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Moreover, his work does not create typical collages. The images, instead of being assembled from a variety of media, are all painted directly onto canvas to resemble torn sheets of paper or wrinkled photographs. In “Sometimes a Cigar is Just a Cigar, and Sometimes a Pipe is Not a Pipe,” he works from a reference to Rene Magritte’s classic “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” and from a smouldering cigar; he exposes organic components of heart, bone and vascular tissue in boxed-off frames...
...York as a 24-year-old conceptual artist in 1964 at a time when virtually no galleries were seriously exhibiting photography as art. Photography was an overlooked medium in its commercial relationship to the art world, so much so that the young Bochner purchased a Walker Evans photograph from a 1965 exhibition for the now preposterously meager sum of $100. In this art scene which did not yet value photography, Bochner produced a series of innovative photographs that proved the medium’s potential. His seminal works would later help to elevate the status of photography as well...
This codified riddle of illusionism is taken one step further in the manipulation of his former perspective images through “surface deformations.” Bochner takes the negatives and photographs of his perspective series as the literal object and subject of his next exploration: “I would use the photographs and negatives that I had and treat them as objects. By changing it as a surface, the photo-grid in perspective becomes a map of itself through deformation and crumpling. I had a photograph developed, soaked it until it dissolved, let that dry and shrivel...
There was no interaction between the players and host Alex Trebek before the game, she said. However, she did receive a framed photograph of her and Trebek...
...Among the "illegal settlers," Hussain was told, was a Middle Easterner of particular interest to the U.S. In the police chief's office, with its vaulted ceilings, the Americans passed around a sheaf of photocopies, each bearing a photograph of a thirtyish Arab with wire-rimmed glasses and furtive, intense eyes. Next to the photo were drawings of how the suspect might look with long hair, with a goatee or clean shaven...