Project statement

John Berger mentioned about Photography is the form to encourage a story to be told, and it narratives itself. (1980: 43) The series of Candid Street Photographs, which are taken in cities in the United Kingdom, is about revealing and evoking the intimacy and solitude that exists between the city and people. As a voyeur, the photographer hunts for the unique moments of love and interaction between humans that happen around us everyday. As she thinks it is easy for us to ignore and neglect such intimacy, as we always forget that love is always around us, in the cities.

29.11.12

Memory and fantasy: Victor Burgin






Victor Burgin is an English conceptual artist, writer and photographer.  He studied painting at the Royal College of Art from 1962 to 1965 and philosophy and fine art at Yale University from 1965 to 1967. From the late 1960s he adhered to Conceptual art using combinations of photographic images and printed texts to examine the relationship between apparent and implicit meaning. 

In his Lei Feng series (1973; London, Tate), for example, he drew on semiotic, psychoanalytic and feminist theory to decode structures of representation. A teacher and theoretician, he published numerous writings on art theory and criticism, with particular concern for Postmodernist aesthetics.



Most of Burgin's works were in black and white, quoted by Galerie Thomas Zander, it said it is about the prism of narrative, memory and fantasy, by Burgin's direct to the gaze of real world.



Victor Burgin, ‘[no title]’ 1991
no title, 1991
from tate.org.uk



Victor Burgin, ‘[no title]’ 1991
no title, 1991
from tate.org.uk
Victor Burgin, ‘[no title]’ 1991
no title, 1991
from tate.org.uk


 Talking about the use of black and white by Victor Burgin,
which is the "narrative, memory and fantasy",
I wonder if the form reminds people more about their past 
as it is used to be the only form of photography before the invention of color photography.

 
While it is too easy for everyone to take a color photography, and even makes it a too ordinary form,
does black and white fascinate people more about this "historic form"?
To evoke more fantasy of our memory than color photography?
So that s why we think the black and white has a more solid and dramatic feeling than color one?

 
Maybe of this reason, I want to shoot my project in black and white more than in color,
to  portray the ignored love and interaction in the cities in a more emotional drawing way.
Just to remind and redefine everyone the intimacy in the "cold" cities,
love is all around us.

  




References:
1. Galerie Thomas Zander

2. Tate
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