POSTER BOY AND WHAT

POSTER BOY


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I find it truly hard to go about finding artists who work visually (let alone photographers) who work with the same interests and ideas in mind as i employ in my work. Often it is the work of performance artists, new media and sculpture artists that I relate most directly to. What i feel interested in about this artist is his very basic use of existing mass imagery at the site of its active communication. In changing advertisements where they are found the artist takes his analysis and turns it to practice at the point of delivery.

In the Fear //Anxiety // Trauma i went about delivering an analysis using the visual language of capitalist advertising. High gloss, poster sized photographs similar to that of advertising lacking ad copy. While i"m still not sure where i'll go next i still find it useful to use the visual language of capitalist advertising. How would we have reacted if the photos from abu grahib were high res and studio lit?