The staging of the double and the multiple: some authors
During the work on Assignment 4 first, and then on Assignment 5, I faced and developed, from different points of view, the theme of the double and the multiple.
Many authors have developed this theme in their photographic work, using both analogue and digital techniques. There are elements common to the various authors, which we can summarize as follows:
- the double and the multiple, whether obtained through analog or digital cloning, are functional to a dynamic narrative, which can be exhausted within the single image (Anthony Goicolea, Cornelia Hediger, Martin Liebscher, Paul M. Smith) or expressed in a sequence (Duane Michals) ;
- the presence of the uncanny (ref. Freud), whether it refers to concepts such as the "memento mori" (Duane Michals), to childhood traumas (Cornelia Hediger), the search for identity, the Doppelgänger;
- the mise-en-scène: formal and static (Thomas Struth, Chantal Michel) or narrative (Martin Liebscher, Anthony Goicolea), as connoted to the single author.
In assignment 4, configuring the narration of my personal story referring to the memory of a loved one, I referred to authors such as Cornelia Hediger and then found analogies with the work of Thomas Struth and with the sequences of Duane Michals (also if I have inserted them in a single image).
In Assignment 5, which is made up of two series, I find analogies with the works of Duane Michals, Anthony Goicolea, Cindy Sherman, Martin Liebscher.
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| Anthony Goicolea, "Last Supper", 1999 https://www.phillips.com/detail/anthony-goicolea/NY010113/304 Accessed on 28/12/2021 |
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| https://www.anthonygoicoleastudio.com/albums/past-works-1999-2004/content/class-picture/ (accessed on 28/12/2021) |