Bastienne Schmidt
A German-born immigrant who arrived in the United States years ago at the age of 25, Schmidt explores the ethos of America in relationship to nature as well as the culture’s traditional and contemporary gender roles and in Home Stills. Set in and around her home in eastern Long Island, this series of portraits is a form of self-discovery, logically following the artist’s previous work on home and identity. She draws parallels to Transcendentalism and 19th century Romantic painters and poets, incorporating references from those including Friedrich Schiller and Caspar David Friedrich whose quest for self-discovery was stimulated by nature’s unpredictability. Likewise, she references psychologically charged works from the Pre-Raphaelite era which present females as lone creatures, ring-fenced by their domestic surroundings. In each scene, Schmidt embodies variations of the archetypal everywoman – feminine symbols of the American Dream, both conventional and otherwise.
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Content
- ––– Project
- Dominik Gajarský
- ––– Profiles
- František Vobecký
- Emir Šehanović
- Paul Bogaers
- Jiří Černický
- Junsheng Zhou
- Mário Bihári & Björn Steinz
- František Drtikol
- Taiyo Onorato a Nico Krebs
- Július Koller
- Michal Heiman
- Gerard Byrne
- Christoph Keller
- Asger Carlsen
- Ryan Thompson
- Raplh Eugene Meatyard
- Tomokichi Fukurai
- ––– Discoveries
- Michael Borek
- Bastienne Schmidt
- Katarína Hrušková
- ––– Theory
- Materialization and Photographic Evidence
- ––– Events
- Les Rencontres d'Arles 2014
- ––– Fotograf Gallery
- Dušan Skala's and Jan Freiberg's Slow Photography
- Pavel Hečko
- Kateřina Zochová
- Václav Magid
- ––– Reviews
- Preserving the Legacy
- Jaroslav Rössler Avant-Garde Photographer
- Vladimír Birgus Photographs 1972-2014
- Present Day Critical Documentary Strategies
- Photography and Non-Photography
- Tales of Ancient Photographers
- How to Think About the Theory of Photography in the Czech Context?
- The Lives of Images
Archive
- #45 hypertension
- #44 empathy
- #43 collecting
- #42 food
- #41 postdigital photography
- #40 earthlings
- #39 delight, pain
- #38 death, when you think about it
- #37 uneven ground
- #36 new utopias
- #35 living with humans
- #34 archaeology of euphoria
- #33 investigation
- #32 Non-work
- #31 Body
- #30 Eye In The Sky
- #29 Contemplation
- #28 Cultura / Natura
- #27 Cars
- #26 Documentary Strategies
- #25 Popular Music
- #24 Seeing Is Believing
- #23 Artificial Worlds
- #22 Image and Text
- #21 On Photography
- #20 Public Art
- #19 Film
- #18 80'
- #17 Amateur Photography
- #16 Photography and Painting
- #15 Prague
- #14 Commerce
- #13 Family
- #12 Reconstruction
- #11 Performance
- #10 Eroticon
- #9 Architecture
- #8 Landscape
- #7 New Staged Photography
- #6 The Recycle Image
- #5 Borders Of Documentary
- #4 Intimacy
- #3 Transforming Of Symbol
- #2 Collective Authorship
- #1 Face