Clare strand is another artist I am looking at specifically her pieces ‘Girl in two halves’ and ‘Aerial Suspension’.
These are again utilizing different Photoshop techniques and other things that I am able to achieve using Photoshop. I like the idea of using Photoshop to manipulate images; removing limbs / ropes that hold a person or the frame of a swing or a slide. Making people question how I achieved the final image and hopefully how they look so lifelike.
I think these pieces both touch on the uncanny where the use of Photoshop has worked to make an image almost too real but our knowledge of photo manipulation reminds us they aren’t real.
“Girl in Two Halves and Aerial Suspension allude to trick photography and its fraught relationship to magic and the visualisation of the mysterious, the unseen or the spiritual. The images are intended to be simultaneously believed and disbelieved.” Strand, C. (2011).
This is a quote from Clare Strand at her exhibition Falling Up: The Gravity of Art in the Courtauld Institute, London it states how magic and trick photography go hand in hand to create mystery. So it looks like ‘magic’ or someone has edited the photo… Like magic, people can choose to believe it or find out how it was done and find the trick.
