photo-graphic manipulation

Photo-Graphic Manipulation


The “Cheap” Effect


Back to the beginning

Thomas Ruff, Portrait, 1991


Seeing is...

Nancy Burson, Human Race Machine, 1999


...believing

Nancy Burson, He/She, 1997


Authenticity vs Ambiguity

The Moorman Polaroid, 1961


Authenticity vs Ambiguity

Spoof pictures of the WTC attacks, 2001


Authenticity vs context

Lenin speaking to the troups, 1924



The same picture as original, ca. 1920



Original Photograph of Stalin and Comrades by Nikolai Schwernik, 1926



From the book History of the Soviet Union, 1940



From a biography, 1949



Painting by Isaac Brodsky, 1929


Authenticity...

Bob Jackson, Shooting of Lee H. Oswald, 1961


... and Irony

An alternative take by George Mahlberg


Authenticity and Irony

Olivier Chételat, The amazing Fishermen-, Dog- and Toyota-Show, 2000


Authenticity and Irony

Original Tourist of Death photograph, 2001


Authenticity as a story vehicle

Woody Allen, Zelig, 1983 and Robert Zemeckis, Forrest Gump, 2000



Stephen Spielberg, Jurassic Park, 1993



Scenes from Matrix Reloaded, 2003


Artificial authenticity

Synthetic Face Creation, Volker Blanz, Universität Tübingen, 1998


Another “authentic” approach

David Hockney,1982



David Hockney, 1983



Unknown “kinetic” photograph, ca. 2000


Merging different layers of “reality”

Nancy Burson, Various Morphing Experiments, 1982-1985



Herbert Beyer, Poster, ca. 1935



El Lissitzky, Portrait of Kurt Schwitters, 1927



Dziga Vertov, The Camera Eye, 1932


Narratives

Lászlo Moholy-Nagy, Posters, 1927-28


Narratives

Richard Hamilton, Interior II, 1964


Narratives

hi-res.net, The Center of the World, Website, 2000


Narratives

John Baldessari, 1984


The reinvasion of paint

John Baldessari, Painting, ca. 1980



John Baldessari, 1984



M/M, Yamamoto Summer Catalogue, 1999



Christian Vogt, Polaroid, 1987



Andy Warhol, Electric Chair, 1971


Destruction

Andy Warhol, Flowers, 1964


Destruction

Painted-over communist party member photos, from the book 10 years Usbekistan, 1937


Destruction

Stills from the opening to the Movie Seven, 1996


Elimination as abstraction

Richard Hamilton, Ghosts of UFA, 1994


Elimination as abstraction

Statedesign, Trailer for Onedotzero 4, 1998


Photo-Graphic spaces

Saul Bass, Opening Animation for Vertigo, 1958



El Lissitzky, Der Konstrukteur, 1924, Cover for the Guide for the Vchutemas, 1927



Alexander Rodchenko, Books, 1925



Flyer, Royal Academy of Art, London, 2000



Gerd Kilian, 1932



Emigré Magazine, 1990



John Webber, 1991



hi-res.net, Requiem for a Dream, Website, 2000



Cornel Windin, 2000


Meta-Realities

Interface Sketch, 2002


Meta-Realities

Cornell Windin, Poster, 2000


Meta-Realities

Promotional Postcard for NY furniture store Moss, 2000


Meta-Realities

Psyops Studios, Cowflow trailer, 1999


Meta-Realities

Statedesign, Trailer for Onedotzero 6, 2000

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