Notes and evaluation on another book:

Anna Houiellebecq: Inside Out

 Houiellebecq speaks much about the project being about capturing the physical representation of hidden emotions. Her body ‘inside out’ includes images of the subjects posing in a certain way that represent a specific emotion. Her images focus on particular areas of the body, this being hands and faces; small sections at a time. Her book also allows a creative way that allows shapes and movement to be seen throughout. It has a very contemporary feel because of the way the human body uses light and abstract visions. The variation of images spreading from the whole page to half of the page allows a portrait oriented angle of the book itself. There is no category to her images, which I enjoy as this is similar to the narrative aspect that I too am looking for in my images. To do so the images are linked in similar ways through either colour or perhaps subject.Her images have a variation of coloured and black and white as this allows a contrast within the flowing format already. She decided to choose the ‘bath images’ to go into black and white as this looked better this way as the contrast of tones work better in black and white. An aspect of her book I throughly enjoy is the use of poems about particular aspects of the body itself. And for these double pages she used a similar colour themes and aesthetic as much as possible.

I think her title is very suiting and successful when thinking about the completion of this book ‘Inside out’ came from an expression of hidden emotions in a physical embodiment of human form. Another aspect I thought was successful was how the colour throughout looked professional and clear and precise to the overall Finish of the book itself. She was very clear with the amount of research she produced when speaking about body image and exploring how body expresses hidden emotions. She released though her research how bodies are usually intertwined and inspired by daily physical contact. she decided photographing political, social and emotional groups of a person was successful. I think this is interesting as this was similar to one of my first ideas about the exploration of human emotion reflected in a landscape. However I think when considering the sublime, I might consider the emotions behind the sublime itself, This would be considering how sublime emotions are within ourselves, and we do not know others emotions or inner feelings.Her essay question is quite substantial asking ‘how and why do photographers use the human body to physically express hidden emotions’

I believe her work is full marks, her work is conceptual and allows many bodies of work to inter-twin successful into one working concept. Her essay is clear and expands onto the following topics of politics, culture, sexuality and gender issues. Her images not only show political issues but they show emotion through the smallest of areas on the body, which I think is so hard to accomplish yet she achieved this so well. I find it fascinating how she talks about how the human body can be used as a tool to express what cant be said in photography.  or as a ‘physical visualisation of unheard emotions’. The way she so successfully analysis her images making sense of what is happening and what she is trying to connote, is easily understood yet also well in depth and creates an awareness to whats he is trying to achieve.

She talks about the physiology of her work, clearly expanding from just a photographers view on the subject. Her references to other artists that successfully join into her work. Her analysis is also divided into conceptual and surreal forms of looking at the body, I think this important because there are so many possible variations and ways in which you could view the art so doing a clear depiction divided in a way such as this is very clear and shows conceptual thinking. I think many of the conceptual themes of her book such as the colour scheme not only intertwine the written work to her visual but also creates a sense of mimicry within the colours symbolising the emotions she is trying to convey.she also successfully links her written work and the whole book itself to specific photographers and this essence of cohesion really helps to achieve her subject matter and her artists linked and wholly visible within her work.  The  Themes I would like to take out o this book are t pieces of text she uses in order to almost explain and deep then the thought of her work. I also believe how she used colour was so well thought out and received. I think her images themselves have such a strong overall theme yet and narrative yet without having to tell a chronological story which I would also like to show within my own work. Her subjectivity and images work well hand in hand and I think this piece as a whole was so well thought out ,presented and achieved and I will sue this as the basis of my own inspiration .