2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-12 20:57
At the age of seventeen, emotions are bared and energy is gushing over the edge largely thanks to blind faith: "death is what happens to others." When already well over forty, experience speaks of something else.
Modern artistic reflection on the theme of old age, perhaps for someone, will become a platform for removing this theme from their own Shadow and a reason for reflection.
In a series of photographs, Nita Vera was pushed by the desire to see with her own eyes the relationship between her father and his mother, which Vera places in given circumstances, in order to realize that the photographs obtained reflect a form of self-portrait with an admixture of indifference and cruelty inherent in their relationship.
Joan Simmel continues her nearly fifty-year tradition of exploring her body. Thus, old age is not isolated from the contextual field of the artist's research, because it is inscribed in a long-term creative activity, which makes it only one of the stages of life. The artist's metaphor is that the old man is scattered in the world, like dust over the ocean.
Aging at Marne Clarke is endowed with various attributes of relaxation: a bedroom, a large empty table, lighting a fire in a fireplace, sleeping on the shore of a lake, the seashore. Clarke says that in everyday affairs he forgets that time is running out and that everything is finite. And these pictures are needed to remind of this.
Miwa Yanagi's My Grandmothers series are staged photographs based on the ideas of different girls about their lives in fifty years. This idea, at the junction of art and sociological poll, constructs the image of an ideal old age.
Aliya Chapin dismisses the popular view of old age as decay. She shows many bodies overwhelmed with joy, which is reminiscent of Dionysian celebrations, and single and group portraits show delight. Chapin's old age is a period when you can finally indulge in the fullness of life.
Phillip Toledano's photo diary is dedicated to his father, who suffers from short-term memory disorders. The pictures, partly funny, partly sad, depict the story of salvation from loneliness: a lonely father is visited by his son and captures his sunset. The photographs, which are based on the idea of visiting in the broadest sense of the word, make them a heartfelt articulation of the transience of time.
Karina Baghdasaryan depicts old age, true to every wrinkle, without embellishment.
Emily Stein challenges society with her project Hello, I Am Nora. 73-year-old Nora frees herself up in front of the camera, as if declaring that she does not want to be bored and lead the stereotypical lifestyle of a pensioner. While this series is meant to showcase openness and fun, Nora hooks up to glamorous photo shoot templates. With this move, Stein demonstrates our passion for appearance and at the same time tries to destroy stereotypes about a woman of retirement age.
Carlos Saura's look at old people in all his beautiful films is filled with human love. Looking at his old people, it becomes easier to love and easier to understand that you are loved too.
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