Where Does Digital Photo Manipulation Stand in Relation to Popular Culture Arts Today?
The concept of Spinning Pop considers elements of Pop Art through an inventive and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically records a spectator's experience of the contemporary digital age. While the technological developments have enabled artists to explore the mechanisms of this new aesthetic direction, the work remains ultimately about the ideas that are explored during a popular culture arts sense. The photograph and its manipulation are only the means, or rather one among the mediums of option to achieve the articulation of these ideas. Digital photo manipulation reaches back to the very infancy of photography, a time where separate emulsion plates were compiled to make panoramic landscapes. Throughout the 1980's and 90's, digital imagemanipulation equipment and software enabled us to readily transform our captured images. This transformation through the adding of other components in...