Laura Plageman

For awhile I have been looking for another artist who focuses on the manipulation of the photographic print.  Someone who rips, crumples and destroys their photographic print.  Finally, it has come to my attention that the photographer, Laura Plageman is manipulating the photographic print.  I looked at her work and carefully studied it, and really liked the way she sculpted her prints.  I also read on her website that she considers her art part photograph and part sculpture, which gave me inspiration for my latest series of prints.

All of her pictures seem to come out at you and are not flat.  Her pictures seem to be very deliberately sculpted based on the individual print.  The work is not a statement against littering or pollution, it is just a way to manipulate the print to give the photograph a different, more distorted look.  Everything she does is very deliberate and has very high quality, even lighting.    

You can check out her photographs here:  photolp.com/projects/entry/response

So far when I have made my prints, I didn't manipulate the print based on the individual print, instead I have experimented with different techniques and always had the idea that the print had to be pasted flat to foam core.  The prints I am showing in critique on Friday, I have made them into more of a 3D sculpture with multiple layers and multiple photographic prints than a flat photograph.  I am pleased with the results I have achieved, and I think putting together these prints with my old style prints will give more of a variety to the people who are viewing my prints as a series.