Galleries

Whitworth art gallery, Manchester

During of Anna's lectures she suggested to visit newly reopened Whitworth art gallery, which I thought was a good idea, due to the fact that they had an exhibition of photomontages. Below there is a couple works that I liked.  

The 1960s

Richard Hamilton 

Fashion Plate, Cosmetic Study 1969-1973

It is photo-lithograph, photo-collage, silkscreen, acrylic, cosmetic pencils and silver glitter on paper. 

Using various techniques artist created a colour photo-montage. It is a photoshoot in a studio. In the front there is a studio light and in the background white backdrop. Model is created using different people body parts. It looks like artist was trying to create a perfect girl.   

Media are always tend to show 'perfect' people ,so nowadays people are trying to remove their imperfections using cosmetic surgeries. In this collage artist made a cosmetic surgery just using paper and scissors. 

Peter Philips 

Untitled, 1964 

It is screen print on paper. 

It is a colour photo-montage of different kind of shapes put together and printed on silver paper. There is not only geometric shapes, but also parts of technology. 

This montage looks busy and complicated same as technology. 

Richard Hamilton

Interior, 1964-65

It is a screen print on paper.

It is a colour photo-montage of room. This room is created by using different parts of room from different photos. Between all the interior details there is a women. She is not separated from all the items, it looks like she is a part of interior, that she belongs there. 

Eduardo Paolozzi 

As is when: Wittgenstein in New York, 1965

It is screen pint on paper.

It is colour montage of two people surrounded by sky-scrapers. There is a plane at the top of the image and US flag on one of the buildings. Everything is created using geometric shapes. 

People themselves are created from machines. Inside them there is like a little machine with little people working. 

These two people are cyborgs. They look like people, however they are mixture between human and machinery. 

Foam, Netherlands

During my visit to Amsterdam, I went to Foam photography museum. There were some great photography work. One of the images reminded me of photo-collage. It was a black and white photograph of dead bird placed on a newspaper. Photograph by Ash Grey Prophecies, Flashbulb memories.

Format festival, Derby

Tiane Doan Na Champassak
Looters

It is a series of images of looters, all captured during the riots that occurred in England between 6th – 10th August 2011 and found on the internet.

These images looks like they were taken using CCTV camera. We can see their clear faces, but we still might recognise these people, which tells me that we have no privacy in public places. We will never know when our picture will be taken and who and for what kind of reasons they are going to use it.