7th April 2014
Wendy Mc Murdo
Wendy Mc Murdo is an artist I researched when starting my dissertation. She creates uncanny pictures focusing on the doppelganger. Wendy McMurdo works like me in both traditional photography and computer technology to create her photographs. The photographs I will be focusing on are those of pictures of children who seem slightly odd and distant. Her images often explore that of fact and fiction, homely and unhomely making you question the image.
McMurdo uses digital techniques to manipulate the image. She does this to emphasis certain aspects of the image more often than not highlighting the subject making them even more unsettling.
I am very interested in Mc Murdos technique in her photographs such as Helen, Backstage (1995). The background of this image is empty dark much like what I want in my background. The other interesting thing about this photograph is that the ‘Twin’ girls in the image are in actual fact the same girl edited into the same photo. You would never guess that at first glance. This is the type of reaction I was aiming for with my photo shopped images. Disbelieve, double takes and then questions how?
Another image of Mc Murdos I am interested in would have to be, Computer Class, Edinburgh II, 1997.This is again an image taken of a child, this time there is no double added in but the object the child is playing with in this case a computer has been taken out. These images they are even more uncanny, the children are lost stuck playing with their doubles staring so convincingly at an object that is clearly none existent.
