I also went to the "Out of Focus" exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery today.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/may/09/saatchi-photography-out-of-focus?newsfeed=true
Strange, bizarre, surreal, odd, strange...I found it interesting - it pushed the boundaries of my understanding of photography, but I'm not sure I liked it. The Californian portraits by Katy Grannan - incredible exposure against that white wall - the common element to all the portraits - but each character had something very sad to say - I think... almost as if they were hanging on to the past - hanging on to something that previously worked e.g. an outfit, a type of appearance, an image, but was no longer working. The coloured Ansel Adams-esque landscapes - not sure I liked the colours (although pleased in a way because I've altered the colours on one of my Assignment 3 photos for TAOP to enhance purple to a point where it looks unnatural - so this series gave me some validation!) - I think I would have preferred to see the images in b&w - but then have I been biased by Adams?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/may/09/saatchi-photography-out-of-focus?newsfeed=true
Strange, bizarre, surreal, odd, strange...I found it interesting - it pushed the boundaries of my understanding of photography, but I'm not sure I liked it. The Californian portraits by Katy Grannan - incredible exposure against that white wall - the common element to all the portraits - but each character had something very sad to say - I think... almost as if they were hanging on to the past - hanging on to something that previously worked e.g. an outfit, a type of appearance, an image, but was no longer working. The coloured Ansel Adams-esque landscapes - not sure I liked the colours (although pleased in a way because I've altered the colours on one of my Assignment 3 photos for TAOP to enhance purple to a point where it looks unnatural - so this series gave me some validation!) - I think I would have preferred to see the images in b&w - but then have I been biased by Adams?
There were three photographers though that I really liked - amd three I would hang on my wall:
- Sohei Nishino
- Luis Gispert
- Phoebe Rudomino
Nishino's collage/jigsaw puzzles of an apparent google earth type image, but deconstructed and reconstructed - one each of Paris, Tokyo and New York - very intriguing. Not sure I want to try it - would certainly teach me patience!.
Gispert views across the dashboard - bizarre yet very pleasing - I liked the weirdness of it all.
Rudomino - underwater shot at Pinewood Studios - a beautiful image and wish I knew how to do that!
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