Robert & Shanna

The surrealism and overall nature of the work this team produces, gives me a somewhat new idea in how to guide my series. They achieve the total effect so well because they create their environments rather than search for it. This approach could work well with my concept since it does have to do with one creating their own world. The use of soft focus as well as the use of color or absence of certain ones, makes me wonder if my images could work in a monotone format or if the color is what makes the overall mood so successful.

Biography:

"Much has been written about Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison, the husband and wife team whose photographic tableaus took the art world by storm more than six years ago. Creating a genre unique within the photo world, the ParkeHarrisons construct fantasies in the guise of environmental performances for their Everyman – a man dressed in a black suit and starched white shirt – who interacts with the earths landscape. Tapping into their surreal imagination, the artists combine elaborate sets (which can take months to construct) and an impeccable sense of wit and irony, to address issues about the earth and mankind's responsibility to heal the damage he has done to its landscape." (http://www.edelmangallery.com)

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