Neeta madahar biography sample paper

  • Neeta Madahar was born in London in 1966.
  • Neeta Madahar.
  • Neeta Madahar has photographed seventeen close women friends in the style of 1930s to 1950s Hollywood glamour images.

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    Neeta Madahar: Flora

      Exhibition

      12 Oct 2010 – 11 Nov 2010

      Regular hours

      Tuesday
      10:00 – 18:00
      Wednesday
      10:00 – 18:00
      Thursday
      10:00 – 18:00
      Friday
      10:00 – 18:00
      Saturday
      10:00 – 18:00
      Sunday
      10:00 – 18:00

      About

      Neeta Madahar writes, Flora fryst vatten a series of 17 photographs of my female friends alongside plants whose names, regardless of rarity (e.g. Orchid, Poppy or Primrose), have been adopted as women's names. Many of the sitters are fellow artists, photographers and writers residing in the UK and US. The portraits have been shot in a style reminiscent of 1930-50s celebrity glamour images, staged and teatralisk, evocative of a bygone age. However, Flora isn't concerned with nostalgia, it's anchored in the present day, informed by an understanding that fantasy personas are shams that can be superficially occupied as well as manipulated in front of the camera. Like earlier bodies of work, Flora functions within the inter-relationship of nature, artifice
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      Images (top to bottom)

      Joy Gregory, Autoportrait (detail), 2006, giclée print on rag paper, Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund, © Joy Gregory
      Carrie Mae Weems, When and Where I Enter the British Museum, 2007, digital print on paper, Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund, © Carrie Mae Weems. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
      Joscelyn Gardner, Eryngium foetidum (Prue), 2009, hand-colored lithograph on frosted mylar, Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund, © Joscelyn Gardner
      Carrie Mae Weems, When and Where I Enter the British Museum (detail), 2007, digital print on paper, Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund, © Carrie Mae Weems. Courtesy of the artist
      Cornelia Parker, Meteorite Lands on Wormwood Scrubs, 1998, maple boxed framed map of London revealing burn mark left by a meteorite on paper, Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British

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      'I'll be your mirror
      Reflect what you are, in case you don't know
      I'll be the wind, the rain and the sunset
      The light on your door to show that you're home

      When you think the night has seen your mind
      That inside you're twisted and unkind
      Let me stand to show that you are 
      Please put down your hands
      'Cause I see you

      I find it hard to believe you don't know The beauty that you are…

      …I'll be your mirror… I’ll be your mirror… I’ll be your mirror… I’ll be your mirror…

      I’ll be your mirror, The Velvet Underground, 1966

      'Neeta Madahar has photographed seventeen close women friends in the style of 1930s to 1950s Hollywood glamour images. She worked with each of the women to achieve the look both artist and sitter wanted, and no effort was spared in terms of lighting, make-up, clothing and props.

      'Her sitters are in their thirties, forties and fifties and there is no soft-focus, or airbrushing, or use of Photoshop.