Gillian Wearing as Her Brother: 1950s Amateur Photographer and Time Traveller
I still don't know how I feel about this photo . It's one of those works of art, one minute one thinks it's brilliant, the next it's shite. It's a photo of Gillian Wearing , based on a family snapshot of her brother. She had to have an assistant to take the photo, and wear a load of silicone to resemble her brother, and she had to work hard to copy the flash lighting and background ambience. On the one hand, one's thinking, why bother? On the other hand, it's almost an epitomie of postmodernism, to use a lot of energy to replicate something which was done in a moment, originally. I saw it for the first time in here in The Guardian , when I was travelling home on Maundy Thursday. And, here I am on Easter Sunday morning taking time out to blog about it. So it's certainly got the keep-coming-back-to-it quality of a great photo. And I agree with her entirely about her dream subject: "I would like to time-travel a few decades back and tak...