Ailsa Catherine

My Work

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Angela Strassheim

Evidence No. 2

2009

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Carrie Mae Weems

from Kitchen Table series

1989-90

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LaToya Ruby Frazier

Notion of Family

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Jed Fielding

Look At Me

2009

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Nicolas Nixon

The Brown Sisters

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Keith Carter

From Uncertain to Blue

1985

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Robert Frank

Ben James and His Wife, Wales 1953

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Roy DeCarava

Dancers

1956

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Mary Ellen Mark

Tiny, pregnant

Seattle Washington, 1985

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Alec Soth

Sleeping by the Mississippi

1999-2002

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Brian Sorg

Davey Project

2005-2011

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Sally Mann

Damaged Child

1984

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Roland Barthes

In Roland Barthes's Rhetoric of an Image he discusses different ways messages are conveyed through the use of images. I found this reading to be extremely insightful, and very helpful when thinking about my current project. I very rarely uses text in my work, and in doing so, I am experiencing difficulties. This reading really made me think about the different messages I am going to be portraying, some though the images and others through the text. His analysis of the image of the groceries was particularly interesting to me, especially when he pointed out that people from France and versus people from the rest of the world, particularly Italy, would read the image completely differently, and it is not just because of the language the text is in. I have been thinking a lot about how different people will read my piece when it is complete, and I think this reading has made me worry a little less about that, because no matter what I do, every viewer is going to read it differently. 

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A monk prays for an elderly man who had died suddenly while waiting for a train in Shanxi Taiyuan, China

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Plank Piece, 1973 Charles Ray

“Ray was part of a wave of artists during the 1970s who addressed sculpture as an activity rather than as an object. In the iconic two-part photographic work Plank Piece the artist documents the use of his own body as the sculptural component. The static photograph belies the performative nature of the activity presented. Contrived through a complex balance between weight and gravity the artist suspended his body using only a plank of wood, creating a minimal, graphic image that is at once humorous and unsettling.”

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Marina Abramovic meets Ulay “Marina Abramovic and Ulay started an intense love story in the 70s, performing art out of the van they lived in. When they felt the relationship had run its course, they decided to walk the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and never seeing each other again. at her 2010 MoMa retrospective Marina performed ‘The Artist Is Present’ as part of the show, a minute of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her. Ulay arrived without her knowing it and this is what happened.”