Stock Adoptions (2009)

Last week, Belford left me with a disc of vintage stock photos that I've been dying to get into.

Yesterday I finally took a peek inside and decided to begin messing with some of them,

with no real objective in mind but with an abbreviated and fairly loose set of guidelines, such as,

1. slight sepia toning on the grayscale images,

2. a uniform use of the color red (clearly my Barbara Kruger influence),

3. the continued use of the X motif, a recent favorite and always pregnant with meaning,

4, text elements must be imperitave phrases and always in the Didot font which I think plays nicely with the vintage innocence of the stock images, etc...

I may do more as an excercize, but here's what I came up with last night...