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Natalie Krick
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Natalie Krick is a Seattle based photographer who won the Aperture Portfolio Prize in 2017 for her Natural Deceptions, a body of work cultivated with the help of her mother and sister that examines self-identity and the body standards set by the media in a clever, almost tricking, way. Krick is really successful in the way she layers her seemingly straightforward images that cause us to question what we are seeing while also referencing her physical manipulations to the digital ones we see in magazines and the internet everyday. Her portfolio is particularly successful in the way that the images come together as a cohesive whole. While each image can successfully stand alone, because each one uses bold (and complementary to each other) colors with lots of shiny ‘eye grabbers’ as well as hidden/layered elements and figures and relays an overall theme of femininity and beauty in different ways over different ages the portfolio reads as a whole well. Overall I really appreciate the way that Krick’s work looks commercial although something feels off and upon a closer look you see the layers to the images, all done with a almost comical tone and playful tone.
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Martin Parr
Martin Parr is a british photographer who was born in the early fifties. Parr’s work tends to focus on humans and human activity and all of its oddity. Much of his photograph uses strong colors and is exaggerated in portraying humanity for what it is rather than the ideal. Much of his work also focuses on representing an array of socioeconomic classes in an almost grotesque or satirical way, with focuses on the consumption aspect of human culture. Parr’s photography tends to take place in crowded public places (ex. Beaches, tourist destinations, streets, community events, etc.) in a variety of global locations which presents both the locals and the tourists of many different generations (both literally and stylistically). His work is entertaining (often even collage like) while also “show us in a penetrating way how we live, how we present ourselves to others, and what we value”.
GB. England. Wallasey Carnival. 1983
Overall, I like this image a lot. I like how Parr has decided to frame the shot from the child’s point of view/height; the camera angled slightly down towards the array of toys and then the policeman behind it towering over them. Aside from the specifics in the framing of the shot Parr’s almost satirical or bizzare eye of the ordinary life comes out in the contrast of the children with their painted faces, the serious policeman in the back and the almost scinester antique gas masked mannequins (as well as one headless one) all present on a beautiful blue day. All of the aforementioned pieces of the image also work into the composition from foreground to background. Another notably ‘Parr’ characteristic of the image is the colors used; the emphasis on the bright red of the (nearly absurd number of) fire truck toys against the green felt table (which also match the stripes of the boys shirt and the red face paint on the officer uniforms) as well of the hints of yellow in the fore, mid, and background, again, all against the bright blue of the sky. The aspect of the image that I dislike is the tent like structure in the background of the fire trucks. The shape of it begins to draw your eye to it although I think it does nothing in helping the composition or intrigue of the overall image and therefore distracts the viewer.
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