Jessica Kaufman - Panopticon. Silver gelatin print (2006) [Tumblr Monday with proustitute] View high resolution

Jessica Kaufman - Panopticon. Silver gelatin print (2006)

[Tumblr Monday with proustitute]

Jessica Kaufman - Panopticon. Silver gelatin print (2006) [Tumblr Monday with proustitute] View high resolution

Jessica Kaufman - Panopticon. Silver gelatin print (2006)

[Tumblr Monday with proustitute]

Jessica Kaufman - Panopticon. Silver gelatin print (2006) [Tumblr Monday with proustitute] View high resolution

Jessica Kaufman - Panopticon. Silver gelatin print (2006)

[Tumblr Monday with proustitute]

Jessica Kaufman - Panopticon. Silver gelatin print (2006) [Tumblr Monday with proustitute] View high resolution

Jessica Kaufman - Panopticon. Silver gelatin print (2006)

[Tumblr Monday with proustitute]

Jessica Kaufman - Panopticon. Silver gelatin print (2006) [Tumblr Monday with proustitute] View high resolution

Jessica Kaufman - Panopticon. Silver gelatin print (2006)

[Tumblr Monday with proustitute]

Tumblr Monday 49 Jessica Kaufman (USA) - Panopticon. Silver gelatin print (2006) Thanks to proustitute for this Tumblr Monday to introduce Jessica Kaufman and her Panopticon. As Jessica says in her statement: “I approached this series as I have all others: with the intention to investigate, or call attention to, how identity shifts and changes when catalyzed by experience, and more dramatically, trauma. For this project, I again was drawn to the landscape as muse, but uncharacteristically chose one loaded with meaning, burdened with a history so cumbersome that I initially was afraid to pursue it. The title of this series, Panopticon, refers to an 18th century circular prison model that allows for secret surveillance of all prisoner activity through natural illumination. The subject matter is the grounds of Nazi concentration camps.  Far from being documentary in nature, these photographs are decontextualized excerpts through which I sought to dispose of most recognizable clues to the specific places, and focus on the surrounding, and surviving, environments in order to recast them as sites for new meaning.  The resulting images, mutated through a technical process that relies on decay as an operative force, do suggest trauma, but don’t require a reaction that encompasses a response to iconic horror.  Instead, I make this work in the hope of inspiring a dialogue between the viewer and imagery that fuses indeterminate disturbance with transcendent beauty.” [more Jessica Kaufman | Tumblr Monday with proustitute] View high resolution

Tumblr Monday 49

Jessica Kaufman (USA) - Panopticon. Silver gelatin print (2006)

Thanks to proustitute for this Tumblr Monday to introduce Jessica Kaufman and her Panopticon. As Jessica says in her statement: “I approached this series as I have all others: with the intention to investigate, or call attention to, how identity shifts and changes when catalyzed by experience, and more dramatically, trauma. For this project, I again was drawn to the landscape as muse, but uncharacteristically chose one loaded with meaning, burdened with a history so cumbersome that I initially was afraid to pursue it.

The title of this series, Panopticon, refers to an 18th century circular prison model that allows for secret surveillance of all prisoner activity through natural illumination. The subject matter is the grounds of Nazi concentration camps.  Far from being documentary in nature, these photographs are decontextualized excerpts through which I sought to dispose of most recognizable clues to the specific places, and focus on the surrounding, and surviving, environments in order to recast them as sites for new meaning.  The resulting images, mutated through a technical process that relies on decay as an operative force, do suggest trauma, but don’t require a reaction that encompasses a response to iconic horror.  Instead, I make this work in the hope of inspiring a dialogue between the viewer and imagery that fuses indeterminate disturbance with transcendent beauty.”

[more Jessica Kaufman | Tumblr Monday with proustitute]

Joni Sternbach (b.1953, USA) - Abandoned: 04.05.11 #3 | Prince’s Harbor, Staten Island. Ambrotype, 4”x5” [more Joni Sternbach | Tumblr Monday with proustitute] View high resolution

Joni Sternbach (b.1953, USA) - Abandoned: 04.05.11 #3 | Prince’s Harbor, Staten Island. Ambrotype, 4”x5”

[more Joni Sternbach | Tumblr Monday with proustitute]

Joni Sternbach - Ocean Details: 99.01.30 | Pola Neg. Platinum/Palladium Print, 4”x5” [Tumblr Monday with proustitute] View high resolution

Joni Sternbach - Ocean Details: 99.01.30 | Pola Neg. Platinum/Palladium Print, 4”x5”

[Tumblr Monday with proustitute]

Joni Sternbach - The Salt Effect: 08.04.12 #5 | Sun Tunnels. Unique tintype, 8”x10”  [Tumblr Monday with proustitute] View high resolution

Joni Sternbach - The Salt Effect: 08.04.12 #5 | Sun Tunnels. Unique tintype, 8”x10” 

[Tumblr Monday with proustitute]

Joni Sternbach - The Salt Effect: 08.04.07 #15 | Salt Storm. Archival Pigment Print, 30”x40” [Tumblr Monday with proustitute] View high resolution

Joni Sternbach - The Salt Effect: 08.04.07 #15 | Salt Storm. Archival Pigment Print, 30”x40”

[Tumblr Monday with proustitute]

Joni Sternbach - Sea/Sky: 02.07.10 #9. Gelatin Silver Print on Ilford MG Matte paper, 40”x50” [Tumblr Monday with proustitute] View high resolution

Joni Sternbach - Sea/Sky: 02.07.10 #9. Gelatin Silver Print on Ilford MG Matte paper, 40”x50”

[Tumblr Monday with proustitute]

Joni Sternbach - Sea/Sky: 01.11.22 #1. Gelatin Silver Print on Ilford MG Matte paper, 40”x60” [Tumblr Monday with proustitute] View high resolution

Joni Sternbach - Sea/Sky: 01.11.22 #1. Gelatin Silver Print on Ilford MG Matte paper, 40”x60”

[Tumblr Monday with proustitute]

Tumblr Monday 31 →

Thanks to proustitute for this Tumblr Monday to introduce the work of Joni Sternbach. As Sternbach says in her statement: “My photographs over the recent years have embraced the traditions of landscape, seascape, and architecture. The human imprint on these views is what concerns me. I search out relics and ruins reflecting that imprint to reference the past and our history. Working with a large format wet-plate camera, I scout locations that are close to or directly on the water. It is at the edge of the land and sea that the mystery of an abandoned past is revealed.” Hope you will enjoy as much as we do!

Nan Goldin (b.1953, USA) - Diashow Scopophilia, Paris (2010) [Nan Goldin on ARTchipel | Tumblr Monday with proustitute] View high resolution

Nan Goldin (b.1953, USA) - Diashow Scopophilia, Paris (2010)

[Nan Goldin on ARTchipel | Tumblr Monday with proustitute]

Nan Goldin - Self-portrait on the train, Boston - New Haven (1997) [Tumblr Monday with proustitute] View high resolution

Nan Goldin - Self-portrait on the train, Boston - New Haven (1997)

[Tumblr Monday with proustitute]