'who's looking at the family' (1994)
Richard Billingham's series entitled 'who's looking at the family' shows raw and very realistic photographs presenting his family life at home. These photographs were meant to be
material for his paintings at first, until he used them for his exhibitions. The photograph above is an example of one of the photographs from his family members in 'who's looking at the family' series.
'who's looking at the family' series is a very personal and real life collection that is a very inspiring series, that presents an idea of his world, growing up with his family at home. Billingham took so many photographs that his family didn't even realise that he was taking them any more, so they were quite oblivious to him.
Billingham took his photographs with a cheap film and got them printed at a cheap printing place.
Richard Billingham's work is very influential because he used a very simple way of working that presented truth and the way he lived and where he grew up (Very realistic and personal). I'm wondering about if other students who are doing the same brief (entitled 'My World') as me at the moment will create similar images to Richard Billingham's work? I can see this being a very interesting project with the way our ideas and ways of presenting our world's will be presented.
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