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Description: | Series of black and white portraits, of black figures, mostly framed against tabloid imagery. Installation shoot of a black and white image containing four pictures of a boys face to the left of the frame, and the front page of a tabloid newspaper background. In each image the focus emphasis changes from foreground to background. The work explores the relationship between race and new technology and the representation of black people in tabloid imagery. This work also incorporates themes from previous works about the family album and the British Museum. | Subjects: | New technology Political Post modern Photographs Representational Narrative Self-portraiture.. Benison. 1970s British School of Cultural Theory and Narrative Film Genre Newspaper tabloid imagery | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: David A. Bailey | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8224... | Go to resource |
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