Uta Barth is one of my favourite photographers. Her work challenges peoples perceptions of what really is photography. I think her work is a good mixture between photography and fine art and it creates really beautiful and controversial pieces of work. It really makes you think about the piece of work as its not obvious what it is or what it is about.
Uta Barth was born in Germany and since the 90s has been working in the US. Her work is all about challenging the way we take photos and how we look at them. Her main message is about how the human eye sees diffrently from a camera lense and we never really know what we are looking at. It's almost as if she is less interested in where the camera is pointing than the act of looking through the lens in the first place. I think this is a really good way of looking at photography and though some people will argue that its just a load of blurry images i disagree and think there is alot more behind it.
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This is my image inspired by Uta Barth. When i looked at her images i saw that she would use a depth of field to focus in on one bold thing and then make the background blurry so you didn't know what you were looking at. I wanted to recreate the way that you focused in on the colours in the back ground so the person who was looking at it would have to think about what it means.
i really like this image because i think i have done her images justice and created something really colourful and fun. I also think the way i have used a cup not only draws your eye to the image but makes you wonder as its in a place it doesnt belong. if i could improve then i would of done some more editting to not make the background so bright as the light bouncing off is a bit over the top.
