Nancy Burson first became well known in the art community for her work in which she collaborated with computer engineers to create a program that could age faces. Not only did this technology create her well-known images of facial composites but it also helped the police to locate missing children by using the ageing software. She then became interested in photographing people with major facial birth defects in her series “Craniofacial”. Recently she has received attention for her series in which she photographs orbs, which she claims, follow her around after her experience with a divine being. “Even NASA has caught on tape her orbs playing in the sky,”(City Beat). Although these images seems as if they have been digitally imitated, she does nothing to try to enhance the photographs.
Burson is particularly interesting to me due to her work with photographing Orbs. Currently my work is dealing with using light as a mysterious character in the scene. Through studying her work, I am given a sense of how these real life “characters” photograph, which gives me inspiration on how to present my light in my compositions.
Quotes:
"Early on, I came up with three categories for my work: How we see ourselves, how we see each other and how we see ourselves within the universe." (Burson)
"The vision she recounts is of an elderly man wrapped in reddish orange robes. He told Burson: 'Your job is to help the healers.'" (City Beat)
James, Laura. "Art: Half Artists, Half Angel." City Beat. 26 Oct. 2006. Web. 26 Sept. 2010. <http://www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/print-article-1775-print.html>.
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