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Context - While digital photography marked technological progress, there was an attack on high art after minimalism (especially in process, body and installation art)

Subject matter -On the green side of the modern bridge, a few people are enjoying lunch on the grass

Form - This work tends towards painterly compositions and even narrative themes, often more akin to figurative painting or classical film in terms of raw or direct photography.

Medium - digital image  collage and montage

Meaning - In this way, even as Wall tried to redefine the "painting of modern life" in contemporary photography, he wanted to redeploy its social critique -- to expose new myths of capitalist society

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Andreas Gursky (b. 1955)

Toys “R” Us (1999)

#deterritorialistaion

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Saburo Murakami (1925-1996)At One Moment Opening Six Holes (1955)

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Saburo Murakami (1925-1996)
At One Moment Opening Six Holes (1955)

Medium
#paper # ??

Form
#human_poses #white_dressing #giant_paper

Subject Matter
#running #break

Contexts
> done in the "1st Gutai Art Exhibition" (Ohara Kaikan hall, Tokyo, October 1955)

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Cory Arcangel (b. 1978)
Super Mario Clouds (2002)

medium
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form
#pixel_image #video_game

subject matter
#cloud #animation #void

context
#hacking_culture

meaning
#machinema #formalistic_beauty #hacking

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context:The artwork consists of a large single image with a highly elongated panoramic scene underneath. In the large image above, a man apparently sleeping is lying on his back on a battered sofa, his head and an arm falling off the edge.The scene below is set in a seemingly stately home. Figures in jeans or plush ball gowns stand and sit in the space.A woman, whose image is repeated, appears to scream as she clutches at two pillars.
(Jeff: you wrote about the context NOT CONTENT which means the background conditions e.g. the pose and setting mimic  Henry Wallis’s The Death of Chatterton (1865), the framing generate a storyline, which is similar to the style in Renaissance (e.g. Master of the Morrison Triptych))

subject matter:
Focusing on the character and combing the environment.It based on the dialogue between the means provided by modernity (photography, video and film) and certain key elements.
(Jeff: What is the character - man, female, rich, professional, deading, sleeping ?)

Form:
The picture consists of two photographs, forming a visual contrast and some kind of actual connection.

Medium:
Photography
(Jeff: staged photography or snapshot ?)

Meaning:
The artwork shows the different sense of form between the upper and the lower, between the sublime and the material, at the same time between the immaterial and the material.And the artist would try to integrate them into a whole picture.And  focusing on consciousness and unconsciousness.

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Andreas Gursky (b. 1955)
Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank (1994)

#city-scape #photography #geometric

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Context：Toys "R" Us is an American toy, clothing, and baby product retailer. It was founded in April 1948.The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on September 18, 2017, In March 2018, the company announced that it would close all of its U.S. and British stores.
Subject matter：
the building of TOYS R US’s factory，suburban area，the cement road
form ：The white rectangular wall with a striking colored logo contrasts with the black tarmac in front
medium ：Photography
Meaning： The work shows a minimalist abstract style, with a clear contrast between the large white area on the main wall of the building and the bold toy logo. The empty street gives a feeling of depression and decay, which seems to imply the atrophy of traditional industry.

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Context:The symmetrical shape of the building gives it a solid appearance. The combination of steel and large areas of glass has a technological and modern feel.

Subject matter:A brightly lit building ➕ staff working late at night

Form:The symmetrical shape of the building and the triangular structure of the red area, as well as the clear black and white divisions. These are clearly geometric and give a strong visual impression.

Medium:Photography

Meaning:The work is a true representation of the fast-paced daily life of Hong Kong. This is an inevitable trend in society, where the pace and pace of work must be accelerated in order for the economy to grow, and with this comes the tension of work and late nights. The contrast between the beautiful architecture and the weary workers in the buildings is striking.

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Context：The design of the building looks very expensive. There are countless floors. From the appearance of the structure, it is a very three-dimensional feeling, I believe that the employees working here are wealthy.

Subject matter ：The economy prospered because of employees working late at night—— reflecting the current 996 culture.

Medium：photography，reality，and truth.

Form：Almost every cubicle is lit, and white + black becomes the dominant color.

Meaning：Mankind's excessive devotion to work and production has led to a society of labor, where all forms of life are reduced to the level of toil. Everyone has no individuality and is completely immersed in a torrent of life controlled by communal affiliations. We see prosperity, but also human tension and busyness, without the opportunity to enjoy freedom and leisure.

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Shapolsky et al. Manhattan Real Estate Holdings

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Shapolsky et al. Manhattan Real Estate Holdings

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Context:
Shapolsky et al. Manhattan Real Estate, one of the largest slumlords in New York City, began a two-decade fraudulent activities through illegal methods since the 1950s, which deliberately concealed real estate ownership and granted fiscal advantages.

Subject matter:
buildings, typewritten sheets, data about the property

Form:
The picture is divided into two from top to bottom: the top is the real estate elevation photos, the bottom is the real estate related data. Both of them look like very old in grey and yellow.
(Jeff: what is the presenting form/format of the documents (sheet, data, photos)

Medium:
Trial case record file
(Jeff: documents, documented photographs)

Meaning:
Through the real graphical and digital data, the artist explained how Shapolsky operate the entire fraudulent real estate network.

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HK skyline + Employees in the urban night + Enclosed geometric space + photo =The status of man under the capitalist system

1.Context:
HSBC Building is a ground-breaking and high-tech skyscraper that is designed by Norman Foster. It is the symbol of Hong Kong's financial metropolis brand.

2.Subject matter:
The brightly lit office, the employees working overtime

3.Form:
All the central visual elements are confined within three geometric spaces which is extremely well-defined.

4.Medium:
Photography can truly reflect and record real events

5.Meaning:
Through a real time glimpse of HK urban symbol, the audience is invited in the self-reflection on the current state of human dependence on commercial organizations and re-cognition of the status of modern urban people.

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Context -
This is a photograph of the HSBC building, shot by Andreas Gursky in the year 1994. It was built by Norman Foster and is a technologically advanced architecture.

Subject matter -
Shows a building heavily lit with white light. The white light is from the work desks of the employees who are working late into the night.

Form -
A well defined rectangular skyscraper with plenty of windows(made of glass). The contrast between the dark background a neon-like white color from the lights, makes it very aesthetic.

Medium -
Photography/ Camera

Meaning -
A look into the reality of the workforce. Though the picture looks vibrant, there is something monotone about it. It reflects the tired workforce, working overtime and falling prey to he corporate world. Maybe, all that glitters in not gold, after all.

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Context

-Toys "R" Us is an American toy, clothing, and baby product retailer owned by Tru Kids, Inc, founded in 1984, operated stores in & outside of the U.S.

- Andreas Gursky is well known for his large-scale photographs and images that portray emblematic sites and scenes of the global economy and contemporary life (Berry, 2018)

https://craigberry93.medium.com/large-format-3e5e956caaba

- the photo was taken during the age of Millennials, tons of skyscrapers and model buildings were built; computer CG and digital processing techniques were invented and applied to many fields of art including photography.

Subject matter

- suburban area

- the building of TOYS R US’s factory/big-box stores

- the building of TOYOTA’s factory/big-box stores

- the cement road

Form

- Cold color-based.

- The image is full of blank and cold white, with the sign of “TOYS R US” and “TOYOTA” standing conspicuously and separately on each side of the scene.

Medium

Photograph: Color coupler print face-mounted on Plexiglas

Meaning

- although the subject matter of this photo is a modern building, the composition’s blankness gives the viewer a feeling of watching a scene of the extensive natural landscape.

- a sense of estrangement

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Context: US
Subject Matter: TOYS "R" US warehouse
Form: Two white rectangular contrast with the black tar road in the front
Medium: Photography
Meaning: Emptiness, decay business in the suburb

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Context:What this picture shows  a mansion was ablaze in the darkness. It is hongkong and shanghai bank.It was shot by Andreas Gursky in 1994.

Subject matter: In the building, office workers are still working late at night.

Form: The whole picture is dominated by rectangular mansions ,which contain many small rectangular windows.

Medium: The photographer shot it with his camera.

Meaning: It embodies the daily work of contemporary people in hongkong. It is worth reflecting on what workers have lost in the pursuit of efficiency. In the process of accelerating modernization, What does workers bring to society？

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*Large toy factory + photo photography + head-up composition, color contrast + minimalist aesthetics, long industrial history = industrial update speed block, traditional industries are struggling

Subject (Matter):
This Toys "R" Us by Andreas Gursky shows two white buildings resembling large-scale factories built on the opposite side of a deserted road. Above it is a bunch of interlaced wires.

Medium:
Photograph

Form:
The whole picture shows that the camera angle is horizontal, and almost all the lines are almost vertical or parallel. The two buildings of TOYOTA and TOYS"R"US constitute the angular perspective of the work, even making the logo "TOYS"R"US" the visual center point. In addition, the entire work uses three colors of black, white and gray in a large area, which contrasts sharply with the bright colors formed by the logo.

Context:
Under the aesthetics of minimalism, the deserted streets and oxidized exterior buildings seem to indicate that this place has been established for a long time. Only the colorful logo gives people a sense of familiarity, indicating its glorious years.

Meaning:
It seems to imply that due to modern development, the business industry is renewed very quickly, and brands with a long history are struggling to persist.

(Jeff: The subject is City, urban / modern development)

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Context: Toys “R”Us,founded in 1948,was America’s most famous toy store.Sadly the company went bankrupt and closed all its U.S. stores in 2017.

Subject matter: Buildings ,two walls, streets

Form: Two walls with the logo of“Toys "R" US, the dense and empty antenna above,and the empty streets.The grayish-white hue gives the impression of an abandoned factory.

Meaning: The artist captured a corner of the bankrupt Toys "R" US by photography, telling the loneliness and stillness of this bustling place and reflecting the reflection on the capitalist society.