The Art of Photography...
8:31 p.m.Let's talk some more about photography, as we did in this post.
Jorge Luis Borges, by Diana Arbus
Technique: black & white photography
This photo of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges was taken at the Central Park in New York by American photographer Diane Arbus. We see a still young Borges, looking straight to the camera, a typical Arbus photo. It was a way of making the subject more vulnerable.
Arbus took pictures of big celebrities and stars but, in the 60s, she becomes interested in particular types of beauty, not shown in magazines, such as midgets, nudists and prostitutes. Outcasts she personally selected on her tours around the diverse neighbourhoods of New York.
Her obsession for that kind of production made her picture monstruosity in a normal way, while presumably "normal" people were depicted as abnormal by challenging classic composition techniques and pushing her subjects to be conscious of the shooting.
Victim of a long depression, Diane Arbus kills herself in 1971.
Identical Twins, by Diana Arbus (1967)
Technique: black & white photography
Arbus' photography initiated a change. Because artistic photography today is a successful vehicle to picture the vulgar, the kitsch and the snob: particular subjects and habits of the society of a certain place. An example of this is the work of photographer Marcos López (Santa Fe, 1958), who likes portraying the "Argentinity". He is an artists that reflects and shows the way we are.
El jugador, by Marcos López (1995)
Technique: color photography - MNBA
His theatrical aesthetic, like an advertisment, with vibrant colors, also includes an uncomfortable annoying language. López wants his work to speak of the suburbs and complexity of a hybrid America. His photos provoke the audience and makes us wonder: Are we really like this? The answer seems to be obvious.
Señora en la 9 de Julio, by Marcos López (1996)
Technique: color photograohy / Measures: 40 x 50 cm - MNBA
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