GREG GORMAN "DJIMON SIDEVIEW" 1991Greg Gorman (b. 1949) is a renowned fashion photographer who established his reputation in the late 1980's. His bold images are most frequently created in black and white, which he considers the essence of photography. Gorman is well known for his stark, honest portraits of famous and infamous celebrities. His portraits are frequently void of specific backgrounds and are shot using minimal lighting to maximize contrast and shadows. He describes

Olitski did not typically work in small formats

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Aquatint and carborundum on Whatman paper

portraiture of youth

Scherman's allusions to both world and art history

This approach enables Astman to transcend the material nature of the objects/materials

that isn't necessarily apparent in the photos

What is he saying or urging us to do

Wall's subject matter commonly addressed socio-political issues or referenced feminist critical theory

The piece was produced as a mailer in the form of a press release for General Idea's FILE Megazine

he used his photographs either cutting out abstracted versions or painting directly over the photographs

cutting out selections or painting directly over them before finalizing the compositions on canvas