Recycling Photography: J. Wainwright

8/3/2019 Recycling Photography: J. Wainwright

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The marriage of film still s

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What triggered the mask series was that I was looking for postcards thatrepresented different metaphors for anteriority within the face, much as I had

used railway photographs to cut into the interior space of the film still BenLuke. Art World Issue 2.

-for this series Stezaker puts a postcard over a film still therefore obliteratingmuch of the underlying image-the way the postcards are placed lends a particular aesthetic to the work.

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- using strategies of blurring cropping and enlarging so that the image becamein some way intensified

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- growing up in a suburb of Boston used to go into Cambridge at the weekendswhere he discovered personality posters large black and white posters of

cultural icons that were marketed to college students and was fascinated howthey seemed to offer a ready made identity to the young person presumed to

be in search of one. So he put up pictures of Jackson Pollock and Franz Klinenot their paintings but portrait photographs of them

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-cowboy is an archetype-It is an advertisement something that would be just thrown away-It is a myth and he is re-contextualizing the myth of the cowboy but his pictureis photographic copy of the advertisement which was or originally a copy ofthe photograph-reusing of the image and the rexontexualising of it become important in termsof myth making

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-book was a critique on how to properly read photographs and a critique onwar

-each page of the war primer contained the photographic fragment and oftenwith its original fragment and surrounded by black- accompanied underneath with a four-line poem a photo epigram

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-there are fundamental differences in the images that Brecht acquired and theones we did

-the primer images also speak of image production

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- most of the images that they used were screen grabs what you would callpoor images

-in some cases they were very well known images that had been recycledfrom different websites and we are just making screen grabs of the internet

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-uses small found colour photographs mostly discovered in car boot sales orgallery boxes and dated around the 1950s

-Cockburns studio is full of cut up image scraps and saved images sissorsand scalpels-working over the original she will work with making new meanings-uses embrodiery and thick thresads

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-work it divided into exteriors interiors and people it often features solitarycharacters in simple landscapes

- cut and paste technique only depends on scalpels with which to cut andsculpt with which to cut and shapes and forms and to explore possibllities of

transforming an image into a designed documentary or narrative scene

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- collection that he has built up over the years acts as source material for hiswork

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- they bring together postcards of union jacks, and instantly recognizableviews of Tower Bridge, the Houses of Parliament, and Oxford Street clogged

with double-decker buses

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-Photographs of anonymous dead people were selected by Boltanski fromobituary notices in Swiss newspapers

-the lengths of fabric gathered around the shelves are shroud-like and alsoevoke the curtain of the crematorium-aside from this suggestion of 'memento mori' the harsh beams that spotlighteach face evoke references to interrogation and torture-these aspects together with the sheer scale of death suggested by the titleand by the repetitive presentation employed here have led commentators tofind references to the Holocaust - nominating the victims as Swiss, a neutral

people, the association is muted and allows for more intimate, personal andwider, historical reflections

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Recycling Photography: J. Wainwright