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Appropriate/simulate a pre-existing image.
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Image can be art historical, cinematic,
cultural, fashion, etc.
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Bring original image along with 1 to 2 prints
for critique
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How will you appropriate this image? Reconstructing based on original? Adding or subtracting parts from the
original? Highlighting how that image is
read differently in contemporary culture?
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How does the medium of photography relate to
your appropriated image?
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Must have brief statement. Why did you choose to appropriate this
image? What have you changed or not
changed? Why? How have you re-contextualized the image?
Etc.
Cindy Sherman
Further Reading
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Statements on Appropriation by
Michalis Pichler
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Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by
Walter Benjamin.
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Simulacra and Simulation by Jean
Baudrillard
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Appropriation (Whitechapel: Documents on
Contemporary) Art by David Evans
Artists
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Today: Sherrie Levine, Richard
Prince, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Demand
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More artists (not strictly photographers)
using appropriation: Chapman brothers, Barbara Krueger, Jeff Koons,
Marcel Duchamp, Shepard Fairey, Hans Haacke, Damien Hirst, Joseph Kosuth,
Louise Lawler, Robert Rauschenberg, John
Stezaker, Andy Warhol, John Baldessari, and many more.
Assignment due October 31
Assignment due October 31
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