Sarah Jones

Sara Jones work is conceptually similar to mine. She deals with creating unnatural scene from the natural and creating surreal photographs in very familiar settings. I am interested in how our images are visually different despite dealing with similar concepts. Though her images have a flat look to them, they transmit a plethora of emotions and interpretations. I also enjoy how the subjects are placed within the photograph, becoming part of the background despite being the largest subject.


Biography:
"Sarah Jones was born in London in 1959 where she continues to live and work. She studied Fine Art at Goldsmith's College, completing her Master's (Distinction) in 1981 and her first degree, in Fine Art and Contemporary Dance, in 1996."- Royal College of Art (http://www.rca.ac.uk/Default.aspx?ContentID=503338)


Quotes:


"This image was part of a series of teenage girls with whom Jones has been working for some time, photographing them in and around their comfortable middle-class homes. The girls inhabit an in-between space that bridges childhood and maturity. In pointing to a haunting narrative beyond the frame--a childhood "uncanny" -- Jones denies her work the genre-portrait status to which it might otherwise be consigned."- Junk for Code (Review link)


"What is explored is the ‘analytic frame’ that marks off the different kind of reality that is within it from that which is outside it; but a temporal spatial frame also marks off the special kind of reality of a psychoanalytic session. "- Junk for Code (Review link)

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