#image making

[shapethings]

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[happywebdesign]

BUTT STUDIO

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Movement Project: Artists Research - John Stezaker (19/01/23)

Stezaker is a British conceptual artist. He created collaged imaged that focus on history and public identity. He juxtaposes and combines different images that he cut out from magazines and ready made postcards to create a collaged image that reflects the society of the past in a witty and creative manner.

His images are visually intriguing. The simplest of his collages are the most complex. His work looks deceptively easy but the thought process behind the composition and format is to be greatly admired.

I like how stezakers collage style - combining two contrast images can be integrated into my concept of time travel. By placing two juxtaposing images from two different eras on top of each other the viewer can move through the two eras whilst looking at the one image.

(Turn the image above upside down and you'll be amazed - the image is the reflection on the piano making reality virtual)

I love how his collages look like they have been produced on Adobe Photoshop but they are actually analogue paper collages. It reassures me that we can still create interesting images without the reliance of technology. I believe that because he didn't use photoshop that stezaker had to think through his compositions that bit more than if he did use photoshop as on photoshop you can just press the undo button if you wanted to change the shape of your cut outs however when doing the cut outs manually there is no undo button so stezaker has to think twice and cut once .

[ladyfeatherfall]

Does anyone have a good tutorial for gif/image making? I have SO many I wanna maaaakeeeee. <3

I have a couple I'd like to make for this fic I'm writing. I can't wait to share it!

[sheltiechicago]

Serge Attukwei Clottey's "Beyond Skin"

Clottey has made work that centers around ideas of image making and identity construction. Taking a cue from mid-century black and white photography made on the coast of West Africa, Clottey seeks to update the visual language of historical images to fit the contemporary.

Both the paintings rendered in duct tape and oil on cork and those made on large sheets of yupo paper are based on existing photographs. Clottey chose his subjects for their expressive nature, drawn to the voice behind the individual. Some are recognizable, such as Chadwick Boseman or Michaela Coel, but some are plucked by the artist from the endless scroll of social media.

Clottey plays with fashion as a form of identity construction. Fabrics act as historical records that are passed on as material culture. The juxtaposition of the figures’ intense subjectivity and the vibrant clothing which adorns them challenges colonialist notions of the agency of the sitter. In the artist’s world, black bodies are no longer props; they assert their independence, pushing beyond antiquated notions of personhood.

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Louvre Lens, SANAA, 2006 [photos from 2013, winter]

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