1000 WORDS LISA STEIN: THE CANARY AND THE HAMMER

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Lisa Barnard’s highly-ambitious body of work The Canary & The Hammeris a response to both the events that followed the crash as well as gold’s status as a ‘barometer for the state of the economy, and is, most fundamentally, a potent symbol of ultimate value, beauty, purity, greed and political power.’ In so doing it raises a very interesting question about the medium it utilises: how can photography, which has eluded stable definition since its inception, a medium that inhabits both the tangible, real, and the virtual, respond to an event as abstract as the global financial crisis?

Period15 Feb 2018

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  • Title1000 WORDS LISA STEIN: THE CANARY AND THE HAMMER
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date15/02/18
    DescriptionLisa Barnard’s highly-ambitious body of work The Canary & The Hammer is a response to both the events that followed the crash as well as gold’s status as a ‘barometer for the state of the economy, and is, most fundamentally, a potent symbol of ultimate value, beauty, purity, greed and political power.’ In so doing it raises a very interesting question about the medium it utilises: how can photography, which has eluded stable definition since its inception, a medium that inhabits both the tangible, real, and the virtual, respond to an event as abstract as the global financial crisis?
    URLwww.1000wordsmag.com/lisa-barnard/
    PersonsLisa Barnard
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