This experience informs much of his work, which questions the meaning of
photographic imagery within popular culture and draws from snapshots, advertising, news photographs, and public and corporate archives.
Not exact matches
Gwenn Thomas» photographs of doors and windows are embedded
within sculptural frames in ways that question perceptions of
photographic imagery, and our experience of lived space.
But as
photographic imagery becomes embedded
within an ever - proliferating array of visual spaces, the contemporary viewer is even harder pressed to isolate and articulate the photograph's distinguishing qualities.
The artist studied photography at Manchester Polytechnic, from 1970 to 1973, and has developed an international reputation for his innovative
imagery, his oblique approach to social documentary, and his input to
photographic culture
within the UK and abroad.