Sandy Skoglund

Title: Revenge of the Goldfish

Artist: Sandy Skoglund

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Year: 1981



Give a brief description of the movement, photographer, or term you researched. How are they significant to the history of photography (50-75 words)?



Sandy Skoglund is an American photographer who creates surrealistic images and builds up her sets quite elaborately which takes months. The image that really stuck out to me was called "Revenge of the Goldfish." I liked this image because of the color scheme, as well as how the image told a story. However, the image's story was pretty vague, or should I say, open for interpretation. It gave the sense of being underwater, as well as the goldfish being angry or attacking. It makes me wonder what the people did to the goldfish or one goldfish in particular to make them want revenge.



Write a short personal reaction to the movement, photographer or term you researched. What is interesting or not interesting about the work (50 – 75 words).

In my opinion, Sandy's work is the most appealing or interesting to look at so far. (Besides Ansel Adams, of course) I think Sandy usually picks really bright colors and when she incorporates two colors together they always mesh really well. These images are all really eye catching and I could look at them for hours.







Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Shannon