Artist Research.
Jessica De Muro- Photographer
Website: Jessicademuro.com
Jessica de Muro is a visual artist who mainly concentrates on installation, photography and often combines them together. Her work tends to be mainly about women power and the body image. Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally like places such as Morocco and Milan. She was awarded an honourable mention for her photography project "unspeakable"in the photographer's forum of the year 2016. I find her work really interesting to look at and how she uses her art work to send a message to the audience. When I looked at her website, there were two projects, the first one was called emergence which seems to be photographs of a body that has been blurred out by the camera so the body looks very faded. The second project was "unspeakable" which was the one that was most popular internationally. This projects was my personal favourite, it had such a strong and powerful meaning towards me. I also like how she combined both installation and photography. this is something that I would like to do for my project this year.
Christian Boltanski
Website: tate.org.uk
This next Artist that I decided to look at was a French photographer, christian boltanski. His most well known work was made between the 40s and 50s, which was when he made short avant-grande film and published notebooks about his childhood. Some of his most famous was based on jewish children and boltanski's.
Rosanna Jones
Website: rosannajones.co.uk
Rosanna Jones is a fashion and mixed media photographer based in London. Her work specialises in an experimental of art and illustration. Although Rosanna Jones was a fashion photographer, I was mostly inspired on how she experimented with different processes and mixed media work. She combined painting and print making into her work.
Maurizio anzeri
http://www.saatchigallery.com/artists/maurizio_anzeri.htm
This artist I particularly find inspiring because he has a similar out-take on his meaning behind his work which is looking at the different emotional expressions and using that to create a new "Identity" with using stitching onto of old photographed images. I like this idea because it's a new way of looking at photography and manipulating the image to make it more capturing to the eye. I think he's trying to mask there original emotions and trying to cover it up with colours to brighten up the original image.
Antonio Palmerini
http://www.theenglishgroup.co.uk/blog/2014/02/16/antonio-palmerini/
Antonio Palmerini is an Italian artist/poet. He mainly concentrates on photography and the emotions of a person and what they're feeling, the look of his photos describes them to be depressing. He uses long-exposures and double exposures to create his "ghostly" effect. He doesn't seem to describe his individual photographs but only describes why he makes work. He says he takes photographs that inspire him and what he imagines, he paints. A blog post I read explain what some of his work involves. "Palmerini shows us split personalities, melancholia, bi-polar disorder, depression, paranoia, and sociopathy, all through double exposures, long exposures, and high contrast development."
John Stezaker
http://www.saatchigallery.com/artists/john_stezaker.htm
Stezaker's work mostly examines the various relationships to the photographic image "the documentation of the truth". I personally think his work is quite a unique style of photography and the way he expresses his emotions through 'Identity'. One of his most popular pieces of work/exhibitions is called "marriage" In this series he uses old classical portraiture photos of old film stars and combines two together to make a collage of one also known as juxtaposing. The type of Identity he uses is "public" Identity. which he is why he uses old classical film stars.
Lucas Simões
http://www.lucassimoes.com.br
Simões work is highly influenced by his architectural and design background. Over the years he has experimented with a range of materials such as maps, books, photographs, concrete, silicone, wax and paper. He uses all these different kinds of materials and experiments with using processes
such as burning, cutting, layering, reshaping, and distorting them. Lucas Simões has only recently become more popular and participating in more international exhibitions like Germany, Spain, England, America and Russia. However, his Art work is mostly well known in his home town in Brazil (Sao Paulo). Looking at his work, I feel like the photographs have a meaning of Identity and it's almost like masking there Identity with manipulating in different ways. I enjoy looking at his work as I feel the style of of photography is creative and unique. During my experimenting stage Lucas Simões inspired me to experiment and manipulate my own photographs loads of different ways to get the effects that work best for my own style of work.
Ashley Edwards
http://blog.urbanoutfitters.co.uk/?p=27032
I came across this next artist Ashley Edwards on a blog I frequently read which mainly introduces new coming artists in the Art community. To create his 'Digital stylised' work, he uses Idealised portraits of people from the past and juxtaposes them together, digitally manipulating together to create a 'futuristic look' to old fashioned images.
claire pestaille's work explores historical and contempoary iconography. She mostly examines the construction of femininity through the disruption of photographic imagery. Her work invloves both the beauty and the horror, glamour and supervision. These old snapshots containing old memories of the past, her photographs are re-imaged vintage photos and she uses different medias like collages and print making. I think this offers an alternitive way of seeing and understanding the collective memory of images.