Week Four - The second exhibition

This week we were putting together our next exhibition with the scanned images. In my group from the week before we all chose an image that we felt was the most about us, printed it and hung them up in our gallery.

Heather and Rachel taking a look around the new exhibition

My contribution to the exhibition

I felt like changing my image to one that was more about me, but since I already had something in the exhibition other things had to take priority. 


Overall, I found this project very boring. Everything else I have done in this unit was new to me, and therefore more exciting for me. I did know how to scan and I didn't feel like I learned anything new or interesting.


The book I found this week gave me some more examples of photographers who use text and photography together like Gilbert and George:

Cheeky Boy, By Gilbert and George, 1980
http://www.mutualart.com/Events/Auctions/Contemporary-Art--Day/417455374E0D9A0A/AuctionResults

Robert Barry
http://www.jpeg-heaven.com/page/171

I especially liked the work by Barbara Kruger:

http://www.dukevisualstudies.org/artsvis54/?m=200909

http://journal.geebirdandbamby.com/post/117547587/untitled-you-are-not-yourself-1981-by

http://suicideblonde.tumblr.com/post/12950498640/barbara-kruger

http://laflaneuse8.tumblr.com/post/3103801699/barbara-kruger-untitled-1987

I feel that her work relates the most to the work by Gilbert and George, because of the messages she conveys. However, I don't feel that her work is exaggerated at all. If anything, I think the simplicity in her work brings the meaning out more, because of that the images have a stronger feel to me.


Also, I found the series "Nature Preserve" by Jason DeMarte in the December 2011 edition of the British Journal of Photography, A different Take. It also uses very vivid colours and a combination of photography and digital montage, similar to Gilbert and George's more exaggerated work:

All of those: pp. 50-57