Monday, November 1, 2010

Corinne Botz

     By looking at Corinne Botz you wouldn't think that she is interested in domestic violence, obsessions, or death/crime scenes. But after listening to her lecture and seeing parts of her series, I really understood what she was about and what she does. Corinne Botz had a topic-- and in researching her topic of domestic violence she discovered something really great which was the little miniature dollhouse set ups of murder scenes. She stumbled upon this and became really intrigued and took artistic photographs of these dollhouse rooms and people. I really liked her photography because it was vintage and contained a lot of skilled artwork in the subjects-- but it rises the question in me if this is really her work or not. I personally think the actual artist she be credited with the dollhouse miniatures because they are hers... but because Corinne Botz re-interpreted (I guess) the dollhouse in a different way maybe they could also be hers too? But I just feel like the actual artist of the model (whose name I cannot remember) took so much time to make these things then someone like Corinne Botz can come and just snap a quick picture and basically steal the credit (not that that is her intention at all but from a distant point of view very well could be).
     It was also very interesting as most people were able to realize that all her photography was interchangeable. Old haunted houses somehow seemed like dollhouses and vice versa. It's funny how artists have visions and do things certain ways and are sometimes unable to change their views because they like what they like and usually without thinking about it do only that. Or it's just a cool coincidence that her work turns out the same. Who knows.


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