Gregory Crewdson continues his mastery of the constructed photograph with "Untitled (murder mystery)." It is a narrative with a full cast of characters and is set in suburbia.
A 1950's photograph of an elaborately draped coat designed by Claire McCardell, he said, was replaced with a more rigidly constructed photograph of a cone-shaped coat by Cristóbal Balenciaga, an indication, though no guarantee, that a more structured Posen silhouette may be in the offing for fall.
476 Broome Street SoHo Through April 29 The constructed photograph, an arrangement that mates the seemingly factual with the fanciful, is explored by Kate Belton, a young British photographer who in this show has extended her work from interiors to landscape.
Few pictures here are constructed photographs, a mode now in vogue.
There have been instances of people successfully faking their lives, such as the Cosmopolitan writer who fabricated an entire relationship with a few carefully constructed photographs.
With more than 2,000 pictures, he moved the figures from one image to another in Photoshop, reimagining the domestic tableaus in a set of final constructed photographs from which he made this series of paintings.
One advantage of Dyer's attention to the minutiae of this strange world is the continual surprise of his descriptive powers; he approaches on-board rituals with an art critic's eye that sometimes renders Steele-Perkins's powerfully constructed photographs redundant.
Gursky is known for his almost-clinical aesthetic, employing a range of techniques, from single frame "small-format" shots, to digitally constructed photographs composed from a series of images.
Beyond his constructed photographs, Ronsiaux juxtaposes his end-of-times imagery with two installations -- one, a "printed swatch" of national flags from around the world, reimagined in different shades of blue; the other, a set of five blank, blue flags that ominously hint at the dominance of water in a post-thaw realm.
"It combines his fascination with astronomical photography, indirect forms of self-portraiture and the transmutation of objects and images," says Adelina Onicas at CCP. "Instead of photographing stars themselves, Tunks constructed the photographs using predominantly found and accumulated materials the process echoes the history of astrophotography and its astronomical pioneers such as Edwin Hubble".
They may not be as bleached and blurred and oddly cut off as those in the wide range of approaches in this show, which includes photographs of collaged engravings, scenes constructed with photographs of collaged engravings, scenes constructed with mannequins, daguerreotypes and stereographs.
