Welcome to fortytwofifty. This is where I will be posting useful photo information I come across during the semester, things like links to photographers' websites, recommended readings, inspiring quotes, and much more.
I hope you will check in often. Look, learn, and enjoy!
Rachel Harrison is an artist who incorporates photographs as well as other objects into her sculptures. All of the materials are integral and inseparable to the artwork, including the photographs. Click here for more.
These works by Marlo Pascual were part of a recent exhibition at Casey Kaplan Gallery. Click here to see more. The frames are built into the actual art works and are inseparable from its form, signification, and content.
The work of Marcel Broodthaers titled Section Cinema has been re-created on site at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York. The installation becomes an "extended frame" for the photographs which are a part of it. The viewer enters the installation (frame) and becomes immersed 'within' it. In addition, some of the photographs which are part of the installation have "immediate frames" which the viewer stands on the 'outside' of. Click here to see and read more.
Photografeur J R has been awarded the TED prize for 2011 for his project pasting large photographs in downtrodden neighborhoods all over the world. Click here to read and see more.