December 13, 2008 – 11:31 am
My infatuation with Barbara Kruger reached it’s climax as I concluded my final paper for my Photography and Social Change class. I originally wanted to explore Kruger’s influential style on today’s web culture, but somehow I thought it would’ve been a stretch to try and find academic studies on the subject, and otherwise, would’ve had [...]
November 28, 2008 – 5:04 pm
armani exchange and barbara kruger, originally uploaded by alexo05.
I’ve been doing research on Barbara Kruger, the prolific American conceptual and visual artist that gained prominence in the 80s by combining photography and graphic design to create compositions that openly attacked/questioned/mocked the viewer into thinking about what they were seeing.
Well, a funny thing happened on my [...]
November 16, 2008 – 3:08 pm
Thought I’d add a little more context to this assignment for my Photography and Social Change class. In light of the recent news that Detroit’s big 3 car manufacturing companies want a bailout, it strikes me as poetically just that the demise of the American auto industry is pretty much a self-served cocktail mix of [...]
November 12, 2008 – 12:36 am
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Channeling Barbara Kruger, originally uploaded by alexo05.
