For many visual artists, it is common knowledge that in order to gain popularity and to create a name for ones self they need to put themselves out there in the world for all to see. Whether they are a painter, a writer, an installation artist, or an actor they all require a pedestal to stand on and have their work be seen; for many the first steps on to the pedestal is by capturing their work through photography.
Today, photography is as easy as using the latest iPhone and the application Instagram – anyone can be a photographer and have their work quickly spread over the globe in this day and age which makes it increasingly difficult for those who are professional photographers. There are the current “instafamous” and “fitspo” bloggers …show more content…
Photography was used to capture these higher-forms of fine art and the process of a blank canvas through to a masterpiece oil painting. One artist of the early 20th century that used photography as a method of capturing his installation artworks was Marcel Duchamp. Duchamp questioned the very notion of art, and the adoration of art, which [he] found “unnecessary” ; he unintentionally began a series in 1913, known as Readymade (a term he used to describe his collection of ordinary, manufactured objects not commonly associated with art ), where he mounted a bicycle wheel upside down onto a stool. It wasn’t until 1915 when Duchamp had realised what he had created, he had manufactured ordinary every day objects into “retinal art” by simply choosing the object (or objects) and repositioning or connecting, titling and signing it. The first “pure” readymade that Duchamp created was titled Bottle Rack (1914), unlike some of his earlier readymade pieces; Bottle Rack was the first to be unaltered, giving it the “pure” …show more content…
After almost 10 years of working an array of jobs such as a freelance designer, art director and publisher, Alexander Liberman (art director of Vogue, the highly regarded art and fashion magazine) offered Penn a position as an associate in the Vogue magazine art department where he originally worked on layouts for the magazine before being asked to try photography. Penn’s photographic repertoire ranged from his fashion photography (which he was best known for ), to portraits of creative greats, ethnographic photographs from around the world, still life images of food, bones, bottles and metal
Today, photography is as easy as using the latest iPhone and the application Instagram – anyone can be a photographer and have their work quickly spread over the globe in this day and age which makes it increasingly difficult for those who are professional photographers. There are the current “instafamous” and “fitspo” bloggers …show more content…
Photography was used to capture these higher-forms of fine art and the process of a blank canvas through to a masterpiece oil painting. One artist of the early 20th century that used photography as a method of capturing his installation artworks was Marcel Duchamp. Duchamp questioned the very notion of art, and the adoration of art, which [he] found “unnecessary” ; he unintentionally began a series in 1913, known as Readymade (a term he used to describe his collection of ordinary, manufactured objects not commonly associated with art ), where he mounted a bicycle wheel upside down onto a stool. It wasn’t until 1915 when Duchamp had realised what he had created, he had manufactured ordinary every day objects into “retinal art” by simply choosing the object (or objects) and repositioning or connecting, titling and signing it. The first “pure” readymade that Duchamp created was titled Bottle Rack (1914), unlike some of his earlier readymade pieces; Bottle Rack was the first to be unaltered, giving it the “pure” …show more content…
After almost 10 years of working an array of jobs such as a freelance designer, art director and publisher, Alexander Liberman (art director of Vogue, the highly regarded art and fashion magazine) offered Penn a position as an associate in the Vogue magazine art department where he originally worked on layouts for the magazine before being asked to try photography. Penn’s photographic repertoire ranged from his fashion photography (which he was best known for ), to portraits of creative greats, ethnographic photographs from around the world, still life images of food, bones, bottles and metal