LIFE IMITATES ART When I was young I wanted to be an artist and my approach to photography is still informed by my continuing interest in art. I ended up working in design and advertising, but because of my work I’m intrigued by the interaction between an image and its title and how meaning is influenced by that interplay. The aim of this exercise was to see whether the way my own images are perceived would be affected by assigning them the titles of works by other artists. The artists are listed in italics, but any link that I perceive between their work and mine may not be immediately apparent to anyone else. Some of these images were shot on film and the negatives weren’t well cared for, but they haven’t been retouched because the scratches and marks are part of their history.
COVER: Untitled–Yellow Car (William Eggleston)
Deer Shelter Skyspace (James Turrell)
Wrong (John Baldessari)
The Artist Attending the Mourning of a Young Girl (Sir John Everett Millais)
Small Male Figure with Goggles (Dame Elizabeth Frink)
Goggle Head (Dame Elizabeth Frink)
Peter Getting Out of Nicks Pool (David Hockney)
A Line Made by Walking (Richard Long)
Bad Habits (Philip Guston)
Lighthouse Hill (Edward Hopper)
Pool #6 (Ed Ruscha) OVERLEAF: Standard, Amarillo, Texas (Ed Ruscha)
Dancing Man (Keith Haring)
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (Caspar David Freidrich)
La Danse (Henri Matisse)
Les Grandes Baigneuses (Pierre-Auguste Renoir)
Living Sculpture (Piero Manzoni)
Trafalgar Square (Piet Mondrian)
Felt Suit (Joseph Beuys)
The Lovers (Rene Magritte)
Mirror Performance, New York (Yayoi Kusama, Harry Shunk and János Kender)
One and Three Chairs (Joseph Kosuth)
© ROB STEPHEN, 2021