Some notes and stuff

Reading stuff/notes/stuffstuff:

-"My work is over when i have managed to get beyond the mirror" - Jorge Molder in Face: The new Photographic portrait. Ed:William A. Ewing

-"To say that 'the camera cannot lie' is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practiced in its name." Marshall McLuhan 1964. page 86 of the above.

-"Photography pretends to show reality. With your technique you have to go as near as to reality as possible in order to imitate reality. And when you come so close then you recognise that, at the same time, it is not." Thomas Ruff 1993. Page 104

-"If you stand in front of a customs officer, you try and make a face like the one in your passport. So why should my portraits be communicative at a time when you could be prosecuted for your sympathies?" Thomas Ruff 1993. page 119. I found this one really interesting especially as it came from 1993! I feel that it is even more true now...

-Jason Salavon -"The class of 1967" 1998. All the male and females fomr this year overlayed on top of one another kind of in the style of Bernd and Hilla Becher..

-Axel Antas -"White Portrait" 2002
White out, a void where the face should be...

-"I am visable, I am Image." Jean Baudrillard, 1993.

-Eva Lauterlein series called "chimeres" - Spooky and haunting images of people who look totally disengaged, robotic almost...

-Douglas Gordon "Monster" 1997

-"The visable world is no longer a reality and the unseen world is no longer a dream." W. B. Yeats

-Helen Sear from the series "twice...once" 1998-2000
Epic series in whice two portrait images were superimposed creating bizzare and starngly penetrating portraits that look like victims of some sort of strange surveillance experiment. "What is secret and hidden is also ghastly". Look up Freud's notion of the "Unheimlich"