Daniel Temkin Daniel Temkin makes still and interactive pieces stemming from different forms of miscommunication, often built as uneasy collaborations with the computer. I'm featuring two of his projects which are related with glitches and errors produced by the use of basic softwares such as Photoshop. The first one is called Glitchometry, Daniel describes; each image begins as one or a few black squares or circles. Glitchometry (recommend click images to enlarge) Dither Studies "A collaboration with Photoshop. Daniel only used the indexed color mode from Photoshop to make this series, see the full series here.
Metamorphose DANDY DIARY - Männer Mode Blog - DANDY DIARY - Men's Fashion Blog - DANDY DIARY Photographs Do Not Bend: contemporary photographers Archives Research: Sam Taylor Wood, Still Life (video stills), 2001 In the arts, vanitas is a type of symbolic work of art especially associated with Northern European still life in Flanders and the Netherlands in the 16th and 17th centuries though also common in other places and periods. The word is Latin, meaning "emptiness" and loosely translated corresponds to the meaninglessness of earthly life and the transient nature of Vanity. Common vanitas symbols include skulls, which are a reminder of the certainty of death; rotten fruit, which symbolizes decay like ageing; bubbles, which symbolize the brevity of life and suddenness of death; smoke, watches, and hourglasses, which symbolize the brevity of life; and musical instruments, which symbolize brevity and the ephemeral nature of life.
Liddy Scheffknecht Scaffolding (2006-2007) by Liddy Scheffknecht. All architectural elements except the scaffolding were removed from the photograph of a building under renovation. The result is an autonomous “drawing“, which suggests the form of the erased building. The scaffolding, normally a temporary urban structure, was retained whereas the building, a permanent urban structure, was eliminated. See more; Cada día un fotógrafo / Fotógrafos en la red Man Ray official digital photographic library manray-photo.com, Man Ray official digital photographic library
American Pixels by Jörg M. Colberg "American Pixels" series is a pixel experiment created by Jörg M. Colberg in (2009 - 2010). "Image formats like jpeg (or gif) use compression algorithms to save space, while trying to retain a large fraction of the original information. "My idea was to create a variant that followed in the footsteps of what jpegs do, but to have the final result depend on the original image: in a very direct way the computer algorithm becomes part of the image creation. As computer technology has evolved to make artificial images look ever more real - so that the latest generation of shooter and war games will look as realistic as possible - acomp is intended to go the opposite way: Instead of creating an image artificially with the intent of making it look as photo-realistic as possible, it takes an image captured from life and transforms it into something that looks real and not real at the same time.
Julien Coquentin - photographer Dieter Appelt, Wout Berger | Images fabriquées. Photographie plasticienne | Thonon Les Bains. Galerie de l´Etrave Communiqué de presseDieter Appelt, Wout Berger, John Coplans, Gilbert & George, Risk Hazekamp, Olivier Herring, Ana Mendieta, Myriam Mihindou, Joachim Mogarra, Arnulf Rainer, Georges Rousse, Elisa Sighicelli, Sandy SkoglundImages fabriquées / Photographie plasticienne. Collection Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon Précédé par l'expression d'"image fabriquée", davantage explicite par rapport à l'idée d'une manipulation, le concept de photographie plasticienne a été inventé au milieu des années quatre-vingt pour désigner toute une production d'images qui, si elle recourt au médium photographique, se distingue de l'usage ordinairement convenu qu'on en fait. La qualité de «plasticienne» renvoie en effet à l'idée d'une photographie dont l'image procède de diverses manipulations tant des matériaux et des modèles qui la constituent que du format ou de la mise en espace dans lesquels elle est établie.