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Girls on film |
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'Girls on film' is a series of images which span a variety of silver gelatin and digital formats. (The title is also that of the Duran Duran 1980 hit, although my content has virtually nothing to do with those lyrics.) The pictures are concerned with the technology as well as the girls' paint jobs. |
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My interest is in images of painted faces as caught on film; my fetish images have run aided and abetted by the media revolution. I have worked with a broad range of film media, from the smallest movie stock to 5x4 sheet film, and now digital. |
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In this series, 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. |
| Using digital methods, I'm examining the materials and the processes, not forgetting the wet process in the darkroom. |  |
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The handling and management of film media, storage and filing systems have all changed with the arrival of the digital age. |
| Scanning and on-screen manipulation allow us to take the whole concept and process of retouching, manipulation, photomontage and collage to a new level. |  |
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