The images of architectural structures in Adam Ryder’s Selections from the Joint Photographic Survey function as relics from a rediscovered archive of a geological and cultural survey of the Holy Land. Ryder presents these pictures as selections from an ambitious FSA-like project between two factions who occupied lands that exist now as Israel, Palestine, and Jordan…
When examining our daily contemporary lives in western culture, one finds that there is barely a single situation that is not influenced by digital technology and communication through the World Wide Web…
This project investigates the idea of using computation to “use up” a piece of technology, in this case a digital camera. Using custom-written software (and a very long period of time), every possible photograph…
Through the use of science fiction and fantasy imagery, New York artist Mary Mattingly addresses real world problems of environmental sustainability. Throughout her various photographic series, which supplement her sculptural…
Although experimentation with the accurate depiction of reality is nothing new to the field of photography, Dutch artist Reinier Gerritsen and the seductively…
Nancy Davenport’s stirring photo series Apartments explores the parallels between violence sponsored by the state and violence inflicted by individual actors, the unique tension between reality and its recollection in media…
Professional sporting events are places of intense spectacle. Athletes rise to celebrity status as they execute stunning displays of skill to the explosive adulation of audiences waiting in anticipation…
In his series, Atomic Overlook, L.A. artist Clay Lipski opens an engaging dialog about public fascination with the nuclear bomb. Appropriating imagery of both mushroom clouds and tourist figures, Lipsky combines them aptly to create an unsettling casual set of pictures in which the austerity and violence of the atomic explosion…
Optional Features Shown is comprised of portions of car commercials in which the text and representations of cars and people have been digitally replaced…
Kalee Appleton’s Bit Rot series explores the properties of digital information through the guise of landscape pictures. By manipulating the information embedded in the image file, rather than…
“If it were women who ran the world,” an old saying begins, and artist Debbie Grossman has attempted to finish that platitude for us in her series My Pie Town. In 1940, Russell Lee created a series of photographs in a small community…