tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82779673723551169282024-02-07T09:26:09.667+05:30Peripheral VisionZubin B. Pastakia | Photography & ThoughtsZubin Pastakiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405950348966235303noreply@blogger.comBlogger97125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8277967372355116928.post-50092932840661837142012-11-18T07:52:00.000+05:302012-11-18T07:55:40.639+05:30On Surfaces & Gadgets<br />
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<span style="font-family: Monaco, 'Lucida Console', monospace; font-size: 10px; line-height: 15px;">TROIKA: In a world saturated by functional objects, and gadgets pretending functionality, <span style="background-color: yellow;">do you think that creating objects that address more psychological needs, being intricate ones or mere entertainment, is the only way forward to sustain production and ensure market leadership?</span> In this case, could we witness a systematic exploitation of psychological weaknesses of the consumers?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Monaco, 'Lucida Console', monospace; font-size: 10px; line-height: 15px;">Dunne & Raby: Addressing new or neglected psychological needs is definitely one way forward. Gadgets already do this and that's why they are so amusing and interesting. <span style="background-color: yellow;">A look through any gadget catalogue paints a fascinating portrait of modern life and what it means to be human today.</span> All our fears, anxieties and obsessions are manifest in wonderfully strange products</span>Zubin Pastakiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405950348966235303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8277967372355116928.post-32121848871611594972012-03-12T04:14:00.001+05:302012-03-12T06:04:38.114+05:30Computer Vision...Been out shooting video for one of our projects... fun!<br />
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A couple of weeks back, I arrived in Copenhagen to embark on what promises to be an extremely challenging, fun-filled and life-changing year at CIID. Although it is hard to narrow down what <i>exactly </i>leads me to IxD, it perhaps the combination of the desire to participate in the shaping of the near-future, an eagerness to develop a critical artistic and professional design practice (inspired by speculative science fiction, social theory and user-centered design) and a keen interest in human-technology relationships<br />
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It's heartening to know that at CIID they encourage a multi-disciplinary atmosphere, where my skills in image-making (photo,video) as well as my social science background could be put to use in what Bill Verplank in a lecture last week called, without a hint of jest, “designing the future.” No pressure, right?<br />
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So, Peripheral Vision will take a slight detour with me as I head down the rabbit-hole that 2012 is going to be. My plan for the blog this year is to take stock of what we have learned in the course as and when time permits, begin to share some thoughts on IxD (some of which I began compiling late last year while at Spike) and also to begin sharing early research on a project that aims to look at speculative and critical science fiction as a source for gaining insights on “designing the future.”<br />
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Join me!Zubin Pastakiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405950348966235303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8277967372355116928.post-85530837023433845382011-10-18T22:03:00.002+05:302011-10-18T22:09:33.448+05:3014 Proper NounsHere's an ad I made earlier in the month that appeared in <a href="http://www.frieze.com/magazine/">Frieze</a> magazine for the upcoming <i>“14 Proper Nouns” </i>discussion between the artist <a href="http://www.hassankhan.com/">Hassan Khan</a> and curator <a href="http://www.delfinafoundation.com/artist_residencies.php">Nida Ghouse</a>, who is a DELFINA/FICA curatorial/research fellow. The discussions will revisit Khan's “17 and in AUC” work.<br />
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The event (?) begins from the 21st October to 3rd November at <a href="http://www.delfinafoundation.com/">The Delfina Foundation</a> in London. Promises to be a fun event, be there!Zubin Pastakiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405950348966235303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8277967372355116928.post-71891559488095210962011-08-04T00:09:00.004+05:302012-07-13T18:39:06.519+05:30This is Not FryslânA sneak peek at some images from last year's commissioned residency in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friesland">Fryslân</a>, a northern Dutch province. The project, curated by Feico Hoekstra, invited 6 photographers to explore the province for a month from an “outsider's perspective”. The other photographers invited were <a href="http://www.martincreggphotography.com/">Martin Cregg</a>, <a href="http://www.derekhenderson.net/">Derek Henderson</a>, <a href="http://www.annakahn.com/">Anna Kahn</a>, <a href="http://www.lisamrobinson.com/new_index.php">Lisa Robinson</a> and <a href="http://www.bukkie73photography.com/">Bukkie Dos Santos</a>.<br />
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It was quite challenging and a completely different experience for me as I am so used to being in India when I make pictures and work on projects. That said, being thrown into unfamiliar territories forces you to really think about what it means to photograph and re-present a place, familiar or unfamiliar. The series became an exercise in thinking about constructed representations and the identity of a place on the one hand, and the intermingling of value—cultural, economic, personal and representational—on the other. The images below are an introduction to the project.<br />
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The show is on from June 14 - July 31, 2011 so please check it out if you happen to be in Dubai!<br />
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Here is an excerpt from the exhibition note:<br />
<blockquote>Anyone attempting to offer a comprehensive survey of contemporary Indian photography will soon resemble the mythical blind men who were unable to comprehend the entire form of the elephant. The vast Indian subcontinent simply defies an all-embracing view, and can only be celebrated in its dazzling, kaleidoscopic plurality of visions. </blockquote><blockquote>Like the blind men, who ultimately rely on communicating to one another their tales of the same beast if they ever want to arrive at any kind of insight, so do we rely on the many stories told of India by the photographers in this group show. Each of them offers the viewer an intuition of the mutable, living entity that is India, a country and culture that exists most of all in our imagination.</blockquote>To see some images fromt he show, click <a href="http://www.theemptyquarter.com/index.php?p=exhibits_current#ph">here</a>. Press release <a href="http://www.theemptyquarter.com/newsletters/june-newsletter.html">here</a>. A review <a href="http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/art/indian-photographers-exhibit-in-dubai?pageCount=0">here</a>. A short note by the curator <a href="http://www.beikey.net/mrs-deane/?p=5763">here</a>.<br />
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Here is a small selection of my images featured in the show:<br />
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The show is curated by <a href="http://www.charlet-photographies.com/">Dominique Charlet</a> and <a href="http://www.fabienc.com/blog.html">Fabien Charuau</a>; and the photographers showing their work are <a href="http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/12183-binu-bhaskar?tab=ARTWORKS">Binu Bhaskar</a>, <a href="http://parchai.com/brijesh-patel/">Brijesh Patel</a>, <a href="http://mumbaiboss.com/tag/dhruv-dhawan/">Dhruv Dhawan</a>, <a href="http://www.fabienc.com/projects.html">Fabien Charuau</a>, <a href="http://www.pradeepdalal.com/">Pradeep Dalal</a>, <a href="http://www.photoink.net/">Swapan Parekh</a>, <a href="http://sohamgupta.wordpress.com/portfolio/">Soham Gupta</a>, <a href="http://thecontrarian.in/photography/">Mahesh Shantaram</a>, <a href="http://www.neilchowdhury.com/">Neil Chowdhury</a> and myself. I will be showing images from my Cinemas Project series for the first time and it's quite exciting to be part of a show with several photographers whose work I admire and respect.<br />
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A friend who visited the gallery last week was nice enough to take a partial installation shot for me...<br />
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And here are a few shots from the opening, courtesy the gallery (you can see the whole set <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.193679130678376.54450.130094403703516&closeTheater=1">here</a>)...<br />
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</div>Zubin Pastakiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405950348966235303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8277967372355116928.post-15042022753831789952011-04-13T23:31:00.001+05:302011-06-05T12:18:46.374+05:30“Nature as Image” showHappy to be a part of Subuhi Jiwani's group show “Nature as Image” at The Loft gallery (opening this Friday). I will be showing some images from my stay in Fryslân. Do come if you get the time, it's on for two weeks (April 15-May 3). Other artists showing are Neha Choksi, Priyanka Dasgupta, Munir Kabani and Shambhavi Kaul.<br />
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Here is a peek at two of my images from the show...<br />
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More work from this series coming soon...Zubin Pastakiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405950348966235303noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8277967372355116928.post-32783367728093543572011-03-28T14:46:00.000+05:302011-03-28T14:46:55.694+05:30glamdrogynous<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIKoql6fdzm-JYGqdXBM7vDWneoxidozQN0VYhBL0N-BrzV9nzAGFnMtx-G8NxIWr_UpE32c0zfKoDtz64UU00RTOwOXpeDUg3zJtysW8SnQ8Y_EHbyizymXSzhC53dXKIfEsCtTmv42EI/s1600/129435106025.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIKoql6fdzm-JYGqdXBM7vDWneoxidozQN0VYhBL0N-BrzV9nzAGFnMtx-G8NxIWr_UpE32c0zfKoDtz64UU00RTOwOXpeDUg3zJtysW8SnQ8Y_EHbyizymXSzhC53dXKIfEsCtTmv42EI/s400/129435106025.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Zubin Pastakiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405950348966235303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8277967372355116928.post-32990244395453795892011-01-04T23:42:00.002+05:302011-01-04T23:42:19.060+05:30– = +Zubin Pastakiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405950348966235303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8277967372355116928.post-68530698125097184462010-12-19T03:06:00.007+05:302011-06-05T12:19:17.801+05:30Say NothingA poster / cd cover that I made for Mumbai's own <a href="http://slowdownclown.bandcamp.com/">Slow Down Clown</a>, a wonderful band fronted by Vitek Goyel. I tried a few versions that didn't really work and then scoured my library for old political pictures and posters for inspiration. Found this one in Kajri Jain's fantastic <i><a href="http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=5784">Gods in the Bazaar</a></i>, which is a book about India's mass-produced bazaar art that I had read for a class at <a href="http://www.cscsarchive.org/">CSCS</a>.<br />
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The image that has been cropped and appropriated is from Indira Gandhi's notorious "Garibi Hatao" campaign, a campaign that helped her sweep into power in the 1971 election. If you look closely, and if you're one those (at times annoying) people who believes that images should always adhere to the conventions of realism, you might quickly notice that the picture falls short in terms of its verisimilitude.<br />
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Both the mic and the baby exist in a visual regime that has no intention of adhering to the codes of realism. These babies, often of ambiguous gender and race, were extremely popular in the political iconography of the time. They were projected repeatedly to symbolize the paternalistic and transcendental authority of the incipient secular state. Jain writes of the original poster, which proclaims to us “Garibi Hatao” in both English and in Hindi, "We as viewers are invited to identify with the adoring “masses”, but at the same time, to the extent that we can read the slogan, to distance ourselves from them and identify with the infantile citizenship... made available for us within the realms of a transcendent and patriarchal yet democratic state.”<br />
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I appropriated it here, perhaps problematically, but mostly facetiously, as I felt it worked with the album's title “Say Nothing.”<br />
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P.S. The font used is Atelier Carvalho Bernau's recently released Jean-Luc typeface.Zubin Pastakiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405950348966235303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8277967372355116928.post-10179613229769725392010-12-13T23:34:00.001+05:302011-06-05T12:21:18.751+05:30<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqMMVuxtwnJPTHFEKKthBMtyU3t7Ux9j-yKYDvmSoOfd6WLBoLEVB9z54QMZ0Y7sedoZc7awLIvie3frcdzw_OOaC1hOElUxjCRohmEybZfdWKRm8UhKsqIma5erohB8CKKjP16Nd-4haN/s1600/ZP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqMMVuxtwnJPTHFEKKthBMtyU3t7Ux9j-yKYDvmSoOfd6WLBoLEVB9z54QMZ0Y7sedoZc7awLIvie3frcdzw_OOaC1hOElUxjCRohmEybZfdWKRm8UhKsqIma5erohB8CKKjP16Nd-4haN/s400/ZP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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If anyone has some interesting readings and links on Indian design and design culture, please send them over either here or by email.<br />
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Watch this space. Till then, this little gem found at <a href="http://imprint.printmag.com/">imprint</a> cracked me up a good deal.<br />
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"Housing meant ‘mass-housing’ for masses of workers employed on factory assembly lines, originally in the form of ‘company towns.’ Later, housing ‘projects’ were designed and built for masses of lower-income urbanites, an underclass that still exists but is much too diverse to be massed together and in effect ghetto-ized.<br />
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Today’s increasingly service-based economy, one fragmented by computers and internet niches, has created a need for an entirely new typology of living quarters and their groupings, one that has yet to be invented and tested."Zubin Pastakiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405950348966235303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8277967372355116928.post-73874883798043636962010-11-12T00:51:00.001+05:302010-11-12T00:54:05.540+05:30Flipping the Kart<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF9bxbyY1nSw6mbo5lFnEcp25WGtcXVRIGD3DsFalpJ4eyEk7QOKQRdJFf9D9SNeY1MCGyFTC2MXGUxUVnKIDJIhXmSEbngdON2carb5GEtPuEUCJgZjINk2tRuYda60R927LUDf8mL8ch/s1600/Screen+shot+2010-11-12+at+12.48.01+AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF9bxbyY1nSw6mbo5lFnEcp25WGtcXVRIGD3DsFalpJ4eyEk7QOKQRdJFf9D9SNeY1MCGyFTC2MXGUxUVnKIDJIhXmSEbngdON2carb5GEtPuEUCJgZjINk2tRuYda60R927LUDf8mL8ch/s1600/Screen+shot+2010-11-12+at+12.48.01+AM.png" /></a></div>Zubin Pastakiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405950348966235303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8277967372355116928.post-49883772289297378382010-11-08T18:41:00.004+05:302010-11-12T00:54:25.299+05:30To those who’ve “failed”...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvcqpjB1Br2OpJG0_uDLW2AsCbvFOD6p5kv2QltJEQAsJaPNNUUYLtSXV0KVeLU3slVIUEGY0d4vjrR_JXeUC3PpEOWgCwOrFUButvB8nYDUE-tPR9DP-HthrAQw_rrrRBnxblJ55CJRn5/s1600/Screen+shot+2010-11-08+at+6.31.26+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvcqpjB1Br2OpJG0_uDLW2AsCbvFOD6p5kv2QltJEQAsJaPNNUUYLtSXV0KVeLU3slVIUEGY0d4vjrR_JXeUC3PpEOWgCwOrFUButvB8nYDUE-tPR9DP-HthrAQw_rrrRBnxblJ55CJRn5/s1600/Screen+shot+2010-11-08+at+6.31.26+PM.png" /></a></div>Zubin Pastakiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405950348966235303noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8277967372355116928.post-83079412787093634762010-10-29T17:48:00.002+05:302011-06-05T12:21:51.567+05:30Museums and Collective Memory a talk by Francesca Recchia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfWkg6j5xmT4_QoXVYCrM5R_QKFTc7JmUCJZlCOhldqFZaEzDJfDM23CMs21Xopnk7ciWX8ZWV1Lz2fgTf73N9S18KqclBFYCQ9QFBmcFIXPRO7j-a6WEpm811ES0yei8bdSBlMXEyf6j7/s1600/Zubin-Pastakia-Francesca-Recchia-JNAF-Invite.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfWkg6j5xmT4_QoXVYCrM5R_QKFTc7JmUCJZlCOhldqFZaEzDJfDM23CMs21Xopnk7ciWX8ZWV1Lz2fgTf73N9S18KqclBFYCQ9QFBmcFIXPRO7j-a6WEpm811ES0yei8bdSBlMXEyf6j7/s400/Zubin-Pastakia-Francesca-Recchia-JNAF-Invite.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Zubin Pastakiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405950348966235303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8277967372355116928.post-76418484603325440132010-10-24T19:54:00.003+05:302011-06-05T12:22:25.733+05:30WordPlay<div style="text-align: left;">Oh how I love thee, my <a href="http://www.visualthesaurus.com/">VisualThesaurus</a>!</div><br />
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I've pulled the above images from a New York Times <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/science/14atom.html?ref=science">story</a> on the "atomic cameramen" who filmed and photographed the test detonations of nuclear bombs in the 40s and 50s (before the ban on atmospheric testing was put into place). Many of the image makers died of cancer later in their lives. Image #2 in the above sequence pictures the "V.I.P. observers" of the detonations at one of the viewing decks that were set up by the government. It is also pertinent to note that a lot of the cameras, film stock and lenses used were later sold commercially for use by Hollywood studios; a reminder of how military R&D often trickles down and drives technological change in the entertainment industry.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Zubin Pastakiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07405950348966235303noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8277967372355116928.post-23429869716199354302010-09-15T22:46:00.012+05:302010-10-13T02:31:08.652+05:30PUBLIC 40: Screens<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaKpinqw-RT1vFTAIIjEYKlFFxSvGQfgX5F5xcGuLqrKSd70xXTVdfL8E03ZbUxCraIcCZeAeVya9LAo6_uiRRtYrUW-aszXDGZxMdc7BEn_8YSnyZiFId2Sf3WW4l_8fGWVg_z43SdSdc/s1600/PUBLIC40_for_Zubin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaKpinqw-RT1vFTAIIjEYKlFFxSvGQfgX5F5xcGuLqrKSd70xXTVdfL8E03ZbUxCraIcCZeAeVya9LAo6_uiRRtYrUW-aszXDGZxMdc7BEn_8YSnyZiFId2Sf3WW4l_8fGWVg_z43SdSdc/s400/PUBLIC40_for_Zubin.jpg" width="315" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Was invited to make a contribution to the 40th issue of <a href="http://www.publicjournal.ca/">PUBLIC</a> (a journal of 'Art, Culture & Idea's published by the Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts in York University, Toronto) which went by the title: <i>Screens</i>. They featured the auditorium image from Maratha Mandir below. Do check out the journal if you get a chance to, there are some interesting texts and images/artworks that interrogate and investigate the shifting nature of screens themselves as well as their influence in changing—and often conflating—the "public" and "private" spheres.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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From the editorial note:<br />
<blockquote>"PUBLIC 40: Screens features twenty artists, curators and researchers who investigate and respond to new spaces of viewing and changing patterns of consumption —from Quebec to Palestine, from streets to galleries— with a variety of aesthetic, technological and distribution tactics. From Kelly Mark’s The Kiss to Elaine Ho and Sean Smith’s project responding to the Beijing Olympics, from Bruno Lessard’s essay about Robert Lepage’s Le Moulin à images to Holly Lewis’s "Wars of Air and Electricity," Screens is dedicated to the ways screens are used, viewed, imagined, placed, and made worldwide."</blockquote>I was particularly taken by an image from Canadian artist <a href="http://kellymark.com/">Kelly Mark</a>'s installation <i><a href="http://kellymark.com/TheKiss.html">The Kiss</a>,</i> which I have taken the liberty to copy and paste below.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6ampd7KNaD9y6XL1fzTS-VIVVQTIOkoEHiKzQDeTCOxtyePChVJTvGGvVhAaq_4e4m4FHYMo5RtuE3D-TiefyWN0aGrvUbELk3gdSG4BZvUnvLdyk_wWiTA8jib1Z9YH1CleEynzM2a0J/s1600/TheKiss.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6ampd7KNaD9y6XL1fzTS-VIVVQTIOkoEHiKzQDeTCOxtyePChVJTvGGvVhAaq_4e4m4FHYMo5RtuE3D-TiefyWN0aGrvUbELk3gdSG4BZvUnvLdyk_wWiTA8jib1Z9YH1CleEynzM2a0J/s1600/TheKiss.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Kelly Mark, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Kiss <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">(</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2007)</span></div><br />
On her website Kelly writes: "The light source for this work was created by simply recording the cast light of a gang bang scene in a hard core porn film as it bathed my apartment wall while viewing. No image or sound was captured only the reflected light. The porn genre tends to be fairly routine and pragmatic in terms of editing, therefore the resulting glow is steady and rhythmic with few camera changes but with quickening pulses of colour...mainly pinks, oranges and red hues."<br />
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I really love it.<br />
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It's one of those images where I'm sure that you don't really need the text at all, the caption itself, being so evocative, does a lot of the work. And yet, some people would like to know this. The artist herself clearly believes that it is important to know this. It is always interesting to think about just how 'context', such as the kind Kelly has provided, changes the way you read and experience an image. Personally, I constantly battle with myself as to whether it is necessary to put contextual information beside a particular image, because sometimes context can override the subjective reaction a viewer has with the image; and yet, often it is so important to know why/where/whom/what/how.<br />
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It's also perhaps worth thinking about titles/captions that reference other titles/cations and how artists can use that to not merely reference but 'update' images to their cultural time and place. With regards to Kelly Mark's work, Gustav Klimt's <i>The Kiss</i> comes to mind:<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Gustav Klimt, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Kiss<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"> (1908</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Ah, convergences.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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