Artist Post #6: Spring Semester
Monday, March 7, 2011
Jeffery Wolin
Bio:
Jeff Wolin is the Ruth N. Halls Professor of Photography at Indiana University. He tends to use subjects that have been survivors of war or some sort of battle in his images and tends to use the pairing of image and text to tell more of the story. He has used Holocaust survivors and Vietnam War vets for various projects that have gained him extreme notoriety. He is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Relation:
I am really drawn to Wolin's work first and foremost because I have been researching how artists use text and handwriting directly on images. Wolin uses text and imagery in a way that allows the subject of the image to tell his or her story more completely. He uses an abundance of text and puts it all around the shape of the subject so it appears in the background but is actually a separate textured layer. I am very drawn to the use of handwritten text on image.
Quotes:
"The people I was working with said 'It's great you're doing this, because the stories will reach our children and grandchildren too.'"
Source: http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/15243.html
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