wooyay!
you like your art, mr cassidy, don't you. are you familiar with wanda wulz? she was doing b3ta in the 1930s
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Wed 2 Jul 2003, 21:50,
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she was a futurist
and he and b3ta is in her future so she was right :)
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Wed 2 Jul 2003, 22:01,
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I don't recognise the name.
Thanks for the pointer - a quick Google finds several references to her double-exposure "cat and I" photo - as you say, very proto-b3ta.
I will make a mental note to investigate further.
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Wed 2 Jul 2003, 21:59,
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I will make a mental note to investigate further.
i'm not entirely sure there's that much more of her stuff
that's quite so b3tan, but that one image is particularly striking.
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Wed 2 Jul 2003, 22:02,
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for proper 1st generation photo-montage...
check out John Heartfield and the Berlin Dadaists. The FIRST photoshoppers, pre-dating the surrealists by a good couple years.
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Wed 2 Jul 2003, 22:03,
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Heartfield seems a bit crude and preachy, after all this time.
A lot of the political stuff is at the level of the Bush=monkey images - and was evidently similarly ineffective.
But I agree that it was very innovative at the time.
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Wed 2 Jul 2003, 22:16,
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But I agree that it was very innovative at the time.