Marylin Henrion is a life long New Yorker who takes images of architecture and building throughout NYC and stitches them together using post production editing. Her works focus on the geometry and complexity of her surrounding with most of her pieces involving vivid colours and multi-tone collations of structures. The difference in her abstractions are refreshing and add a different realm to the normal buildings almost hidden without Henrions pieces as a focus glass. The clear focus of lines and shapes is ever present within most of her images and most have repeated and recurrent patterns of triangles rectangles and sometimes circles and ovals. The combination of the buildings make a completely different world and style of architecture not always possible as a result of the meticulous piecing together of the images.I find the focus of Henrion's images very interesting as all of the images are more so focused on what is traditionally the background of an image with buildings not conventionally used as a subject; The lack of a subject can make for a confusing scene where your eyes get lost but in this case I think that getting lost in the image lets you see every part and every corner easier and more naturally. Furthermore, an important note to make about Henrion's work is the lack of natural imagery with urban photography paired with digital editing being the focal point of her style. Henrion's work at times reminds me of the likes of Andy Warhol with iterative designs and many different varieties of colours textures and tones.
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Gordon Matta-Clark was an American artist best known for his site-specific images he took in the 70s. One of his notable, pieces included him cutting a large section out of a building and taking images of the intricate and different angles the cuts created. Matta-Clark prefers a more physical medium with cutting and arranging the printed out images to generate a new landscape. The reorganisation and misalignment transforms a normal room into a whole different and completely unique environment; the oblique and slanted images allow for motion and movement within the still images with the wonkiness creating natural squiffness as oppose to a uniform montage of neatly put together images, this is one of the reasons I really like his work. The exploration of making new subjects out of a background and utilising empty space makes his work interesting and visually different. The fragmentation of the building and how the images are displayed could be symbolism for something broken such as a broken household or a damaged place. Out of both photographers I would like to explore Matta-Clark's work in the way he displays his art but use architectural photography like Marilyn Henson as well to merge the two and create a completely different style.
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Barbican centre
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Brownfield estate
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Leake street
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Alexandra & Ainsworth estate
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This response and piece of work is linked to the work of Marilyn henrion with colour and disruption being dominant factors. I used a scalpel and a ruler to disrupt certain images and rearrange to create new angles and images within an image. However, the over all effect is quite messy and not as clear as I wanted it to be; the graffiti image makes it hard to distinguish separation in the images as the whole piece is very busy and colourful. On the other hand, I do like the shapes and angles made within the picture with the leading lines of the weaved in building paired with the artificial rule of thirds implemented and the disruptions playing into that concept. The subject in the image is also relatively confusing with the background image of the graffiti having a main central piece of art but also having a building seeping through the centre. For this reason I don't believe I will pursue this physical style of fragmentation as it also doesn't very closely link to my theme: the boxy cut-outs and misplacement aren't very reminiscent of a sharp fragment.
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