Martha Rosler

Martha Rosler

Rosler is an artists, born in Brooklyn, she works mainly with photography and text. The majority of her work surrounds social issues that affect the world and daily life.

This is a great example of one of her works. Here she has taken the images of the woman taken from a fashion magazine or advert and put them in a stylish flat in the background, til you look closer and notice the scenes of war and death that are happening outside of this seemingly pleasant picture; Along with the sick dying children that are places on the furniture in with the model. I can see clearly the message Martha Rosler is trying to shout out about the fact that the majority of the world are concerned with materialistic things such as the latest phone and nice outfits and while they are looking at these things, people in other parts of the world are in extreme poverty and war. I think the fact she has placed the sick children in the same room as the model and she is only concerned with the phone she is holding is depicting our society as we know it, people aren't concerned with whats happening the other side of the world so long as their happy in their own lives.