Highlife by Elaine Duigenan (born in 1964)
The photograph is taken in 2005.
“Duigenan’s photograph of tights in the series Nylon are digital photograms or ‘scannergrams’, made without the use of camera. She placed the object directly onto a scanner and digitally manipulated them before printing. Duigenan also cropped the images to give them a quirky and abstract edge. Interested in what she terms ‘intimate archaeology’, she draws out the texture of the nylon material and accentuates its transparency and impermanence.”
This is a very interesting photograph. You might not be able to see it from this pic, but in real the texture of the nylon is extremely REAL. I almost thing there’s actually a cloth pressed in the frame, but in fact it’s a print. This is the most extraordinary photograph in the photography collection in V&A.
V&A is actually the first museum in Britain that has a Photography collection, very interesting. The photographs there are not many though. But they all deserve a recognition, very real.
