Lisa Oppenheim

Man holding large camera photographing a cataclysmic event, possibly a volcano erupting, 1908/2012 (Tiled Version 3). 2012. Gelatin silver print (photogram), 32 7/8 x 39 9/16" (83.5 x 100.5 cm).

This photograph feels like an exploration of the universe! 

So Lisa Oppenheim is a New York born artist who graduted from Brown in 1998 with a bachelor degree that focused on modern culture and media, art and semiotics. I am most interested in Lisa Oppenheim for the emphasis that she places on experimentation and process. An example of this is the her idea to not take actual photographs herself but to find images or textures that already exist and put new life into them. Lisa believes in transforming the image to explore how the image can exist and in this sense I think her work is almost a scientific analysis of photographs. A series called Lunagrams in 2010 is an example of her forensic approach - Oppenheim experimented with moonlight by exposing archival glass negatives during the night. Personally I love this approach towards art making I think she is an artist that really pushes the ways in which we consider a photograph.