Insta-Con – Connie Imboden

connieimboden

For over 35 years I’ve been photographing the nude in water, often beneath the surface, & reflected in scratched partially de-silvered mirror shards

Some of the latest work in the mirrors continues t

Some of the latest work in the mirrors continues to bring familiar layers and forms together in ways I haven’t seen before, blurring the lines between where one body ends and another begins…
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#photography #throughthelens #fineart #transformation #illusions

A couple spots left still available for the upcomi

A couple spots left still available for the upcoming Visual Illusions Level 1 with @nordphotography_workshops!
LIVE through Zoom, every Monday between April 25th-June 13th. Details and registration link below and in bio 🙂
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Visual illusions are not only fascinating, they are powerful. It plays with the line between knowing and seeing. We think we “know” something but our eyes tell a different story. This class is about ways of exploring, discovering, developing, and utilizing the influence of illusions beyond mere tricks of seeing to compelling and poetic communication.
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Read more and register at https://www.nordphotography.com/visual-illusions-level-1

More recent work from early 2022, continuing with

More recent work from early 2022, continuing with this strange, ethereal twisting and transformation of forms. Some of these images strike me at how they almost make anatomical sense, and then the more I look at them the stranger they get…
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#photography #throughthelens #fineart #transformation

Visual Illusions Level 1 with @nordphotography_wor

Visual Illusions Level 1 with @nordphotography_workshops is just around the corner!
LIVE through Zoom, every Monday between April 25th-June 13th. More details and registration link below and in bio 🙂
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Visual illusions are not only fascinating, they are powerful. It plays with the line between knowing and seeing. We think we “know” something but our eyes tell a different story. This class is about ways of exploring, discovering, developing, and utilizing the influence of illusions beyond mere tricks of seeing to compelling and poetic communication.
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Read more and register at https://www.nordphotography.com/visual-illusions-level-1

The “Becoming” talk with @peterbruunartist and

The “Becoming” talk with @peterbruunartist and @kenroysterphotography was an absolute blast! Peter is such an insightful artist and curator, and I was delighted by some of the threads he observed throughout the course of my work- including this fascinating visual connection between a very early photograph (mid-1970’s) of a tree trunk and an image from my early explorations shooting in the mirrors.
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There’s so much more in the talk, I was truly impressed with how much ground we were able to cover in the time we had, and far too much to share here… so I’ll leave it up to you to see for yourself! Link below, and in my bio 👍
ENJOY!
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https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/689382596
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#photography #fineartphotography #blackandwhitephotography #connections #visualart

TOMORROW! Sign up for this FREE event to get the Z

TOMORROW! Sign up for this FREE event to get the Zoom link and join us over space and time for a discussion on the creative path and decision making!
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The second event in a three-part series hosted by @peterbruunartist called BECOMING, @kenroysterphotography and I will be discussing our creative processes and artistic journeys through a live Zoom broadcast on March 16th, 7pm EDT. Registration is open through EventBrite via the link below and in my bio!
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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/becoming-connie-imboden-ken-royster-tickets-253060319227?keep_tld=1

The second event in a three-part series hosted by

The second event in a three-part series hosted by @peterbruunartist called BECOMING, @kenroysterphotography and I will be discussing our creative processes and decision making through a live Zoom broadcast on March 16th, 7pm EDT. This online event is FREE, and registration is open through EventBrite via the link below and in my bio!
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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/becoming-connie-imboden-ken-royster-tickets-253060319227?keep_tld=1

You’ve left footprints in my heart…😂 • #H

You’ve left footprints in my heart…😂
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#HappyValentinesDay! ❤️
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#fineartphotography #blackandwhitephotography #photography

Recent work from 2022… • #photography #through

Recent work from 2022…
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#photography #throughthelens #fineart #transformation

Announcing the first actual LIVE, in-person worksh

Announcing the first actual LIVE, in-person workshop in over 2 years! REIMAGINE THE HUMAN FORM in ICELAND: Apr 3 - Apr 8, 2022, with @nordphotography_workshops
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Black sand beaches, electric blue ice caps, dramatic fjords, volcanic craters, and seemingly endless lava fields: a STUNNING landscape that will serve as the backdrop for exploring the human form. Registration is almost full, but there are a couple spots still available! Link below and in bio….
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https://www.nordphotography.com/icelandconnieimboden

Egon Schiele - The Dancer, 1913, and Untitled # 01

Egon Schiele - The Dancer, 1913, and Untitled # 01-12-16-192, 2016.
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Love the similarities in the gesture and overall feeling between these two. The mirrors in 01-12-16-192 give the figure the same hard edged and exaggerated limbs as Schiele’s rendering of The Dancer.
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#admiration #inspiration #influence #photography #fineartphotography @egonschieleofficial #egonschieleart

This just in… @nordphotography_workshops for Ear

This just in… @nordphotography_workshops for Early 2022 announced! Link in bio for more info…
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Image Articulation: Jan 19 - Feb 9
4 weeks, 3 meetings, Wednesdays 1pm-3pm EST Online via ZOOM
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Visual Illusions, Level 1: Apr 25 - June 13
8 weeks, 6 meetings, Mondays 1pm-3pm EST Online via ZOOM
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REIMAGINE THE HUMAN FORM in ICELAND: Apr 3 - Apr 8
LIVE, in-person workshop to be held in Úlfjótsskáli, Iceland - 10 participant limit
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It’s going to be a great year 🥳
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#photography #photographyworkshops #knowledgeispower #alwayslearning

January is always a time for resolutions- of looki

January is always a time for resolutions- of looking back on the past while simultaneously considering the future. January got its name before the year 1000 from Middle English, ultimately deriving from the Latin noun use of Jānuārius, equivalent to Jānus…
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When I made the image I call “Dead Silences”, I was in my second year of grad school. In a critique with 8 fellow students and the professor, one student mentioned that it reminded them of a “Janus” face. Rather than admit that I had never heard of “Janus” before, I nodded in agreement with most of the other students who seemed to understand what this statement meant. I did however research it afterwards, and was surprised at just how accurate this observation was:
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According to Wikipedia, “In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Janus is the god of beginnings and transitions, thence also of gates, doors, doorways, endings and time. He is usually a two-faced god since he looks to the future and the past.” Thinking of this, it is no surprise the ancient deity is the perfect symbol, the ideal manifestation, of new beginnings...
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Wishing you a happy new year, insightful retrospection on 2021, and exciting new beginnings in 2022!
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#Janus #mythology #fineartphotography #blackandwhitephotography #photography

More recent images as I look back on 2021. After a

More recent images as I look back on 2021. After a relatively low amount of shooting in 2020, this past year found me in the studio much more consistently, and I’m looking forward to continuing into the next. Cheers, and happy new year!!
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#photography #throughthelens #fineart #transformation

Looking back on 2021, starting with a few images f

Looking back on 2021, starting with a few images from some recent shoots and taking in a year of exciting new challenges and inspiring discoveries…
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#photography #throughthelens #fineart #transformation

Perhaps a freaky #FlashbackFriday… • Piet Mond

Perhaps a freaky #FlashbackFriday…
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Piet Mondrian once said “The position of the artist is to be humble. He is essentially a channel”. This is what it means to follow an intuitive process - to be open to expressions from a deeper place, and sometimes finding these expressions to be hideously difficult, uncomfortably revealing. Other times it forces us to confront a darkness we stumble upon spontaneously, but recognize instantly, and would rather run away from.
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I talk more about the creation of this image from 1993, Untitled #3725, The Challenge of Darkness and it’s presence in my work in the blog post below, also clickable in the bio. Have you ever been surprised or even shocked by images or artwork you’ve created? Have you ever been startled by expressions in your work, while at the same time identifying with their truth? Share in the comments!
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https://connieimboden.com/2015/05/the-challenge-of-darkness/
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#fineartphotography #darkness #creativeprocess #intuition #munch #edvardmunch #photography @edvard_munch_art @munchmuseet.no #admiration

Still photo of Louis Bouwmeester playing Oedipus i

Still photo of Louis Bouwmeester playing Oedipus in 1896, and Untitled # 09-04-13-287
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I am a huge fan of mythology, and it's no surprise that there are often echoes of mythological iconography in my work...
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Joseph Campbell once said that the main job of the artist is to take basic human truths, myths, stories, or complex emotions and state them in the language and context of the present. He references Jung's notion that when an artist is able to express from these archetypal sources, they are capable of speaking with a thousand voices.
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Although it is "Untitled", I refer to # 09-04-13-287 as Oedipus. In the Greek tragedy by Sophocles, Oedipus, King of Thebes, gouges out his eyes after unwittingly killing his father and marrying his mother. The same sense of suffering, of absolute physical and mental anguish, seems mirrored in the photograph of Louis Bouwmeester playing the role of the desperate king in a Dutch production of the play from 1896. In my image, one model is lit with a red filter over the strobe, giving a very raw, wounded, painful impression to those portions of the figure. There are subtle smears of red that appear over his eyes, like Oedipus, blinded and bloody. Although these details are graphic enough, I still have the sense that this figure represents more of an internal struggle, a portrait of a psychic battle in some dark corner of the mind.
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#oedipus #oedipusrex #greektragedy #photography #fineartphotography #munch #edvardmunch #photography @edvard_munch_art @munchmuseet.no

Another look at “Bacon & Me”: Crucifixion from

Another look at “Bacon & Me”: Crucifixion from 1933, and Untitled # 06-23-17-534 from 2017.
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For more, check out the blog post at
http://connieimboden.com/2020/03/francis-bacon-me
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#bacon #francisbacon #admiration #inspiration #influence #photography #painting @francisbaconartist

#WayBackWednesday • In my adult life, I've only

#WayBackWednesday
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In my adult life, I've only ever created one self-portrait, which was back in 1990 in my very earliest explorations into working with mirrors. I had just started to experiment with scratching, scarring, and de-silvering the surface of the mirror to disrupt its smooth, reflective surface, transforming subjects in front of and behind it.
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Many years earlier, as a young student at @marylandinstitutecollegeofart in the early 1970's, self-portraits were my primary subject matter. The same hands-on, anomalous spirit within drove me to cut, scrape, and even scotch-tape my negatives to transform otherwise straightforward self-portraits into expressions of the true identity I felt hidden beneath layers of social masks. While at the time I had no intention of creating such statements, the power of hindsight has made clear that they were revelations of my veiled insecurities, and my desire to conceal my true self.
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#fineartphotography #photography #throughthelens #fineart #transformation

I am consistently taken aback by the connections t

I am consistently taken aback by the connections that keep revealing themselves between my images and the work of Edvard Munch. Sometimes they are straightforward, and other times they create a link that is almost more of a reinterpretation, although no less direct. The merging of the figures in Munch’s “Kiss” from 1897 next to the literal merging of the figures in Untitled # 08-20-21-402 is a great example, and took my breath away when I discovered it.
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#munch #edvardmunch #admiration #inspiration #influence #photography #painting @edvard_munch_art @munchmuseet.no

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