Ed Ruscha & Photo/painting

my own photograph

Approaching photography from a painterly angle: form, shape, colour, light, 'art objects' (ed ruscha)

Ed Ruscha, Untitled (three kids in a bed), 1959

Asphalt Jungle, 1991

Sam Taylor-Wood

Sleep
 


'The Last Century, 2005

Georges Rousse

Joel Peter Witkins

Witkins appropriated Las Maninas by Diego Velázquez, revealing an incredible fascination for the morbid and deterioration. He labelled his appropriation as a self portrait, and uses picasso-like characters to represent the high court - so the cultural and personal meaning behind this photograph is huge. Aside from concept and context, the image is intriguing in its own right and without reliance on the original!