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Exhibitions Tagged #props

Vivarium

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive

Vivarium is a series of constructed dioramas by Dutch artist Dirk Hardy. For each Episode, Hardy meticulously designs, crafts and photographs a new world in his studio, creating meaningful narratives around topics like racial profiling, gender roles, modern working conditions and more.

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Haiti to Hood

Brooklyn Bridge Park – New Dock Street
 archive : 2020

By constructing sets of intimate living spaces, and positioning both Black and Haitian Americans in these re-imagined realities, Haiti To Hood examines the social dynamics within Haitian-American identity.

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#SETINTHESTREET

Annenberg Space for Photography
 archive : Photoville LA

An ongoing art project by Justin Bettman, #SetintheStreet consists of elaborate interior room sets created and built in public places.

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The Palace Wild

Annenberg Space for Photography
 archive : Photoville LA

Haddon documents the collaboration where the human figure as armature helps to breathe life into the original stories that the clothing is longing to tell.

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For Tropical Girls Who Have Considered Ethnogenesis When the Native Sun is Remote

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2015

Using 19th century ethnographic photographs as a point of departure, “For Tropical Girls Who Have Considered Ethnogenesis When the Native Sun is Remote” presents fantastical self portraits that question identity constructs and the psychological implications of iconography.

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Terrestrial Interjections

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2015

‘Terrestrial Interjections’ is work in progress examining how human beings project themselves along their own personal journeys.

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Historias del Paraíso

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2015

By using out-of-this-time and out-of-context elements I aim to sensitize the audience into caring for the planet and reflecting on the world that we shall leave behind to future generations. Through the conventions of staged photography I present a series of images based on the cycle of life.

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Events and Sessions Tagged #props

Jun 42022

Frame to Table: A Tabletop Styling and Photography Workshop

Learn to build and shoot a photo-worthy place setting from the ground up with Prop Stylist Robin Zachary at West Elm DUMBO!

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Oct 102021

Styling Beyond Instagram: Taking Your Prop Styling Skills From The Square To The Street

Have you discovered you love prop styling through Instagram? Do you want to know how to make a career out of it? There’s no shortage of opportunities—so it’s time to seize them, present yourself as a professional with versatile styling chops, and wow potential clients. I’ll show you how!

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Sep 152019

Frame to Table: A Tabletop Styling and Photography Workshop

Learn how to finally get that Instagram-worthy shot of your dinner party table using products from West Elm!

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May 42019

Image + Imagination: Creating Characters with the Camera

Join Mimi Haddon and Aline Smithson for a workshop that celebrates play and imagination. Both instructors have a photographic legacy of considering the performative nature of photography by using costumes and props to create new realities.

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Sep 162018

Place Makers: A Tabletop Styling and Photography Workshop

Build a photo-worthy place setting from the ground up with the guidance of tabletop and prop stylist Robin Zachary, and photographer and food stylist Kate Lewis, against the added bonus of a West Elm backdrop.

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Sep 242017

Placemakers: A Product Photography and Tablescapes Workshop

Build a photo-worthy place setting from the ground up with the guidance of prop stylist Robin Zachary and photographer Richard Gary, against the added bonus of a West Elm backdrop!

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Sep 232016

Perfect Props and Stylish Backdrops — Product Photography 2.0

Geared toward crafters, makers, and small business owners, this workshop will offer tips and tools to simply style, light and photograph your products and make them look amazing!

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Sep 192015

Photography Restaged

Artist Lori Nix, Lorie Novak and Rose DeSiano talk with critic and curator Saul Ostrow about contemporary photographers practices of “Re-Staging”. By employing handmade miniatures, reenacted theatrics and, elaborately staged room installations these three artists draw attention to the uncanny state of the real world.

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