Photography sculpture

Robert Heinecken

"...the clumsiest narratives are often the narratives that assume prescribed movement from A to B. "

Found photos collected from flea markets and thrift stores are sewn into sculpture and wall pieces in Lisa Kokin’s meditations on identity and anonymity.

UK artist Matthew Stone's evocative sculptures use a combination of photography and architectural techniques. He frames the human body in geometric, 3D structures; the models in his images lie poetically contorted like the languid figures in Renaissance paintings. Stone also dabbles in performance art centered around the body, finding inspiration in the political and spiritual art of the 20th-century German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys. Take a look at some images of his sculptures courtesy of…

Artist Justine Khamara transforms her portrait photography into intricate and wonderfully distorted cut sculptures. Khamara starts with a photo of a face or body part, and then takes a knife, or la...

Parsons is currently hosting an exhibition of MFA Photography thesis work from the class of 2009. Fifteen graduates display the fruits of their labor after completing 3 intensive eight-week summer residencies and 2 years of independent studies. The works on view are impressive and definitely display fresh and exciting talent. Some of my favorite pieces include Lauren Pascarella's Photographic Sculpture, Daniel Durtsche's T.F. (Rotated 3,600 times) and Spectrum (Moved, scaled, and rotated…

From the recreation of a seminal 1970 exhibition to Robert Heinecken's retrospective at MoMA to experimental work by emerging artists, this is the summer of the photosculpture. Here's our guide to the historically overlooked medium.

Just before a public lecture, as an apocryphal story has it,{{1}}[[1]]In a recent conversation about Heinecken and his practice, Anne Wilkes Tucker reminded me of this story.[[1]] a slide tray was dropped and the slides fell out and onto the floor. The speaker, Robert Heinecken, asked that the slide