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Sarah Baker, “Your future's all used up,” from series Beauty Spread, 2011 "Baker’s "Beauty Spread" series references the consumption associated with old-fashioned Hollywood glamour: martinis, Nat Sherman black cigarettes, and gold leaf obliquely reference the trappings of celebrity and high society. Rather than revealing her entire identity, as Baker has done in previous work, here she uses body parts—from a hand or an eye to a breast or collarbone—to perform acts, including smoking a cigarette or holding a drink. Baker then took the original photographic prints and made interventions on them, from actually spilling martini mix or gold leaf to placing objects such as a cocktail strainer on top and re-photographed them. The resulting images oscillate between trompe l’oeuil and documents of performing fabulousness. In addition to these analog interventions, digital renderings of Baker’s signature—from the shadows on the chest plate to the S in the iris of the eye—are spread throughout the images. At once Baker conflates old-fashioned glamour with beauty found at the tap of a mouse pad." -Kathy Battista Photo Credits: Links: |
