JOHN BALDESSARI
John Baldessari is an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images.
"WRONG style photos": In 1967 John Baldessari exhibited his ‘wrong’ series. He uses a selection of photographic images anchored by text. The most famous of which titled ‘wrong’ shows an image with poor composition juxtaposed by the text ‘wrong’ below the photograph (this image references a chapter on composition in a photography techniques book.) The irony of the word is what makes the image so appealing, just blatant judgement of the photograph. The message that Baldessari was trying to say in the image is why should we conform to conventional aspects of art or photograph, why does our work have to be judged? I personally find this interesting as anything can represent an idea which cannot be wrong or right as it is executed as a personal response. |