Assignment 1: Thomas Demand’s Pacific Sun
Introduction German artist Thomas Demand is a perfectionist. He is one of Germany’s greatest contemporary artists. If he believes that one of his photographs isn’t right, he wouldn’t think twice before swapping it with another. All his subjects are on Germany, and some of the topics that he relishes depicting through his work include political and social themes. He took thousands of individual photographs that made the frames of a hundred second video titled Pacific Sun. What drew me to the Pacific Sun is the way Demand was able to create a to-and-fro movement of objects Continue reading...
