Photographer Siru Kivisto's series called 'Layered Within' looks into fashion and mass consumption. Her images are inspired by Renaissance portraiture and express the relationship between an item of clothing that is no longer a treasured object. She represents this in her work by having the model wear many layers of clothing which adds an awkward feel to her images. Her image plays with contradictions of fashion such as ugliness and beauty, new and old, natural and artificial. I found her work to be really inspiring with how she represents mass consumption by layering the model in lots of clothes which adds a different view to the clothing.
Jeanette Montgomery Barron.
'My mothers clothes' is a series by photographer Jeanette Montgomery Barron. She started taking pictures of her mothers clothes and accessories when her mum became ill with Alzheimer's to help her remember her past. When talking about the project Barron said:
This project started because my mother had to move from a big house in Virginia where she lived. She had started becoming difficult to manage and she would leave the water running and flood the house or she would get in the car, drive and get lost. So we had to move her, but at home she had this huge closet of clothes and, almost as a part of a daily ritual, she would go in everyday and do a sort of inventory. I didn’t know what she was going to do with all that, so I thought about doing a sort of catalogue or an album of her closet, taking shots of her clothes and putting them all in a scrapbook for her. I live and work in Rome, but I’m often back and forth between the States and Italy, so I put a bunch of clothes in a suitcase, brought them back with me and started taking photographs.
Documenting the clothes in this way almost turns them in to a portrait themselves as they start to represent her mother even after she has gone.
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