NGV 'REVIEW'

"The question is not what you look at but what you see" Henry David Thoreau

I went to see the exhibition at NGV titled 'Review'. There were many different style photographs within this exhibition. Different mediums, eras and subject matter. Here are my favorite works from the exhibition;

by Huang Yen 1966 'Chinese landscape tattoo'. My year 12 theme for art was body art or body paint i did a series of works where i painted on the body, so i loved this piece. Colours are all complementary to one another i love the earthy tones. At first you view it simply as a painting then you look more closely to see the painting on a human canvas :)

This photograph of a still life installation is by Man Ray, 1933, a gelatin silver photograph. What i liked most about this photo was the shaddows created by the unusual subject matter. The composition is beautiful and is said to be a self portrait of Man Ray. " The globe held in a disembodies white hand, contains a reflection of the photographic studio and cameras flash as a reminder of the artist who created this stylish and slightly un settling portrait of himself".

Marcel Broodthaers, Belgium 1979 'Le soupe de Deguerre' type C photograph.

This image interested me as i liked the layout of the overall piece. It is almost like looking through 12 tiny windows to see whats on each table. The shots look like little Polaroid photographs or shots from a photo booth. It has a sort of pop art effect in the way it displays a sort of mass media food production. Food that everyone should be eating.