Found Images
Description
To create "Pictures from the Street" Joachim Schmid sifted through torn photos that had been thrown away, then patched them together to produce entirely new images, thus bringing the practices of "found art" to photography. By contrast, in "From an Ethnographic Museum" Hannah Höch made montages by combining museum-quality prints with snapshots - still a form of found photography, but with much more altering and reinterpretation of the materials. This program explores various types of found photography, from styles that celebrate discarded photos to those that use Internet graphics as raw material for new work. Among other pieces, the video discusses Linder Sterling's "Pretty Girls" (1977), Robert Heinecken's "Are You Rea" (1968), and Wallace Berman's "Verifax" (1964), along with the groundbreaking book Evidence, published in 1977 by Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel.
Runtime
26 min
Series
Subjects
- Photography, Artistic (75)
- Mass media and culture (147)
- Art (784)
- Composition (Photography) (23)
- Visual literacy (198)
- Photography (189)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2013], c2012
Database
Films on Demand
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