Diez’s light environments
“Colour acts with all its force on the spectator’s skin, objects and surrounding wall surfaces.”
Each chromosaturation installation is composed of three separate colour champers:
RED, GREEN, BLUE.
Food it’s like a social landscape.
Collection Real Food is not obeyer documenting snacks and meals in plain sight.
“I am showing food as it really is because we are surrounded by images in magazines where you see food looking glorious and beautiful, and we know that most people don’t surrounded themselves with food like that. It is like propaganda of food sales.”
The more stereotypes and prejudices that people are accustomed, the more he wants to make a different. Everybody’s prejudices is that British food os the most difficult to eat, then he went to the most unpalatable, let people see that these can also be so beautiful.
Small World (1987-1994) series further explore the tourism at that time. Travellers who travel by bus were standing in front of generations to take pictures of ancient ruins that have only been seen in book, this series highlights the cruel gap between high expectations and disappointing reality.
In southern Japan’s largest indoor swimming pool and artificial beach, people crowded with poor happy, 400 metres away there is a real beach, but no one is interested.
“Small World is about the difference between reality mythology of tourist location. When we get there it is often at odds with our expectations.”
-Martin Parr
In Common Sense series(1995-1999), Martin closer to his subjects, to observe like microscope to capture the modern society in every imperfect details.
Such as, oil on the satin dress, lipstick spots covered of teeth,and incomplete nails. These close up images contrast sharply with vulgar, hedonistic societies that are often overstated.
He stressed that photographs are subjective, the absurd details of everyday life are magnified to be so real, which leads to doubt, as if life itself is fals.
“I always wanted to show things as I find them, not as we imagine them. Why should I lie?” They are the things we like to filter out of our everyday life lives: inconsistencies both small and large, embarrassing outfits, or the most seemingly ordinary of things.
A “Satirist”.
A documentary photographer.
Satire is an attitude in many of his works.
In the 1980, Martin became famous for publishing a photo album – The Last Resort(1983-1986). At first glance, the picture is bright and warmth. Children with ice cream on their mouths, mother who changes diaper for child, a naked little boy playing in the river, but all the stories happened in New Brighton – a dirty, rundown beachfront resort in the vicinity of Liverpool.
People in the picture flock to contaminated coastlines, east hot dogs and ice cream with artificial colouring. Other people are keen on to photography good side of holiday, but Martin has shot out of the holiday people numb as an idiot.
“This is actually a satire and political complaint. AT that time we were always saying what a good country the United Kingdom is, but when you see these photos, you will find how sad the truth is , people go to such a terrible place to vacation, you see how much garbage.”
The subject of Rinko Kawauch’s best known work “Aila” which means “family” in Turkish is the depiction of the essence of life: animals, plants and people are shown in a sequence assembled by free association, which also includes both birth and death.
She talk about live and death, the senses and the fluidity of reality. Those photos of ordinary daily are very clear and beautiful, but if we look at carefully, my heart is heavy because is sadness and heavy behind the understatement photos.
Such as dead chicken head, dead bird on the road, flower and grandmother’s tombstone, newborn baby and grow old family, and a long black bug climbed over bathroom sop box. No one will think of the kitchen is a killing place when family have dinner together. People always can’t remember the importance and bad of the world in the life.
The world id beautiful, but it is morbid and imperfect. “Faint” is a very important part of her style, an unexpected impact hidden below this light colour, she successfully demonstrated the Japanese two different extreme cultural atmosphere. Below the depth of field and low toned are the frightening of life, and projection of self fear. In the all colours, the most terrible is not black, but clean white. Compared to the oppressive and frantic black, the mental collapse of white is more lethality. Through her photos, I know photos not only “beautiful” and “moved”, there are “discomfort” as well.
うたたね
Utatane
半梦半醒 in Chinese it means between wake and dream, it just like her work, she use blue a lot in images and some images are quite blurry in a way, like a dream like the real atmosphere.
She wants to see things outside of the photo. Her work focuses in ordinary things and everyday situations. and she use soft tone to show it. Her work is intended to show the unique pristine melancholy, she doesn’t use the illusion of light and shadow to create an effect, is just the simple composition and the angle of the image, she is entirely from the simple visual of ordinary people.
She records everything in life, including eggs, dinner, summer, watermelon, sky, flower are all can be her shooting theme. The work reveal the peace of mind, delicate and peaceful. A leftover watermelon rind, and a few grains of black seeds on a white porcelain plate, the colour is white, pure and clean, it is easy to let people fall into the imagination. I might think the person who ate the watermelon must be a simple, quiet woman with a white shirt. A broken egg lying on the table quiet;y, the moment seems split crack, it is difficult to guess if it is a small life to be born. The kind of seemingly unintentional shooting, but full of unknown imagination. Some people who first saw her work, like me, will be attracted by the quiet, comfortable and simple sense. However, we can slowly found the subject of shooting and the picture are two different things.
“Using graphic shadows and vivid colours, fabricates image full of symbols and ambiguity. She hides faces in deep shadow or turns them away which allows the viewer to identify with the subject and visualise their own narrative”
-IGNANT
Dutch photographer Vivian Sassen is one of the rare artist who moves between the two worlds of fashion and art. Her fashion photography is marked by strength and surrealism. “Hidden” is the style of V’s works, she hide the model behind branches, grass, covers, furniture and use strong colour contrast between light and shade. She let them stand in the shadow, standing in high light background or turned back, she also use body to block body to make an overlapping image. The body without face pose and dance in the overlapping space. This is all because her childhood memories in Africa. V has extensive black people around her. She repeated mentioned that she willing to own the black skin, she feels white looks like always naked, and disturbing.
Untitled for Carven, 2012
Obscured faces extraordinary colour
“Tends to treat the body as a sculptural element a malleable shape that combined with blocks of shadow and bright colour in arrangements that sometimes read like cut paper collages, bold and abstract but full of vibrant life.”
-Time
Untitled, Swan Song, Providence,1978
Swan Song Series, 1979
‘Swan Song’ show a metaphor of rebirth. It indicating the tranquility, peace and happiness, also show a rebirth, immoral spirited strength.
“All the images that constitute the Space² series feature the artist’s body in a similar interior space. For this particular image she blurred and disorder her body, while in others she excused herself in glass display cabinets. The title Space² indicates a concern not only with the dimensions of space but with the in which space is flattened by photography.”
(Krauss 2000, p.162)
Space², Providence, 1975-1978
Her body against the worn wall, and use dark pattern of wallpaper to cover the chest and lower body, also like took the wallpaper to be her dark patterns of clothes, skirt; it causes the body looks like integrated into the wall. During my research, though the concealment of the way to describe the space as uterus. While the integrate into the wake, it is not only to show the nostalgia of the old house and the old memories, but also a symbol of the desire to return to the mother(uterus), nostalgia for the intimate relationship between mother and daughter.
