We went to the Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool and one of the
exhibitions that we saw was the Eva Stenram, Drape. The photographs were of
women being covered up with curtains. Stenram had looked back and found old
negatives from old magazines of pin up and centrefold girls to use which she
scanned in and manipulated herself into new photographs by covering the women’s
bodies up with curtains. She did this so that when the images were being looked
at the viewer cannot see the naked bodies and can just see parts of the flesh
and is saying that the women were being objectified.
This exhibition wasn’t something to my taste as I believe
the images would have been much better to look at and appreciated if the hadn’t
have been put together on a computer. I think they should she should have shot
actual models and covered them up with the curtains so that it actually looked
realistic. The images weren’t real enough for me and just looked like parts of
photographs stuck together to make one which I didn’t really like.
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