Week 11

We looked at a lot of Dada and Surrealist art this week and one of the artists that I found most interesting was Loretta Lux. She takes photographs of children but they are so creepy looking. The children all seem to have a dazed and disconnected expression on their faces, almost like they aren't really human. The backgrounds in all of her photographs are photoshopped so they add to the unreal nature of the photographs. What really interests me about her work is the that she uses photoshop and that makes me wonder how much of the photographs have been altered. In some of them it looks like the color of the kids' skin has been changed and their features have been exagerated. I think this raises the question, what is a photograph? I wonder if we'll come up with a term for photographs that have been altered to serve other purposes that just documenting a moment. I also wonder where Lux finds all these creepy kids I certainly don't see these kinds of kids walking down the street everyday. If I had a kid I'm not so sure I'd let an artist photograph them knowing how the pictures would look. Actually, I probably would because she is such a well respected artist and I'm sure parents probably get frees pics of their kids.