http://www.bustle.com/articles/22050-why-is-objectification-bad-the-sneaky-way-womens-bodies-are-cropped-to-pieces
Dismemberment is a gruesome brand of objectification, and it preserves the idea that women are just the sum of their body parts. Of course, this isn't a new thing — women have been objectified on canvas for centuries. (In the early 1860s, Manet’s Olympia and The Luncheon on the Grass were the first female nudes to create a fracas merely because his naked subjects dared to bare their faces; squarely meeting the male gaze.)The Gaze has been a subject of much debate, it has also been used in feminist and Freudian contexts. Woman have been programmed to be acutely aware of the Gaze, since woman have been subjugated and treated as property throughout History.
Related conceptually and residing thematically between two previous bodies of work, Alpine Star and Other Nature, emmett explores our desire to give structure and assign meaning to our memories, and our inability
to ever fully know or understand ourselves through self-reflection. As Jude brings coherence to his own
unintended “series” of emotionally charged pictures, the everyday notion of the past collides with the more
philosophical and improbable idea of The Past, creating a tension between our sentimental engagement
with photographs, and the nagging sense that it’s all just an illusion. Through nuanced editing and a
purposeful exploitation of his own photographic mistakes, Jude fleshes out and finesses this tension into
something palpable—an aesthetic inspired by equal parts Motörhead and Jean-Paul Sartre.
to ever fully know or understand ourselves through self-reflection. As Jude brings coherence to his own
unintended “series” of emotionally charged pictures, the everyday notion of the past collides with the more
philosophical and improbable idea of The Past, creating a tension between our sentimental engagement
with photographs, and the nagging sense that it’s all just an illusion. Through nuanced editing and a
purposeful exploitation of his own photographic mistakes, Jude fleshes out and finesses this tension into
something palpable—an aesthetic inspired by equal parts Motörhead and Jean-Paul Sartre.
Nausea
Nausea—taken from the title of Sartre’s book— is a remarkable body of photographs using the interiors
of schools to explore what Jude calls ‘psychic oppression’. Using a highly original visual language,
this first show of Jude’s work in Britain includes some of the most intriguing images to emerge
from America in recent years.…Jude appears to be returning to the scene of a crime—peering
through windows, doorways, and iron grilles into deserted rooms and corridors. Avoiding sentimentality,
Jude trains his camera on the mundane, recalling the banality of humdrum life.Jude’s photographs
have an affinity with William Eggleston’s most vital work. In place of obvious pictorial
devices he employs radical framing and narrow focus. With an immaculate eye for colour,
he invests, each scene with a tension and unease that brings to mind the films of David Lynch.
of schools to explore what Jude calls ‘psychic oppression’. Using a highly original visual language,
this first show of Jude’s work in Britain includes some of the most intriguing images to emerge
from America in recent years.…Jude appears to be returning to the scene of a crime—peering
through windows, doorways, and iron grilles into deserted rooms and corridors. Avoiding sentimentality,
Jude trains his camera on the mundane, recalling the banality of humdrum life.Jude’s photographs
have an affinity with William Eggleston’s most vital work. In place of obvious pictorial
devices he employs radical framing and narrow focus. With an immaculate eye for colour,
he invests, each scene with a tension and unease that brings to mind the films of David Lynch.
—David Chandler, Senior Curator
The Photographers’ Gallery, London, 1992
People may say that Ron Judes images may be boring, or too simple, I however find his simplicity very beautiful. Little snatches of what we see in everyday life that we may take for granted, things that we may see but store away far in our mind never thinking about it again. I find this approach incredibly refreshing for I like to find beauty within the simple. I was worried that my photographs may seem too plan however seeing these I realize that I should stick with that I persevere to be beauty.
The Photographers’ Gallery, London, 1992
People may say that Ron Judes images may be boring, or too simple, I however find his simplicity very beautiful. Little snatches of what we see in everyday life that we may take for granted, things that we may see but store away far in our mind never thinking about it again. I find this approach incredibly refreshing for I like to find beauty within the simple. I was worried that my photographs may seem too plan however seeing these I realize that I should stick with that I persevere to be beauty.
