Malerie Marder

Next up is Malerie Marder. I really love looking at all this work - it fascinates me to the point where I'm almost addicted to it. Figure I'll spend the week getting up to speed with the photographic art world before I start to make more images. The more I feed on this the more I will understand the process which will guide me a bit away from my formal portrait photographic training. I find this a bit challenging because when I look at things like harsh light and shadows I take off points in my photographic competitions - but there is a realness in these images that you don't find in something so polished.

Malerie's images too seem to be cinematic in quality. The black and white images seen below are from her book "Carnal Knowledge" are of family, friends and herself all in the nude. Actually most of Malerie's images are done in the nude. Again they address intimacy and separation. Her work has to do with privacy and secrecy. Intimacy, non-intimacy, voyeurism, connection, lack of connection, etc.

Sarah Jones

Here's a few images by Sarah Jones, British photographer. I don't actually know if the top one is by her or someone else but it's an interesting image so I kept it in.

Dana Hoey

Dana Hoey also was a part of "Another Girl, Another Planet". Here's a website with a bunch of her exhibitions. http://www.petzel.com/artists/dana-hoey/

I'm pretty fascinated by "The Phantom Sex" since it reminds me of sorts of what I did in mine although less refined and cliche which makes it much more interesting. Again it shows me how I was too literal in my interpretation and leaving it vague give much more power to the image.

Jitka Hanzlova

These are the photos of Jitka Hanzlova. Simple and yet riveting.

Here's a quote from her bio found at http://www.artspace.com/jitka_hanzlova

JITKA HANZLOVA 

 

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Born: 1958

Hometown: Nachod, Czech Republic

Lives and Works: Essen, Germany

Education: University of Essen, Essen, Germany, 1994

Jitka Hanzlova Bio

About The Artist

Born in 1958, Jitka Hanzlova grew up in Communist Czechoslovakia before fleeing her home country and seeking asylum in Germany in 1982. Influenced by her own life experiences in exile as well as recollected childhood memories, her practice revolves around photographic series that examine the identity of individuals, primarily women, set in their local environments. Hanzlova uses a strict vertical format to capture her subjects and pays particular attention to the effects of light, using its transcendental qualities to confer the significance of each subject's surroundings. Playing with both intimacy and distance, Hanzlova captures the provocative singularity of an individual set against the sociological categories defined by his or her environment.

Hanzlova gained international recognition for her series Rokytnik (1990—1994) and Female (1997—2000). She has received numerous awards in the field of photography including, the Prix Otto Steinert in 1993, the European Photography Award in 1995, the Grand Prix Award in 2003, and the 2007 BMW—Paris Photo Prize for Contemporary Photography. 

Jitka Hanzlova Gallery Art

Galleries

Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Georg Kargl, Vienna, Austria

Katy Grannan

Here's another photographer from the "Another Planet" bunch with some really great character studies... Katy Grannan. Love, love, LOVE these. It's the hard look with the vulnerability. The simplicity of the image and background, the harsh light of the sun. I both feel like I know the characters and that I don't know them at all and there is a mystery that makes me want to keep looking.