I just finished cataloging 19 images from News Photographer: The Best of Photojournalism 2007. I will be adding 2008 next week.
Clockwise from top left: Senator Obama dancing with a Grandmother by Pete Souza, Fire fighters extracting young man’s arm from vehicle after flash flood in Texas by Jerry Larson, Sewage flowing into ocean off the coast of Florida by Rick Loomis, Helicopter drops water on the Esperanza Wildfire by Gina Ferazzi
For those who are not aware, the Guggenheim turned 50. In celebration of it’s anniversary the museum has published The Guggenheim: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Making of the Modern Museum.
Images clockwise from upper left: Guggenheim interior concept drawing by Frank Lloyd Wright (1942-1959), “American Invention” installation by Lothar Baumgarten (1985), Cartoon from the New Yorker by Alan Dunn (1959), initial mounting of rods to hang art in ramp gallery (1959)
My current collection development goals have me scanning, editing, and cataloging images in the Documentary Photography genre. My first 19 images were from World Press Photo 05. These images are from photographers who have placed in the World Press Photo Contest of 2005. These photographers are brilliant and have a powerful eye for the human condition.
Images Clockwise from top left: Storm Chasing by Carsten Peter, Joseph Mosner: Injured Iraq War Veteran by Nina Berman, Homeless Man in Shanghai by Alessandro Digaetano, South African Aids Orphan by Brent Stirton.
I have just completed adding 16 images from Charley’s Space by Peter Doig to the Digital Image Database. These images are available to the SCAD community with your MySCAD Log-on!
Clockwise from top, left: Reflection (What Does Your Soul Look Like) - 1993, Echo Lake - 1998, Girl in White with Trees - 2001/2002, Gasthof zur Muldentalsperre - 2000
So I am pleased to announce that I have completed the cataloging of 1193 images pertaining to Mesoamerica on behalf of Dr. Jane Rehl in support of her courses: Ethnographic Art, and Precolumbian Art and Architecture of Mesoamerica (ARTH 383/385).
I have added 12 images to our digital image database from Threefold Sun by Taj Forer. There is an anticipation evident in his work. I felt like each of his images were a prelude to a mysterious story.
“Now, this ‘education towards freedom’, beautiful and banal is taught to us through Forer’s photographs of American Waldorf schools and the biodynamic farming system that Steiner also founded. Everyday calmness is held by a palette, at once serene and vibrant, that echoes the Goethean color theory absorbed by every Waldorf child. Beauty is present where we might expect it (a wall of sunny children’s paintings, a tree house), but mostly where we don’t (a slightly deflated yellow ball in a cement play yard, a sledding hill with not enough snow). Utopia is peacefully waiting: as an unseen ball on the roof; as a glimmer of brightness; as a patch of color; as the touch of mud. (Mavor, 11)” -from Threefold Sun
Maypole in January, Taj Forer, 2007
In my ongoing effort to provide Dr. Jane Rehl with imagery to support her course Ethnographic Art I have added 74 images from Aztec Art to SCAD’s Digital Image Database in the Visual Resources Center. These cover a wide variety of subjects. There are images of weapons, jewelry, sculpture, Colonial documents, serving ware and vessels, and much more.
Mosaic Mask Inlaid with Turqoise, Aztec, c.1350-1521
I have cataloged 7 images from The Teotihuacan Trinity. These are in support of Dr. Rehl’s course, Precolumbian Art and Architecture of Mesoamerica. These images are primarily reconstructions and therefore afford a good look at Teotihuacan design.
Reconstruction of Mixtec Mortuary Bundle (mummy), Teotihuacan
American Furniture, a serialized title, offers may fine examples of 18th and 19th century American furniture. The 2007 annual is edited by Luke Beckerdite.
I have added 14 images from this issue to the Digital Image Database, available to the SCAD community.
Trade Card of Benjamin Randolph, James Smither, 1769
I have added 25 images to SCAD’s Digital Image Database from Japanese Goth. The Gothic Subculture which had it’s origins in post-punk England has been adopted by many cultures world-wide. Each culture brings its own twist on the the original gothic punk styling. Japan in particular has what it calls Gothic Lolita. Where the juvenile and the dark are combined. From haunted dolls to child-like clothing for adults Japan has taken an outside aesthetic and made it its own.This title offers a wide variety of art genres in which Japanese Gothic style is the theme.
Celestial Music, Mari Shimizu, 2008
