Elson Elizaga wrote:
Oh, I'm not saying the children are dead. I've read the text. What I'm
saying is the people are portrayed as dead, in an artistic way, perhaps.
The eyes are open, but that is part of the trick. If you close them,
everything becomes clear and too antiseptic, journalistic. It's art,
yes. But I see dead people still. And I think that is her point. Why she
does it, I don't know. Just look at her self portrait again. Anyway, I
call this death photography.
*/Don Roberts <droberts@xxxxxxxx>/* wrote:
Hmm, where did you get the idea these were dead children? I can't
find anything that suggests that other than the pale skin. She
talks about posing the kids etc. I'm not particularly fond of the
photo/paintings? but she has found a niche. Something that is
increasingly hard to do anymore.
Don
Elson, I'm sorry that I didn't grasp your question correctly. I
thought you were literal. Anyway, I don't see them as dead (it must
be your sixth sense) but I see them as lifeless (slight
distinction) like manikins. They are cold and not at all childlike.
Not my sort of images I'm afraid.
Don
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