Barbara Kruger (The Photograph as Document)

 Kruger is an American conceptual artist and designer, she has worked for a variety of people working on publications, magazines and art directing just to name a few. Kruger’s work is extremely conceptual and political from what I can tell, with the bottom image probably commenting on the cold war between Russia and America, and the threat of nuclear war, which would probably wipe out the planet, so her works definitely have a political concept there, and a lot of her work is based on war or war image’s, with the top two images being of a war plane and a boat exploding with what looks like a medal, the top one could be a comment of how soldiers are given medal of killing people, so the boat represents the death side and the medal, is the commendation for it, then the image with the plane could be showing a juxtaposition between what we are dropping and what should be being dropped, so the bombs are falling, but they should be aid to help people that are suffering, so there turning into bags of stuff. These are just speculation of what the works about because this is just a quick post but I like the work and find it interesting so I’ll definitely keep it in mind for possible ideas for future work.

(Images and information Source)

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/barbara-kruger-1443

http://www.barbarakruger.com/biography.shtml