IDEA

For this assignment I want to continue on my topic of “couples”. In my last assignment I talked about how LOVE IS UNIVERSAL.

In this topic, I want to go deeper in the term “UNIVERSAL” and say that Love knows no boundaries. Boundaries in terms of age or gender and even in time.

Even little children know what is the meaning of bring romantically in love even if they may not have the full and true meaning of it.

PHOTOMONTAGE

So I decided to use found images of old and young couples and mismatch them buy doing a photomontage or “photo-surgery”

I am inspired by artists who do photomontage like John Stezaker and Jesse Treece. Below is a link to the 10 artists who do photomontage.

http://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/3318/top-10-collage-artists-hannah-hoch-to-man-ray

 

 

BOBBY NEEL ADAMS

Another particular artist which I found that is more closely related to my idea is Bobby Neel Adams.

http://www.bobbyneeladams.com/

Using a technique he coined “photo-surgery,” Adams integrates separate images of husband and wife into one, united front.

He documents the regeneration of genes in merged snaps of mothers and daughters. fathers and sons.

Most disconcertingly of all, he fuses snapshots of a subject’s past and present self into one jagged, time-lapsed pictorial.

The photos are an unsettling reminder that there is no escaping your genes or aging.

Family Genes

 

Age

 

Couples

My thoughts:

I really like the photomontage on the couples. I think it’s really cool and at the same time disturbing how it shows two different individuals but they look mysteriously similar.

APPROACH

As I’ve said before I am going to do a mismatched photomontage of many couples using old and new photos.

What I mean is that I would use an old photo of a couple and mismatch one of the partners and change it to a photo of lady that is taken in this day and age.

As the 30 photos progress I might want to change it to maybe an old man with a young lady and vice versa, trying to make the photos look really awkward but somehow correct at the same time.

I was inspired by this article by vouge. That compares between the figures of the artist, Lucas Cranach, and the human comedy of today.

http://www.vogue.it/en/people-are-talking-about/that-s-too-much/2011/02/cranach-mismatched-couples#ad-image66742

By further mismatching the couples but somehow making them feel correct, is re-emphasising my point that love knows no boundaries.