Negative Exchange

I think the most successful set for the negative exhange project was Kris and Katie. Kris changed the meaning and focus of Katie's original picture. In Katie's original, the bones seem to be the focus because they cover the entire picture and the person is obscured. The black and white of the original adds to the effect because the bones are very white and they pop out at the viewer. At first, I could not tell the person was standing behind them. The cropping of Kris's interpretaton closes in on the person. It is not clear that those are bones in front of the person but they seem to cage the person into this tiny space. The color makes the person stand out more from the bones. I want to move closer to the picture and see who the person is, whereas in Katie's original I am satisfied with discovering the person hidden by the bones.

Katie's version of Kris's original is also very different. Katie's version is two (or more?) photographs woven together - the color photograph and a black and white version. Kris's process stops with the final print of the picture, while Katie's process continues. Her interpretation is more hands on and so the photograph becomes more than a flat print. She has constructed or built something.