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Before and After
Jim Shaw American
Not on view
Shaw, a student of Baldessari’s at CalArts, was similarly fascinated by popular uses of photographic retouching and by the didactic simplicity of the before-and-after format. As part of his master’s thesis exhibition in 1978, Shaw created these heavily retouched photographs illustrating the transformation of ordinary people into reptilian extraterrestrials, affectionately lampooning the conventions of tabloid photographs that “prove” the existence of alien life.
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