PICTURING SOUND: MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, CHEE KUNG TONG AND PHOTOGRAPHY IN NEW ZEALAND IN THE 1920sJOHNSON, HENRYNew Zealand Journal of Asian Studies
The list of directors with whom he worked reads like a history of American cinema, stretching from Victor Fleming and Allan Dwan in the 1920s to Sidney Lumet and John Frankenheimer in the 60s, with a number of landmark figures in between. Age: Dec. at 76 (1899-1976) Birthplace: Taishan...
in this canon of thought, has specific, observable effects. The technology itself always, to some extent, determines the outcome. The medium is the message (McLuhan 1964). Photography acts as a mode of capture, reinforcing colonial conquest and the male gaze (Sontag 1976); it triggers reflec...
Exhibition: 27 Apr – 10 Nov 2019 AGO Art Gallery of Ontario 317 Dundas Street West Ontario M5T 1G4 Toronto +1-416-9796648
Installation views of the exhibitionBenjamin Katz Berlin Havelhöhe, 1960/61at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne Photos:Marcus Bunyan Benjamin Katz became known in the 1980s as a fixture of the art scene in West Germany. He took portraits of artists such as Georg Baselitz, James Lee Byars...
The photographer — in the early days highly esteemed, later scorned, and in the 1920s restored somewhat to honour — plays in these areas only a subordinate role. While the amateur photographer is coddled by the industry in a frankly embarrassing way, the wishes of the professional ...
Ansel Adams was an American photographer who was the most important landscape photographer of the 20th century. He is perhaps the most widely known and beloved photographer in the history of the U.S. Many of his photographs were of national parks and oth
The clean lines and cool effects of this style—variously called the “New Objectivity,” the “new vision,” or “Precisionism”—was a reflection, perhaps, of the overarching role of industry and technology during the 1920s. Strand, continuing in the direction he had unveiled in 1917, ...
Photographer James Van Der Zee was active from the 1920s through the late 1970s, working primarily in his native Harlem neighborhood in New York city. Through his elegant portraits and images of social, religious and athletic groups, he created an intimate narrative about his community, showing ...
However, don't be obsessed with perfection. You'll barely find a perfect symmetry anywhere in the world. But as long is both halves look pretty much the same, the magic of the effect is there :) Symmetry is a great example of balance in composition. That's why it's used so often....