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Talent

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Talent (1986), is a photographic work by David Robbins comprising eighteen photographs that depict contemporary artists such as Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, Jenny Holzer, Robert Longo, Michael J Byron, and thirteen others using the headshot portraits long-utilized by the entertainment industry. To make the 8 x 10, black-and-white photographs Robbins hired the James J. Kriegsmann studio, a company specializing in headshot photography. During the several-month long period of making the photographs in Kriegsmann's Times Square studio in New York City, Robbins functioned as the "agent" for the artists – scheduling the shoots, styling the artists' look, and paying the bill. The resultant collection of headshots were produced in an edition of 100 as, according to the Kriegsmann Studio, aspiring entertainers seeking work customarily order them. Talent updated the image of the artist from that of modern art's tortured genius to, instead, a more complex portrayal of a willing participant in the entertainment industry. The piece was instrumental in modernizing the art context for the Information Age. Visual artists such as Degas and Picasso had long depicted musicians, harlequins, and actors using fine art media, and the Pop artists had introduced commercial production techniques such as silkscreen to create images taken from popular culture, but Talent collapsed the distance at which visual artists had previously held entertainment culture. The eighteen artists featured in the piece include Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, Jenny Holzer, Robert Longo, Allan McCollum, Ashley Bickerton, Michael J. Byron, Thomas Lawson, Clegg & Guttmann, Jennifer Bolande, Larry Johnson, Alan Belcher, Peter Nagy, Steven Parrino, Joel Otterson, Robin Weglinski, Gretchen Bender, and David Robbins.

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Notable quotes

“Talent must be protected, especially if it's viewed as a threat. And what's more threatening to the status quo than a visionary?”
— Hilton Als on Alice Neel, The New Yorker, 2021
“To THINK BIG and to use our talent doesn't mean we don't have difficulties on the way. We will - we all do. How we view those problems determines how we end up.”
— Ben Carson, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story. (p.232)
“Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt. Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Torquato Tasso (1790) i, 2.
“Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.”
— James Russell Lowell, Among My Books (Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870), "Rousseau and the Sentimentalists", p. 356.
“A man with talent eats, sweats, and cares for his children like any other. And if talent is a natural thing, remember that water is also, and fire, and wind; therefore flood and holocaust and hurricane are as natural as talent, and can consume and destroy you.”
— Theodore Sturgeon, To Marry Medusa (1958), Chapter 4
“The man that wrapped up his talent in the napkin and said, "Lo, there thou hast that is thine," was too sanguine. There was never an unused talent rolled up in a handkerchief yet, but when it was taken out and put into the scales, it was lighter than when it was committed to the keeping of the earth.”
— Alexander Maclaren, p. 576.

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Overview

Talent (1986), is a photographic work by David Robbins comprising eighteen photographs that depict contemporary artists such as Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, Jenny Holzer, Robert Longo, Michael J Byron, and thirteen others using the headshot portraits long-utilized by the entertainment industry. To make the 8 x 10, black-and-white photographs Robbins hired the James J. Kriegsmann studio, a company specializing in headshot photography. During the several-month long period of making the photographs in Kriegsmann's Times Square studio in New York City, Robbins functioned as the "agent" for the artists – scheduling the shoots, styling the artists' look, and paying the bill. The resultant collection of headshots were produced in an edition of 100 as, according to the Kriegsmann Studio, aspiring entertainers seeking work customarily order them. Talent updated the image of the artist from that of modern art's tortured genius to, instead, a more complex portrayal of a willing participant in the entertainment industry. The piece was instrumental in modernizing the art context for the Information Age. Visual artists such as Degas and Picasso had long depicted musicians, harlequins, and actors using fine art media, and the Pop artists had introduced commercial production techniques such as silkscreen to create images taken from popular culture, but Talent collapsed the distance at which visual artists had previously held entertainment culture. The eighteen artists featured in the piece include Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, Jenny Holzer, Robert Longo, Allan McCollum, Ashley Bickerton, Michael J. Byron, Thomas Lawson, Clegg & Guttmann, Jennifer Bolande, Larry Johnson, Alan Belcher, Peter Nagy, Steven Parrino, Joel Otterson, Robin Weglinski, Gretchen Bender, and David Robbins.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Not who you're looking for? Others named Talent: city in Jackson County, Oregon, United States · television program, comedy · ancient unit of mass · Romanian television talent show

Notable quotes

“Talent must be protected, especially if it's viewed as a threat. And what's more threatening to the status quo than a visionary?”
— Hilton Als on Alice Neel, The New Yorker, 2021
“To THINK BIG and to use our talent doesn't mean we don't have difficulties on the way. We will - we all do. How we view those problems determines how we end up.”
— Ben Carson, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story. (p.232)
“Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt. Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Torquato Tasso (1790) i, 2.
“Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.”
— James Russell Lowell, Among My Books (Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870), "Rousseau and the Sentimentalists", p. 356.
“A man with talent eats, sweats, and cares for his children like any other. And if talent is a natural thing, remember that water is also, and fire, and wind; therefore flood and holocaust and hurricane are as natural as talent, and can consume and destroy you.”
— Theodore Sturgeon, To Marry Medusa (1958), Chapter 4
“The man that wrapped up his talent in the napkin and said, "Lo, there thou hast that is thine," was too sanguine. There was never an unused talent rolled up in a handkerchief yet, but when it was taken out and put into the scales, it was lighter than when it was committed to the keeping of the earth.”
— Alexander Maclaren, p. 576.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.