Anna Gaskell photographed through the eyes of Alfred Hitchcock. Her stories are based around the adventures of adolescent girls who overcome the injustices that they encounter but we never find out how the story ends. These girls are caught in a situation of fear and anxiety. Her work makes the world look like a very grim place. She is not interested in the beginning or the end of the story but the in between narrative. She uses generic characters that remind us of real life.
Her work is very seductive and we begin to love her work and the aesthetics of the image itself before we reaslise the twisted truth that is actually being shown to us. Young girls are wearing fetish nurse outfits; combining the innocence of childhood with eroticism. This intense psychological photographic tableau is inspired by fairy tale but plays on their more sinister meaning. Who in these images are good and whose bad? Or is good and bad the same person?
The colours are very vibrant and strong set against a high contrast of shadow and light which makes me feel uneasy. The ambiguity is what frightens me; i don't know what's going to happen next, if something terrible is going to happen or it'll end happy ever after.
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The photograph as contempoary art by Charlotte Cotton
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