Julie Cockburn
The Stepford Wives
The UK artist Julie Cockburn is not a photographer, but works with photography as the basic foundation of her art. A regular visitor to junk shops, garage sales and flea markets, she buys old photographs, picture postcards and even paintings. Her main interest is portraiture, but neither does she entirely avoid landscape, architecture or still-lifes. She is above all interested in historical portraits and pictures of beautiful young women – university graduates from academic yearbooks, stylized images of actresses and other forgotten stars, rich society ladies, but also upper-class housewives or ordinary young girls. Another area she concentrates on are portraits of children; only rarely does she work with pictures of men. It could therefore be said that the very essence of her creative process is the artist’s passion as a collector. Where a regular collector would stop, however, and enshrine their precious finds within the safety of their growing collection, Julie Cockburn embarks on a process of metamorphosis which demonstrates her own creative gesture. The artist herself describes her method as “having a conversation with the image… perhaps adding what seems to be hidden there or missing, unspoken. I often feel that the original image were somehow waiting for me to complete them in this way.“
#23 artificial worlds
Content
- ––– Profiles
- Lev Manovich
- Jerzy Olek
- Julie Cockburn
- Kateřina Zochová
- Jakub Nepraš
- Jörg Sasse
- Maxime Guyon
- Masha Ru
- Tomáš Lumpe
- Jiří Šigut
- Linda Čihařová
- Geert Goiris
- Roman Schramm
- Gottfried Jäger
- Václav Cigler
- ––– Interview
- With Pavel Smetana and Ivor Diosi on Artificial Worlds and Image Manipulation
- ––– Discoveries
- Iveta Kulhavá
- Kasia Klimpel
- Petra Hudcová
- ––– Theory
- Photographic Image as (non)-Art and the Limits of Artificial Worlds
- ––– Events
- Paris Photo 2013
- Heaven on Earth or "About a Chair"
- ––– Fotograf Gallery
- Silvie Milková
- Petr Strouhal
- Erik Sikora
- Zines of the Zone
- ––– Reviews
- Jiří Toman
- History of Light
- Tell the Truth, but Tell It Slant
- Jaromír Funke
Archive
- #45 hypertension
- #44 empathy
- #43 collecting
- #42 food
- #41 postdigital photography
- #40 earthlings
- #39 delight, pain
- #38 death, when you think about it
- #37 uneven ground
- #36 new utopias
- #35 living with humans
- #34 archaeology of euphoria
- #33 investigation
- #32 Non-work
- #31 Body
- #30 Eye In The Sky
- #29 Contemplation
- #28 Cultura / Natura
- #27 Cars
- #26 Documentary Strategies
- #25 Popular Music
- #24 Seeing Is Believing
- #23 Artificial Worlds
- #22 Image and Text
- #21 On Photography
- #20 Public Art
- #19 Film
- #18 80'
- #17 Amateur Photography
- #16 Photography and Painting
- #15 Prague
- #14 Commerce
- #13 Family
- #12 Reconstruction
- #11 Performance
- #10 Eroticon
- #9 Architecture
- #8 Landscape
- #7 New Staged Photography
- #6 The Recycle Image
- #5 Borders Of Documentary
- #4 Intimacy
- #3 Transforming Of Symbol
- #2 Collective Authorship
- #1 Face