Richard Mosse made use of an unexpected color that made his photographs pop and more eye-catching towards its viewers. The Irish-born photographer used the color hot pink, which is not normally associated with the subject of his photography -- conflict. Mosse employed vibrant pink hues in Infra, a series where he portrayed conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The photos were hypnotic, beautiful, and jarring, even more so with the bright pink hues in the images:
“Somehow the way he has done it both repels and attracts you – it gets you completely immersed in the subject matter,” Brett Rogers, director of the Photographers’ Gallery and chair of the panel that awarded Mosse the 2014 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, told the Guardian at the time. Mosse is one of a generation of artists behind the conceptual turn that a strand of documentary photography has undergone in recent years. These photographers strive to make their viewers conscious of photography’s limitations and its inherently flawed claims to objective truth by bringing in elements of fiction or by using, as Mosse does, a highly stylised visual language that forces us to look at familiar subjects in a different way.
Displaced, the first retrospective exhibition of Mosse’s work, is currently on show at Fondazione MAST in Bologna, Italy, showcasing 77 large-scale images, installations and videos made between 2010 and the present. It chronicles how his approach has developed over time. As well as Infra and its sister project, the multimedia installation The Enclave (2013), the exhibition features his 2017 Prix Pictet-winning stills and film Heat Maps and Incoming (2017). Like the earlier works, these were created using military imaging technology, this time a thermal heat camera that can detect body heat from 30m away and is illegal under international law.
Image credit: Richard Mosse Platon, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, 2012. Collection Jack Shainman
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Yeah it's important to have a sense of humor, but really, isn't this rather childish? How are you going to explain this to the kids? Oh, they'll remember this moment, when the whole town's signs went silly. They'll remember.
And the drunk drivers will be saying "Oh, I thought they were joke signs, not really serious about us actually reading them and understanding that they're not jokes."
Nice.
It's fine to take it lightly, but a cop showing up even every now and again gets the message across pretty quick "don't cruise through this stop sign". And if that doesn't quite work the cost of the ticket for a moving violation as well as the added points to your insurance will speak volumes.
I´m not liying...
If was done just for the fun of it though, then I'm for it.
dude, when every pompously official-sounding message of government already has the credibility of an arsonist giving fire-safety tips, you oughta think about the benefits of cutting through the clutter to reclaim some little bit of attention. Or you could just take a breath and take what seems like a much-needed vacation.
And the possibility of people interpreting the stop signs themselves as fakes is too big a risk to take with people's lives.
"I'm sorry I ran over your daughter, but isn't that a funny sign?"
Reading comprehension suffers yet another in a long series of slaps in the face.