Voyeuristic Art
What if you could look through someone else's eyes and see what they see? What if your art comprised of attempting to answer that question? What would you be willing to give up to create a body of work that took years and yielded nine photographs? What you would get is a collection of photographs that could become internationally famous like those of Tomok Yoneda.
Yoneda is a photographer who was born in Japan but currently lives in London. The body of work I'm speaking about is a collection of photographs where she photographed a document of importance through the spectacles of another famous person. An example is a photograph of looking through Freud's spectacles at a document written by his student and later biggest rival Carl Jung. Imagine looking through the spectacles of the famous author James Joyce, viewing a letter written to his publisher.
These are intimate moments in the lives of these famous people. The body of work took so long to complete because these objects, but the spectacles and the documents are often found in museums and archives requiring loads of paper work and lots of bureaucracy. It's definitely a unique artistic move and Yoneda was willing to put the time, effort and energy into making this collection a reality. She not only had to have an artistic vision, but had to have the capacity to share this vision with officials internationally as she made her case internationally to all the museums.
Having a huge vision and creating what many would consider a small body of work may seem like a daunting experience. This is one of those times in an artists life when the mission is just as important as the finished product. Her process is as much a part of the photograph as the black and white image we see in the gallery or museum exhibition.
What are you made of? What lengths are you willing to go to in order to capture a vision and accomplish a mission that might define you for eternity?
The secret pleasure of....
Greg Katz
helping artists create successful and sustainable businesses
Yoneda is a photographer who was born in Japan but currently lives in London. The body of work I'm speaking about is a collection of photographs where she photographed a document of importance through the spectacles of another famous person. An example is a photograph of looking through Freud's spectacles at a document written by his student and later biggest rival Carl Jung. Imagine looking through the spectacles of the famous author James Joyce, viewing a letter written to his publisher.
These are intimate moments in the lives of these famous people. The body of work took so long to complete because these objects, but the spectacles and the documents are often found in museums and archives requiring loads of paper work and lots of bureaucracy. It's definitely a unique artistic move and Yoneda was willing to put the time, effort and energy into making this collection a reality. She not only had to have an artistic vision, but had to have the capacity to share this vision with officials internationally as she made her case internationally to all the museums.
Having a huge vision and creating what many would consider a small body of work may seem like a daunting experience. This is one of those times in an artists life when the mission is just as important as the finished product. Her process is as much a part of the photograph as the black and white image we see in the gallery or museum exhibition.
What are you made of? What lengths are you willing to go to in order to capture a vision and accomplish a mission that might define you for eternity?
The secret pleasure of....
Greg Katz
helping artists create successful and sustainable businesses
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