Chris Gunn
Chris Gunn
USA
Practice: Photography
Gunn is very interesting. None of Gunn’s past work (including music industry based works) features on his website as he feels that he and his imaging making is now in a different place and that although he is connected to his past, he also is not. This is reassuring in my current creative space as I find myself severed from my past work. Gunn produces exceptional images with his application of light, composition, and ability to convey scale and space.
When asked about the rights and licensing of his images Gunn explains that the images are public domain. On further prompting, the “technician” continues that the images can be used by anyone and are also not the property of NASA.
Untitled (Self portrait), Chris Gunn 2014
Relevance to practice
Gunn’s attitude to past work and letting it go is an interesting perspective, much like my own.
Keywords
Chris Gunn, NASA, Astronomy, Telescope, Observatory, Documentary photography, Space station, Technology
References
B&H Photography Podcast 2020, Space Odyssey - Photographing the James Webb Space Telescope with Chris Gunn, podcast, B&H Photo Video, viewed 26 April 2020, <https://open.spotify.com/episode/2x21mYQLU4sOiyrpZdlDj4>
Gunn, C 2014, Self-portrait, photograph, viewed 26 April 2020, <https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/46741910804>
Garner, RM & Jarrell EM 2012, Chris Gunn – A Disciplined Creativity, NASA, viewed 26 April 2020, <https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/about/people/gunn-og.html>
Lee Miller
Lee Miller
USA
1907–1977
Practice: Model; War correspondent; Photography
Movement/Style: Surrealism, Photojournalism, Documentary
Lee Miller was an American artist who refused to be defined by her gender, beauty or age. Miller was a high-end fashion model, muse to several of the great Surrealists, a photographer, actor and one of the only female war correspondents to be credentialed during WWII, with Miller’s reportage and images, including a powerfully emotive series of photographs from the WWII death camps, published in American Vogue.
Lee Miller, Inmates of the German KZ Buchenwald, 1945
Lee Miller, Portrait of Space, 1937
Keywords
American, Artist, Gender, Beauty, Age, Artistic practice, Model, Muse, Surrealism, Photographer, Actor, War correspondents, World War II, Independent, Bohemian, Society, Traditional, Gender roles, Innovative, Landscapes, Strange, Pre-war Paris, Film, Picasso, Man Ray, Lee Miller Archive
Bibliography
Miller, L 1945, Inmates of the German KZ Buchenwald, photograph, viewed 4 April 2020, <https://www.all-about-photo.com/photographers/photographer/482/elizabeth-lee-miller>
Miller, L 1937, Portrait of Space, photograph, viewed 22 March 2020, <https://www.theartstory.org/artist/miller-lee/artworks/>
NSU Art Museum 2015, The Indestructible Lee Miller, viewed 4 April 2020, <https://nsuartmuseum.org/exhibition/the-indestructible-lee-miller/>
The Art Story n.d., Lee Miller, viewed 18 March 2020, <https://www.theartstory.org/artist/miller-lee/>