Gillian Wearing's series "the Album" is the series that intersts me the most.
“The Album photographs are a continuing series, begun in 1993, featuring Wearing posing as members of her family. Costumes, wigs and meticulously crafted silicone prosthetic masks go into recreating, in detail, the snapshots and portrait images on which her photographs are based. The results are spooky and raise questions around loss, the passage of time and disintegrating identity.”
“However, it's an expensive process (each mask costs more than £10,000 to produce, followed by up to 40 rolls of film to capture the perfect image of Wearing inside it). Until recently the series consisted only of parents and siblings, two self-images and an uncle. Now there are two new additions to the album: Wearing's maternal grandparents.”
Inevitably, the further Wearing extends Album to include previous generations, the more her own position seems like an end point; the final name at the bottom of the family tree. "That's true - how to take it forward? I don't have any children, but if I did, I probably would use their pictures in this series. It's made me think about how people in years to come will be lucky, because they'll have photographs that go back through generations and generations of their family."
That last quote is shows how her work relates to mine. The photographs that I am recreating are of important meaning (first day baby came home, first time going to pick a pumpkin for Halloween, first prom, etc.). These photographs are ones that will be passed from generation to generation and it has been an interesting adventure to go back through generation after generation and see the same types of photographs.
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