Alice Wong, Painting Photographs

Painting Photographs

Alice Wong

Publisher
TBW Books
Year
2023
ISBN
978-1-942953-48-7
Specifications
Flexicover with booklet
24.1 x 29.8 cm
76 pages
58 colour plates
Shortlisted, Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards 2023

Alice Wong, an artist at the Creative Growth Art Center, works over vintage vernacular photographs with paint markers, breathing new life into family-album kitsch and clichéd shots of plants and landscapes and turning them into a hyper-coloured plane of vivid abstraction. Her hand both enhances and obscures the formal qualities of the appropriated pictures, bringing energy to each underlying image and recalibrating the viewer's eye.

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