I found this neat photo in the New Yorker (Jan. 13, 2003; p. 72), by Stephen Shore, whose exhibition opens this May at the 303 Gallery in New York. I like all the layers of representation: a photo of a billboard (in essence, another photo, or painting) of a mountain. You wonder, what’s real? Which is art? Does the billboard really depict what it obscures? It’s very much like Magritte’s La condition humaine.
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Eyes playing tricks
I found this neat photo in the New Yorker (Jan. 13, 2003; p. 72), by Stephen Shore, whose exhibition opens this May at the 303 Gallery in New York. I like all the layers of representation: a photo of a billboard (in essence, another photo, or painting) of a mountain. You wonder, what’s real? Which […]
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That Magritte painting is one of my favorites. I once plagarized – um, created an homage – for the cover the educational magazine I produce. Instead of an easel in front of the window, I created a computer monitor – like the picture posted here, is the image on the monitor reality, or a bastardization of reality?