An already older but still interesting video interview with photographer Juergen Teller for TateShots, the Youtube channel of the Tate Modern Art gallery.
Juergen Teller turned his lens on the fashion industry with his Go-Sees series. Weary of the hype generated by model agencies desperate to sell him the ‘next big thing’, he decided to take the picture of every girl that came to see him on the doorstep of his studio. In this interview, Teller tells Tateshots how the resulting photographs expose the troubling power of the male photographer.

Photos: Juergen Teller | Source and video: the Youtube channel of the Tate Modern Art gallery | TateShots

The below video is one of the First Cindy Sherman’s super-8 films. “Doll Clothes” has not been viewed since 1975, the year it was made in. It comically crosses Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase with animated paper dolls in a sly, funny and clever precursor to the concerns that became signature elements in Sherman’s remarkable body of conceptual photographic work.

“Doll Clothes” was purchased with assistance from the American Patrons of Tate, using funds raised by a group of private collectors including Kathy and Richard S Fuld Jr, Monica Kalpakian, and Steve and Lisa Tananbaum in 2008

“Sherman’s 1975 animated short Doll Clothes, is among the pieces that bring Sherman’s early exploration of gender and identity into focus.  Paul Ha and Catherine Morris

Super-8 black and white film transferred to video, silent
2min, 22sec
installation

Photos and video: Cindy Sherman | Tate collection | Ubuweb

John Baldessari is widely regarded as one of contemporary art’s foremost conceptual artists. Based in Los Angeles since the 1960s, John Baldessari is one of the most influential artists of his generation.He turned his attention to photographic works often incorporating found film stills, trawling dumpsters for discarded material from which he created his famous photo-compositions.

A major retrospective exhibition titled “John Baldessari: Pure Beauty”,  of this Californian conceptual artist is held at the Tate Modern in London. The combination of film, photography and painting has become one of the key elements in Baldessari’s art. Beginning with his early photo-and-text works from the late 1960s, the exhibition includes his extensive use of found film imagery in the combined photographs of the 1980s, the irregular-shaped and over-painted works of the 1990s, as well as video, and concludes with his most recent works to date.

The exhibition will examine the increasingly elaborate formal structures which Baldessari introduced into his work in later years and which have become a key component to his art. Abandoning the standard rectangular canvas or photographic format, he has produced a series of works combining numerous images to create various unconventional formats.

John Baldessari: Pure Beauty shows more than 150 works beginning in the late 1960s and concluding with an installation made specifically for this Tate Modern exhibition. The Exhibition will run from 13 October 2009 to 10 January 2010 and is In association with Rolex and supported by The John Baldessari Exhibition Supporters Group.

Photos by John Baldessari | Baldessari Studio