Douglas Gordon is an artist which I have looked at last year, but still enjoy his art today. This is especially with his pieces which involve old photographs. These are the ‘self portrait of you + me’ pieces where he has burnt out the eyes and mouths from the photographs.
As you can see in the first two images here, he has just changed the eyes. This has changed the photograph completely, taking away any identity away from the person who is photographed, they are no longer recognisable.
However my main interest is in the third image shown here, the one where there is two people with burnt out eyes and mouths. This has completely changed the image, making it look demonic and have an eerie feel to it. He has taken an image of two children and drastically altered it, something which also interested me with the Chapman brothers, only this is used with a real photograph instead of a series of etchings. The Chapman brothers had used clowns and brought humour to the image, while this has taken an innocent photograph and changed it into something which makes the children turn into monsters.
