DRAWING AND PHOTOGRAPHS

• Today, the styles, materials, and forms of art have expanded, and
drawing has become a vital and self-sufficient art form. However,
artists continue to use drawing to brainstorm and experiment, to
explore ideas, and to propose, hone, circulate, and chronicle their
works in other media. Sketches and formal compositions still
inform the practices of painting and sculpture, and now artists
might also draw layouts for installation art, storyboards for
performances, or instructions that are acted out by viewers.
• Contemporary Photography is actually somewhere in the
space in time between today, and the earliest inception of
the medium. There are no bookends to defining a period for
“Contemporary Photography”. It is a rolling and evolving
view of photography from a contemporaneous moment in
time. There are additional windows in this time period. Other
terms used for these other windows for looking at
photography might be “Vintage Photographs” or “Modern
Photographs” . What we refer to as a contemporary print is
not a label that permanently attaches to an image. Instead,
it is a reference to an image created that reflects our values,
challenges and perceptions today or, in reference to a
contemporaneous period for that image. 
• Contemporary photography encapsulates or reflects back to
us an opinion about our world today. The world is not static,
and so photography is not static. Values, societies,
philosophy, standards for living, technology, politics and
geopolitical realities constantly change. 8 “What we perceive

depends partly on what we have been taught to perceive.”