The book is a series of Diane Arbus’s ‘Freaks’. A collection of square format black and white prints which celebrate the diversity of human kind. Dominated by portraiture, Arbus also reflects on interior spaces, almost like a anthropological study. She explains that she likes going into people’s houses and understanding how they decorate it. Her portraits are…
Category: Archives want to be Free
The Subversive
sub·ver·sive adj. Intended or serving to subvert, especially intended to overthrow or undermine an established government: “Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities” (Erica Jong). n. One who advocates or is regarded as advocating subversion When talking about subversiveness in terms of the creative field, the possibilities are endless. George Rodger was a…
Out of the Archives- Tim Linfield
A short post about a appropriating archives for contemporary art. Visually it appears that artists use collage by means of appropriation. However, Tim Linfield used book archives as the raw material. He encourage people to make their own books from old books. Rewriting the language as it were and questioning the typical structure of a…
Contemporary Archive Appropriation Collage
Contemporary archive art? Doesn’t seem legitimate does it? However, it appears that instead of creating bodies of work based on new media, artists are commonly looking toward archive sources to curate and recreate their own work with his own message. One common tool to marry old and new media is using collage. Take John Stezaker, exhibited at…
350MC Dream Portfolio
Choose 6 photographs that represents what you aspire your photographic practice to be like. 1) Donna Schwartz I chose this image not really because of the aesthetics: I prefer more natural lighting as opposed to a fill flash. However, the visuals in terms of composition is compelling because the viewer is drawn into the environment…