It's contrived images and edited clips ranked against each other.
The contrived images here are not so different from the docu-realism of his fictional work, using non-professionals.
These are some of the carefully contrived images that make this show a tribute to the talent of Soviet photographers even as it reveals their complicity in Stalin's big lie.(Nailya Alexander Gallery, 24 West 57th Street, Manhattan, through Dec. 30; free).
At a time when Victorians could not decide whether photography was an art or a science, Cameron was bent on contriving images that aspired to be paintings.
He contrived an image as an ordinary guy who worked hard to rebuild his business after his supermarkets were looted during the invasion.
Where another artist – the Canadian Jeff Wall, for example – might contrive an image of a dirty sink and a bar of soap, Eggleston seems to find his images with no sense of artifice at all.While his photographs suggest a grounding in a modernist aesthetic, he is never clever or self-consciously artful.
Sometimes, he positioned them trading-card style, in poses suggestive of action, as with Jackie Robinson seemingly in midslide; sometimes, he contrived an imaginative image, as he did with Roger Maris, with a half-dozen bats flying in the air around him.
In a tweet, the British writer Bolu Babalola, citing the social theorist Patricia Hill Collins, called Shudu an image "contrived by a white man who has noticed the 'movement' of dark-skinned women".
But when it comes to online communication, the daily assaults of -- mostly contrived -- perfect images of Sally, Becky and Harry, people we don't know but feel a one-sided connection with anyway, becomes emotionally demanding.
