Project 1: Revised and Remade
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Since postmodernism, artists have been acutely aware of the meanings coded into images. While meaning is inherent in images from almost any source, Charlotte Cotton, in her chapter “Revised and Remade” in The Photograph as Contemporary Art, identifies some of source material that photographers have chosen to revise: “family snaps, magazine advertising, stills from films, surveillance and scientific studies, old photographs, fine art photographs, paintings, and so on.” In the act of revising or remaking images, artists draw attention to the social and cultural meaning inherent in the source material.
Your assignment:
1) Choose a source material.
2) Identify the cultural and social meanings of your source material.
3) Make a photographic revision of the source material that imposes new meaning on the original images.
While you may choose to make images that have visual similarity to the original materials, your revision should not be purely visual. Your images should ask the viewer to look critically at your chosen subject.
