BIG APPLE, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will function the unique work of Brian Sesack in Chelsea International Advantageous Artwork Competition Exhibition. Photography as an artwork form arose from developments in technology which allowed photographers to control their pictures to suit their artistic expression. This nervousness over photography’s status was shared by biographers, artwork historians and curators who glossed over the business components of photographers’ careers as a way to secure their recognition as artists.
The medium – now generally taking the type of silver-based mostly prints with a ‘black-and-white’ appearance – was used by Dada in Germany for works of biting social critique – see, as an example, Dada photomontages by Raoul Hausmann (1886-1971), Hanna Hoch (1889-1978) and John Heartfield (Helmut Herzfeld) (1891-1968) – by Constructivism in the Soviet Union to forge new pictorial modes for a new society; by surrealist artists like Man Ray (1890-seventy six) in Paris, in their visual jests and explorations of the unconscious; … Read More