Song of Love- Contemporary street art old photo using mixed media and collage
By Emerson Cooper
Located in New York, NY
Mixed media on albumen print 4.5” x 6” This item is framed in white wood frame Emerson Cooper relentlessly collects vintage photographs and Victorian cabinet cards. He transforms them into meticulously constructed, psychologically charged artworks by using a mix of thread, paint, collage or digital manipulation. Small cut images and repetitive patterns such as lines, dots, numbers or letters, are omnipresent in his staged imagery to help transform a landscape or to hide a face. Used widely from the mid- 19th century after the invention of albumen prints by Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard, the cabinet card remains a familiar visual object. Contemporaneous to the use of cabinet cards were the psychoanalytical theories of Freud and the high point of public interest in freak shows...
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Emerson Cooper Art
Mixed Media, Photographic Paper
