118 – girl on film

One of a series of images with the theme 'girls on film' (prompted by the 1980 Duran Duran hit, although their content has virtually nothing to do with those lyrics) which span a variety of silver gelatin and digital formats. Here I am elevating the physical form of the photographic image itself to artefact; think Marshall McLuhan The Medium is the Massage 1967; think Joe Tilson and Diapositive or Transparency, Clip-o-Matic Lips, the Five Senses: Taste et al 1967-9.

41.5 x 31cm on A3+ limited to 50 signed giclée prints

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I have been part of the revolution from film to digital images. Eight millimeter film is about as coarse a format as you’ll find; it does reduce the image to basics, in this case blobs of colour from a girl’s exaggerated make-up. Hurrah! The accentuated and granular mask has more substance than the girl behind it whose own character is hidden. In that respect, the model is not real.

The hidden text reads:
... artificial images of creatures based on women but with the unbelievable anticipation that they would be realised in the flesh before not too long. Mid-shots and close-ups of each in turn, smiling and simpering into the camera, manipulating the lens, teasing the viewfinder. Professional exploitation of every trick in the book to enhance every feature of these man-made dolls

© Colin Robinson 1968-2006