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Jonathan Rowe
People of Significant Worth
Explores identity in the discourses of photography, time and socialclass.Through the production of photographic portraiture new readings of identity and representation are sought, concentrating on commonly or personally held negative perceptions.
The technical processes of the medium itself are employed sympathetically: Time is part of photography’s fabric, most obviously technically. Time is also employed here as a major element of the mediums para-language; howit says.
Conventionally, photographic techniques fix a subject to a particular period of time. Deliberately placing objects outside of their given time for effect, or anachrony is employed to disrupt standard readings and subsequent discourse. For example, the images ask questions about progress by inferring recurrence. In so doing new readings of class and identity areachieved.
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