#simone lueck

Photo 66, 67, 68, 69, and 70

Artist: Simone Lueck

Medium: Photography

Source: http://www.simonelueck.com/Cuba-TV

The images I’ve selected to add to my visual journal come from Simone Lueck’s project titled, “Cuba TV.” What initially attracted me to these images is that each TV seemed to have its own personality.

What I like about photo 66 is that Lueck included actual people in this image. This makes for more of an interesting photo (in a collection of images which all focus on the same thing) while not taking away from the central theme of her project too much. Photo 67 and 68 weren’t as interesting to me compositionally but the thing that I was attracted to in these images were the TV screens themselves. Each TV screen seemed like a picture within a picture that represented another art piece. The fact that the TV screens were often oversaturated with color, grainy, and distorted actually gave it somewhat of an artistic aesthetic for me. I liked photo 69 both because of the items on top of the TV, which create an ethereal ambiance, and because of the TV itself, which looked like someone had just passed a magnet through it. Photo 70 was one of my favorites because I thought it was kind of creepy. It seemed like the baby doll was used as a form of decoration to make for a prettier living room, but to me, it just added an eerie vibe.

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