Artist Post #5
October 5, 2010
Susan Barnett
Relation:
I am so excited about this work. For the past few weeks, I have been really focusing on distribution. Not distribution of photographs at all, but distribution of a message. I want to focus on different ways to spread a concept, and using photography as the documentation of that process. This particular series by Susan Barnett called Not In Your Face works with a very similar theme. Barnett uses t-shirts to spread ideas of her participants. The t-shirts sometimes included words, and other times included imagery. The project was all about self-identity, for Barnett's participants. She used photography to help them spread their own messages through this process. Wearing these shirts around town as well as in these photographs validate the opinions of the participants and advertise their dreams, hopes, loves, hates, political beliefs, etc. In these images, unlike the usual portraiture, the faces of the people are not shown making the information on the shirts become their entire personality to the viewers.
Artist Information:
Susan Barnett started out with a degree in photojournalism from Marymount College. After working in the industry for a while, Barnett went back to school to receive two more degrees in graphic design and photography. Her first big success as a photographer was a series entitled After Neon which addressed the fading neon signs in Manhattan. Her next big hit was the series I discussed before.
Quotes:
"This is an aspect of society that may not register with everyone, but the fact that these people are willing to wear their message on their back indicates they want to be seen and are involved in a kind of street performance art."
"A collective consciousness appears when the photos are grouped together with similar political slogans and personal imperatives."
Source for both:
"Not in your face." Lens Culture; Photography and Shared Territories. 2010. Web. 2 Oct 2010.
Links:
Artist Website
Gallery Representation
Interview
Susan Barnett
Relation:
I am so excited about this work. For the past few weeks, I have been really focusing on distribution. Not distribution of photographs at all, but distribution of a message. I want to focus on different ways to spread a concept, and using photography as the documentation of that process. This particular series by Susan Barnett called Not In Your Face works with a very similar theme. Barnett uses t-shirts to spread ideas of her participants. The t-shirts sometimes included words, and other times included imagery. The project was all about self-identity, for Barnett's participants. She used photography to help them spread their own messages through this process. Wearing these shirts around town as well as in these photographs validate the opinions of the participants and advertise their dreams, hopes, loves, hates, political beliefs, etc. In these images, unlike the usual portraiture, the faces of the people are not shown making the information on the shirts become their entire personality to the viewers.
Artist Information:
Susan Barnett started out with a degree in photojournalism from Marymount College. After working in the industry for a while, Barnett went back to school to receive two more degrees in graphic design and photography. Her first big success as a photographer was a series entitled After Neon which addressed the fading neon signs in Manhattan. Her next big hit was the series I discussed before.
Quotes:
"This is an aspect of society that may not register with everyone, but the fact that these people are willing to wear their message on their back indicates they want to be seen and are involved in a kind of street performance art."
"A collective consciousness appears when the photos are grouped together with similar political slogans and personal imperatives."
Source for both:
"Not in your face." Lens Culture; Photography and Shared Territories. 2010. Web. 2 Oct 2010.
Links:
Artist Website
Gallery Representation
Interview
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