My WorkTumblr (3.0; @ailsacatherine)http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/c22f591bc0850669682209a0c4d9988d/tumblr_mk91l0K2dD1rpn6b6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Angela Strassheim</p> <p><em>Evidence No. 2</em></p> <p><em>2009</em></p>http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/46312888250http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/46312888250Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:55:48 -0400artphotographyangela strassheim<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/7a84833133eac6e5a518b64cb2736fbf/tumblr_mk91gmIEAI1rpn6b6o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Carrie Mae Weems</p> <p>from <em>Kitchen Table </em>series</p> <p>1989-90</p>http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/46312707293http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/46312707293Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:53:10 -0400artphotographycarrie mae weems<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/45a81c1242791bce86b93e34a43e544f/tumblr_mk91cbEIKf1rpn6b6o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/835aac15ee259b3734b12a4ee91c3fc1/tumblr_mk91cbEIKf1rpn6b6o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>LaToya Ruby Frazier</p> <p><em>Notion of Family</em></p>http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/46312525358http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/46312525358Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:50:35 -0400artphotographylatoya ruby frazier<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/5320e8e058d49716ddcd4f353cc10fd3/tumblr_mk914mA0AT1rpn6b6o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/804d3241ddaaa8a5cdc0ff209f7b79a7/tumblr_mk914mA0AT1rpn6b6o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/b55281c78294e5754f324cd1285b562c/tumblr_mk914mA0AT1rpn6b6o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Jed Fielding</p> <p>Look At Me</p> <p>2009</p>http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/46312196933http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/46312196933Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:45:58 -0400artphotographyjed fielding<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/42cd62f00fa0fbf2b2b4903da10e3faa/tumblr_mk90un5eP61rpn6b6o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/da397a42a1412e87743a8469d9164bdf/tumblr_mk90un5eP61rpn6b6o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a0c39bab77110afb34524a29e8c56469/tumblr_mk90un5eP61rpn6b6o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Nicolas Nixon</p> <p><em>The Brown Sisters</em></p>http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/46311762145http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/46311762145Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:39:59 -0400nicolas nixonartphotography<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/a6b35cebbddabde098ae882bfefd2055/tumblr_mk90oaE1Q11rpn6b6o1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/b2bb82c5aac201d496b58bd456ab099b/tumblr_mk90oaE1Q11rpn6b6o2_500.png"/><br/> <br/><p>Keith Carter</p> <p><em>From Uncertain to Blue</em></p> <p><em>1985</em></p>http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/46311481177http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/46311481177Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:36:10 -0400artphotographykeith carter<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/be9fd193c49592fae48fceb490f94db5/tumblr_mk90iaSfEv1rpn6b6o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Robert Frank</p> <p><span>Ben James and His Wife, Wales 1953</span></p>http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/46311208826http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/46311208826Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:32:34 -0400artphotographyrobert frank<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/79c5a97dcd955772503eb030c942ec9a/tumblr_mk90dcMabl1rpn6b6o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Roy DeCarava</p> <p><em>Dancers</em></p> <p><em><br/></em>1956</p>http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/46310981060http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/46310981060Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:29:36 -0400artphotographyroy decarava<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/d68c0aeb42ffa9ad497b9bffa1b4d745/tumblr_mk908w4UVg1rpn6b6o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Mary Ellen Mark</p> <p>Tiny, pregnant</p> <p>Seattle Washington, 1985</p>http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/46310783174http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/46310783174Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:26:56 -0400photographyartmary ellen mark<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/eaac9856590b221df21455479c4842e4/tumblr_mk8zwwF9lR1rpn6b6o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/8ad3c181a788871f674df2eed646c75c/tumblr_mk8zwwF9lR1rpn6b6o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/4908a95f5735701c520102cf073098b4/tumblr_mk8zwwF9lR1rpn6b6o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Alec Soth</p> <p><em>Sleeping by the Mississippi</em></p> <p><em><br/></em>1999-2002</p>http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/46310223652http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/46310223652Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:19:44 -0400artphotographyalec soth<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/89b4f350288ea9302c620569b0c704b2/tumblr_mjj89zP48C1rpn6b6o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/9008fdf2d9c868aee261fa16e35e7998/tumblr_mjj89zP48C1rpn6b6o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/5ad541f704c72bbf48274a466b346054/tumblr_mjj89zP48C1rpn6b6o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/437fc3657a0b2169ba304291c8bdab1b/tumblr_mjj89zP48C1rpn6b6o4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/a84dc9901e814f46c611efcc650f751b/tumblr_mjj89zP48C1rpn6b6o5_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/20f25c078f868001656b14f6e496c1d8/tumblr_mjj89zP48C1rpn6b6o6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/3865524d44f85902d736c7b834e84743/tumblr_mjj89zP48C1rpn6b6o7_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Brian Sorg</p> <p>Davey Project</p> <p>2005-2011</p>http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/45172376753http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/45172376753Tue, 12 Mar 2013 01:22:47 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ba9725839027d709998b5ed835d75c5b/tumblr_mjj7pxCPt71rpn6b6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Sally Mann</p> <p>Damaged Child</p> <p>1984</p>http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/45171728524http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/45171728524Tue, 12 Mar 2013 01:10:45 -0400sally mannphotographyart<p><!-- more --></p> <p>In Roland Barthes&#8217;s <em>Rhetoric of an Image </em>he discusses different ways messages are conveyed through the use of images. I found this reading to be extremely insightful, and very helpful when thinking about my current project. I very rarely uses text in my work, and in doing so, I am experiencing difficulties. This reading really made me think about the different messages I am going to be portraying, some though the images and others through the text. His analysis of the image of the groceries was particularly interesting to me, especially when he pointed out that people from France and versus people from the rest of the world, particularly Italy, would read the image completely differently, and it is not just because of the language the text is in. I have been thinking a lot about how different people will read my piece when it is complete, and I think this reading has made me worry a little less about that, because no matter what I do, every viewer is going to read it differently. </p>http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/45171622557http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/45171622557Tue, 12 Mar 2013 01:08:52 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5xu7lL44r1r6nnf9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>A monk prays for an elderly man who had died suddenly while waiting for a train in Shanxi Taiyuan, China</p>http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/44905044392http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/44905044392Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:14:58 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f38a0657481b434b35728f23f1eeb3ad/tumblr_mhxkc2tL4s1qa6hruo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://1000scientists.com/post/42628831281/plank-piece-1973-charles-ray-ray-was-part-of-a">1000scientists</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Plank Piece, 1973<br/>Charles Ray</p> <blockquote> <div>“Ray was part of a wave of artists during the 1970s who addressed sculpture as an activity rather than as an object. In the iconic two-part photographic work Plank Piece the artist documents the use of his own body as the sculptural component. The static photograph belies the performative nature of the activity presented. Contrived through a complex balance between weight and gravity the artist suspended his body using only a plank of wood, creating a minimal, graphic image that is at once humorous and unsettling.”</div> </blockquote> </blockquote>http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/44904994384http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/44904994384Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:14:19 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/c6df65c9d9bdc50f8bcb2f275ed650ee/tumblr_mj3cot1yLZ1qins52o1_400.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/f818555b4a2a243488ba8a948bede239/tumblr_mj3cot1yLZ1qins52o2_r1_400.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3d8d04240dcb75a5da9bb0f210c09e8b/tumblr_mj3cot1yLZ1qins52o3_r1_400.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/600c98c9874cef8c361617824eb85b74/tumblr_mj3cot1yLZ1qins52o4_r1_400.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/fc9d988831d2496c12f2d23c5f49e4f7/tumblr_mj3cot1yLZ1qins52o5_r1_400.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/42eda08f51fad801f078b48c935a5669/tumblr_mj3cot1yLZ1qins52o6_r1_400.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/455852342de855cc37bb80662dbe1a53/tumblr_mj3cot1yLZ1qins52o7_r1_400.gif"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://carlosbaila.tumblr.com/post/44458098130/marina-abramovic-meets-ulay-marina-abramovic-and">carlosbaila</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNcWRbh8wQA">Marina Abramovic meets Ulay</a><br/><br/>“Marina Abramovic and Ulay started an intense love story in the 70s, performing art out of the van they lived in. When they felt the relationship had run its course, they decided to walk the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and never seeing each other again. at her 2010 MoMa retrospective Marina performed ‘The Artist Is Present’ as part of the show, a minute of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her. Ulay arrived without her knowing it and this is what happened.”</p> </blockquote>http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/44904964257http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/44904964257Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:13:55 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/6bf6a0b77e0ba9b94ee28320c76d237b/tumblr_mj8ud2bszB1qdt6e2o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/31ecdbc1ad82b0114310421ace642fd0/tumblr_mj8ud2bszB1qdt6e2o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/e70ddbbd55edd692c918594c518f4cc2/tumblr_mj8ud2bszB1qdt6e2o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/4fafe7014e89ee651d02abd790d0873f/tumblr_mj8ud2bszB1qdt6e2o4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://escapekit.ca/post/44732204651/bodyscapes-israeli-artist-ronit-bigal">escapekit</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Bodyscapes</strong></p> <p><span>“Israeli artist Ronit Bigal meticulously presents excerpts from sacred Biblical texts on the human body in her </span><em>Body Scripture II</em><span>series. Like Allan Teger’s </span><em><a href="http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/miniature-body-landscapes" rel="nofollow">Bodyscapes</a></em><span>, Bigal gets in close to the contours of the human form, re-imagining the body as an abstract landscape. On the grooved, fleshy expanse, the artist systematically applies black Indian ink calligraphy in Hebrew that reveals passages of scripture.”</span></p> </blockquote>http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/44904932029http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/44904932029Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:13:29 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/8c3e288a756926eb48ed12f627db786d/tumblr_mj468uOQul1qz9qooo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Sally Mann</p>http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/44833310180http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/44833310180Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:11:05 -0500sally mann<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzu3977zwt1roiroho1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzu3977zwt1roiroho2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzu3977zwt1roiroho3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://jessicapappadio.tumblr.com/post/44749165247/richard-mosse-from-his-series-breach">jessicapappadio</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><span>Richard Mosse</span></p> <p>From his series Breach</p> </blockquote>http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/44753328974http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/44753328974Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:17:40 -0500richard mossephotography<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/454460980e709bf35857b0d52b26d8f5/tumblr_mj6eodCIDX1rpn6b6o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/4affeb772ccaae7ffc489503192a9667/tumblr_mj6eodCIDX1rpn6b6o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a9c5f17069e1ac4e983a3cbf1b9d427c/tumblr_mj6eodCIDX1rpn6b6o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Garry Winograd</p> <p>Women Are Beautiful</p> <p>1957-75</p>http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/44606717923http://ailsacatherine.tumblr.com/post/44606717923Tue, 05 Mar 2013 02:12:13 -0500garry winogradartphotography