt from here; +]

Willy Ronis, La Péniche aux enfants, Paris, 1959, printed 1985 [mon paris (paris: denoël, 1985), plate 24]

Willy Ronis, La Péniche aux enfants, Paris, 1959, printed 1985 [mon paris (paris: denoël, 1985), plate 24]

“Dignity and poverty ride on the same horse. The struggle for survival is very difficult, and man, a hard beast, faces it from birth till death, always with signs of resolution—fighting the barrenness of the land, the long droughts, and the still-feudal agrarian structure.” [Sebastião Salgado, Other Americas, p.12] (photo from an uncertain grace, p.93; also an essay here) Sebastião Salgado, The Refugee Camp of Korem, Ethiopia, 1984 [+]

“Dignity and poverty ride on the same horse. The struggle for survival is very difficult, and man, a hard beast, faces it from birth till death, always with signs of resolution—fighting the barrenness of the land, the long droughts, and the still-feudal agrarian structure.” [Sebastião Salgado, Other Americas, p.12]

(photo from an uncertain grace, p.93; also an essay here)

Sebastião Salgado, The Refugee Camp of Korem, Ethiopia, 1984 [+]

Max Yavno, The Leg, Olympic Boulevard (Los Angeles), 1949 [The Photography of Max Yavno, 1981, pl. 24]

Max Yavno, The Leg, Olympic Boulevard (Los Angeles), 1949

[The Photography of Max Yavno, 1981, pl. 24]

“In February 1983 in Rochester, NY, I found a set of Compton’s Encyclopedias, (circa 1950), bound them together using thick rope, built a pyramidal structure, and hung them in my backyard. The piece is entitled, Books of Knowledge Standing Up Against the Elements that I photographed through seasonal changes and locations wherever I lived.” [more]

Doug Beube, Books of Knowledge Standing Up Against the Elements, 1989

[Altered books, burnt Enclyclopedias]