Annotations, Teddy on tour! (Pemberton, 2015)

The images denote a teddy bear at random locations with the bear being photographed to be the centre of focus. The bears are at the edge of the frame showing the location in the full glory. When looking at the images you see different locations were the teddy bear has been photographed at with the use of different colours from the scenes with them being strong.

The connoted sections of the images are that the bear is replacing his wife in all the photos as she does not like having her photograph being taken. The symbol of the bear is designed to be his wife in all of the locations that he has travelled to in the past. The meaning of the teddy bear is to show the love of Kneidinger’s wife respecting her wishes that she does not like being photographed. The feelings for the bear is loneliness with at times the bear being shown on its own at different locations.  When looking at the work without any original context the work looks like it is a photoshoot for a soft toy company due to the way it has all been positioned.

As a viewer, I am affected by the work with how the photographer is respecting his wife’s wishes with her camera-phobia. On my laptop, the use of having higher saturated images gives the bear more power to the eye with him being sharp and colourful. The use of having high saturation gives the message of warmth and pleasure when looking at the images, as the eye will be drawn into the higher saturation of the images, this has allowed more people to look at the images without getting bored. When looking at the images you instantly see the bear on the location due to the fact it is one of the most recognisable objects, the use of having the same scarf makes all the images come together and the viewer to know that the bear is the same but the location has changed.

The original audience that the work was for the Kneidinger’s holiday album to look back at some of the locations he has visited in the past when he was on holiday. The work is important to him as it documented his time away with Kneidinger’s wife for memories, it is important to other people whose relatives don’t like being photographed with them getting ideas with what they can do. The work is contemporary as Kneidinger’s uses the bear to show his wife and it being consistent across all of the images.

The context that I have seen this  work has been on the Daily Mail’s website on my laptop which may have impacted the reading of these images due to the saturation with using different computers it will give me a different colour temperature compared to the version of my screen.  I think the work would complement a gallery setting due to the way the photographs have been taken and placed to show what has been going on with it giving the images more power than they currently have. The images I think were due to go into the magazine from the Daily Mail on the weekend as this is what is normally printed.