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Ingrid Pollard: An Interview

Video Data Bank

1999United StatesEnglishColorMono4:3Video
Tags:
Interview, Photography, VDB Interviews, Visiting Artists Program

Description

Ingrid Pollard is a photographer living in London. Her photographic works, generally of people and landscape, serve to provide a human context for issues of transmigration and “fleeting” identity. Combining personal photographs with traditional views of the English countryside, Pollard questions as well as reconstructs the concept of “Britishness.” In doing so, Pollard also scrutinizes the location of the “other,” and contrasts actual physical similarity or material likeness of people and places with perceived or socially constructed difference. Through text, Pollard further elaborates on this comparison, exposing the fictional uniformity of travel brochures and postcards.

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