Artist Reasearch- Anthropocene

Alexander Apostol

Alexander Apostol was born in Barquisimeto in 1969. Encompassing photography and video, Apostol seeks to expose fractures in the modernist project, both in the artist’s native Venezuela and across South America. Since early in his career, he has concentrated on the iconography of the urban landscape. Apostol digitally altered the images to conceal windows and doors.

I chose Apostol as an artist because I like how he edits his images to cover the windows which to me portrays the idea of isolation and what our world may look like in future and or it could foreshadow how man- made buildings etc shouldn’t be there.

Using Apostol’s work I could alter a landscape of the Sand dunes and manipulate them so that the Sand dunes are in the foreground and a large sky rise building and or office building is in the background

Edward Steichen

Image Analysis

interaction between architecture and people so compare size

Gray scale of concrete fields

Towering skyscrapers

Bold Geometric structures

after sunset

Inspiration

Camilo Jose Vergara

Vergara photographs and documents the poorest and most segregated communities in Urbanized America. He says “I feel that a people’s past, including their accomplishments, aspirations and failures, are reflected less in the faces of those who live in these neighbourhoods than in the material, built environment in which they move and modify over time. Photography for me is a tool for continuously asking questions, for understanding the spirit of a place, and, as I have discovered over time, for loving and appreciating cities”. Throughout his work he revisits places as a way of becoming historically conscious.