About the Book
Photographic images have traditionally depicted space, revealing people and objects, they are the stuff of illusion. They are also things. At the intersection of these identities is a kind of gooey vacillation as we look at and through a photographic image in contemporary culture. This work seems to depict exactly what the series title, Photos of Gifts, describes, however, objects are often wrapped with magazine images complicating illusionistic space, as well as, obscuring object identities. Women acting as objects for magazine advertisements are subtly transformed here to the focused subjects of the images only to then be flattened, inextricable from the object portrait, as they are wrapped around that object and tied with a bow. The subject/ object reversal of the female form gets a sea sickening treatment. The small act of wrapping a gift becomes a potent metaphor, exploding within its supposedly quiet, often assumed to be feminine place.
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Features & Details
- Primary Category: Arts & Photography Books
- Additional Categories Fine Art Photography, Fine Art
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Project Option: Large Square, 12×12 in, 30×30 cm
# of Pages: 144 - Publish Date: Aug 31, 2020
- Language English
- Keywords contemporary art, Photos of Gifts, Heather Bennett
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About the Creator
Heather Bennett earned a BA and BFA at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, and an MFA at Hunter College, New York. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally and been reviewed in various publications, most recently Hyperallergic. Bennett teaches at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, MO.