Jeff Weiss is a photographer who has been primarily working
on images that examine landscapes and structures along with the relationship
between the two for several decades. The work he shows in the book interested
me because it demonstrated the idea of nature removing structures form the
landscape made by humans over time. One of his other projects is somewhat the
inverse Collaboration was a series that used nature to create structures from
natural materials. Between the two works I find it interesting that with so
many of his projects looking at the conflict between man and nature the
possibility of a kind of harmony was explored.
Martina Lopez is another artist who was an early adopter of
digital technology to create an image. Focusing less on what the technology
could do she used it initially to recreate the types of aesthetics found in old
scrapbooks, and collage work. Her other work mainly works to the same ends
taking old photographs and manipulating them to fit in her constructed scene
but making it apparent that it is edited so that the viewer understands that
there was an original meaning.
Simen Johan is a Scandinavian artist whom in the book has
images that represent a dreamlike state of people. His more recent work
maintains that dreamlike aesthetic, but has a focus on nature. In the series
“until Kingdom Come” the animals portrayed are manipulated to seem realistic
but always have something that gives away the fake aspects, such as a false color
of fur, or an odd grouping of animals.
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