subject: Discover the Role Digital Photo Manipulation Has Played in the World of Politics and Art [print this page] The electronic format of digital photo manipulations readily enables artists to control the transformation or the merging of images, thereby providing them with a visual medium that is fresh for ideas to be readily developed. The taking of either intuitive, staged, or found images and then the morphing of those images into forms that are surreal, sublime or even gothic, the artist has the means to present the viewer with medleys that often have a serene visual aesthetic while commenting on popular culture arts. The work of collaborators Anthony Aziz and Sam Cucher, captures a synthesis of ideas and concerns regarding the perceived form of the known. They create a sense that the person or object portrayed in their work is real in the here and now, rather than the portrayal of just a digital photo manipulated image. In their 1994 'Dystopia' series of work an allusive effect is created, evident in the piece titled 'Rick' where the head and shoulder portrait of a young adult male depicts a face with all of the sensory organs eerily concealed under skin. No eyes, mouth, nose or ear orifices are visible, only the outline and contours of what should be there, but isn't. Many of their latter works also combine imagery of human skin with scenes that are computer generated, which in so doing they purposely remove this ambiguity with regard to the manipulation of the image as political arts.
Discover the Role Digital Photo Manipulation Has Played in the World of Politics and Art
