The skater / Wendy McMurdo ; essay by Vikki Bell.
By: McMurdo, Wendy [author.].
Contributor(s): Bell, Vikki
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BookPublisher: Cardiff : Ffotogallery, 2009Description: 77 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781872771731.Subject(s): McMurdo, Wendy, 1962- | Children -- Pictorial works | Play in artDDC classification: 779.092 McM Summary: "Wendy McMurdo is one of the UK s leading lens-based artists who has evolved a singular photographic practice and iconography that explores the role digital technologies play in the construction of identity, particularly in relation to the psychological world of children and young people. The artist s new body of work, The Skater, draws inspiration from Sir Henry Raeburn s painting Reverend Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch, widely regarded as an image characteristic of the Scottish enlightenment. McMurdo s image of the skater presents a similarly evocative motif. However, her work reflects a less utopian view, examining the impact of virtual technology on the lives of the young. The series is completed by striking portraits of young gamers , capturing a generation immersed in computer-mediated experiences. In collaboration with filmmaker Paul Holmes, she explores a circuitous world in which fantasy slides into reality and back again in her first film work, premiered at Ffotogallery, entitled The Loop" -- back cover.
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| 3 day loan | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Reference | 779.092 McM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Reference | 00229435 |
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| 779.092 MAP Altars / | 779.092 McM In a shaded place : the digital and the uncanny / | 779.092 McM Wendy McMurdo / | 779.092 McM The skater / | 779.092 MIC The essential Duane Michals / | 779.092 RUS Various small fires and milk / | 779.092 SOM Absence of subject : the images of Michael Somoroff and August Sander / |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Wendy McMurdo is one of the UK's leading lens-based artists who has evolved a singular photographic practice and iconography that explores the role digital technologies play in the construction of identity, particularly in relation to the psychological world of children and young people. The artist's new body of work, The Skater, draws inspiration from Sir Henry Raeburn's painting Reverend Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch, widely regarded as an image characteristic of the Scottish enlightenment. McMurdo's image of the skater presents a similarly evocative motif. However, her work reflects a less utopian view, examining the impact of virtual technology on the lives of the young. The series is completed by striking portraits of young 'gamers', capturing a generation immersed in computer-mediated experiences. In collaboration with filmmaker Paul Holmes, she explores a circuitous world in which fantasy slides into reality and back again in her first film work, premiered at Ffotogallery, entitled The Loop . Published by Ffotogallery to mark its 30th anniversary commission.
Published in an edition of 500.
Includes index.
"Wendy McMurdo is one of the UK s leading lens-based artists who has evolved a singular photographic practice and iconography that explores the role digital technologies play in the construction of identity, particularly in relation to the psychological world of children and young people. The artist s new body of work, The Skater, draws inspiration from Sir Henry Raeburn s painting Reverend Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch, widely regarded as an image characteristic of the Scottish enlightenment. McMurdo s image of the skater presents a similarly evocative motif. However, her work reflects a less utopian view, examining the impact of virtual technology on the lives of the young. The series is completed by striking portraits of young gamers , capturing a generation immersed in computer-mediated experiences. In collaboration with filmmaker Paul Holmes, she explores a circuitous world in which fantasy slides into reality and back again in her first film work, premiered at Ffotogallery, entitled The Loop" -- back cover.