andrey bogush
colour pickers
Color pickers
2011-2013
Series of natively digital photographs embedding colour picker GUI of the image editing software.
"In Photoshop, the color picker is a basic tool that provides a pop-up window containing image-relevant areas of a color spectrum. The user can visually select a numerically defined color by clicking on any available pixel. In Bogush's Color Picker series these pop-up windows, with their computer-generated color palettes, disrupt the photographs they so succinctly define, a decision that highlights the space between the image we see and the code that allows us to see it. According to the artist, he is "looking for some stability between the pixel and the recognizable image, and the condition in-between."
In psychology, apperception is described as the process by which an individual perceives new experiences in relation to past experiences; its focus is on how that knowledge is individually assimilated to form a new whole. To those literate in photographic processes, this series demonstrates its own construction and allows us to integrate the fundamentals of Bogush's decision-making rubric into our overall understanding of his images. But this experience of apperception varies wildly between those inside and those outside of the photography community. By including the color picker graphic in these images, Bogush says that he is "in a sense, making [his] work for photographers, or at least for people who are aware of pixels and layers.""
from Digital Apperception // Andrey Bogush, Liz Sales
https://img-cache.oppcdn.com/fixed/27716/assets/Jz8hqCr55arpvYju.pdf
"Bogush has included Photoshop graphics in his Color Picker series. 'These images of colour pickers function as a very direct reference to Photoshop as well as to digital photography in general,' he says. 'My works focus on how the image was done and how the viewer would be decoding it.'"
from The Perfect Playground, Diane Smyth, British Journal of Photography, 2012
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