Friday 27 April 2012

Barbara Kruger

Barbara Kruger is an american photographer who uses text in most of her photographs. She usually takes black and white photographs and adds some text highlighted in bright colors such as red.  Her work can be sometimes found on ads and galleries. Barbara usually uses words as 'you, 'your', 'we', 'They' and 'I'.
Kruger juxtapose her imaginery text containing criticism of sexism  and the circulation of power within cultures is a recurring motif in Kruger's work.
She was born on January the 26th 1945 in Newak in New Jersey.
 

In the first image Kruger has used a black and white photograph with a negative effect. then over-layed with a white text highlighted with red.
the second image is one of Kruger's ads in a shopping mall.

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