Monday, March 5, 2007

center of the creative universe 'liverpool'

i vistied this exbition at the tate modern in liverpool. the exibition showed documentry of liverpool life. the main mediea that was used in this was photography.

neville gabie 1959 used a serious of photograhs called playing away uk-liverpool 1998-2005. The collection of pictures showed goals that had been painted on the sides of buildings across liverpool no person to be seen in them but a deserted area with vandlised buildings as goals.

Tom Wood 1951
his collection of pictures was from citerzens on bus from the inside and out. his projct was not planned as serious from the outset part of woods everyday routine he uses reflections in bus windows and doors as formal elements. fragmenting views and questioning our our preception of the scence. bring street photography in doors

martin parr 1983
'the lens on the street' is a serious of picture from around liverpool. martin parr is known for his high colour depictions of everyday life and customs in britian like one of his great influnces tony ray jones, paris images are redolent of the quintessential oddness of englishness living on mersyside in early 1980s, parr took many images of the area, most notably his gaudy photographs of the faded resort of new brighton. the images presentd here some of which arre exhibited for the first time ever, show different side of mersyside-a derelick and dystopian vision of liverpoool in the early 1980s.
his pictures capture the character of the rtimes in these areas in one of his pictures he focus on the curtians of a house showing t he tweedness of them through the colour.

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