{"id":35078,"title":"UFO Photos","dimensions":"6 × (15.2 × 16.2 cm)","date_begin":"1978-01-01","material":"photograph","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":452,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Gagosian, Los Angeles","cached_tag_list":"jim shaw","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"JSHAW 1978.0002","stream_count_app":12,"permalink":"ufo-photos","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/091/353/medium_500/Afbeelding15.jpg?1699872409","cached_actor_names":"Jim Shaw","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","category":{"en":"Photography","nl":"","fr":""},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/091/353/large/Afbeelding15.jpg?1699872409","poster_credits":"(c)Jim Shaw, 1992 - Courtesy of the Artist and Gagosian, Los Angeles","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align:justify\"\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eUFO Photos\u003c/em\u003e series was part of Jim Shaw\u0026#39;s graduate project at CalArts/California Institute of the Arts in 1978. The 1970s saw a large increase in the number of UFO sightings in the United States and more specifically in California. People became obsessed with alien encounters and their reporting. With these heavily retouched photos, Shaw ironically alludes to the often poor quality of \u0026#39;photographic evidence\u0026#39; image manipulation, done to proof the existence of extraterrestrial life in popular media. Shaw observes how, in times of uncertainty and distrust in politics, we project our fears on inexplicable phenomena such as observations of extraterrestrial life, spiritual experiences, or conspiracy theories. In the Martian Portraits, which was also part of his graduation project, Shaw shows the transformation of humans into reptilian aliens. The idea, more than a century old, that the world is controlled by evil reptiles has regularly resurfaced in recent decades under the influence of conspiracy theorists such as Zecharia Sitchin and David Vaughan Icke.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u0026ldquo;In the 1970s, when I was starting out, it was the era of the disaster film and also of close encounters. It was like people wanted the end to happen because reality was so fucking boring.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align:justify\"\u003eDe reeks \u003cem\u003eUFO Photos\u003c/em\u003e maakte deel uit van het afstudeerproject van Jim Shaw aan het California Institute of the Arts in 1978. In de jaren 1970 was er een grote toename van het aantal ufo-waarnemingen in de Verenigde Staten en meer specifiek in Californi\u0026euml;. Mensen raakten geobsedeerd door buitenaardse ontmoetingen en de verslaggeving erover. Met deze sterk geretoucheerde foto\u0026rsquo;s knipoogt Shaw naar de vaak slechte kwaliteit van de beeldmanipulatie van het \u0026lsquo;fotografisch bewijs\u0026rsquo; in populaire media voor het bestaan van buitenaards leven. Shaw observeert hoe we in tijden van onzekerheid en wantrouwen in de politiek onze angsten projecteren op onverklaarbare fenomenen, zoals observaties van buitenaards leven, spirituele ervaringen, of complottheorie\u0026euml;n. In de Martian Portraits, ook onderdeel van zijn afstudeerproject, toont Shaw de transformatie van mensen in reptielachtige buitenaardse wezens. Het meer dan honderd jaar oude idee dat de wereld bestuurd wordt door kwaadaardige reptielen, duikt de laatste decennia, onder invloed van complottheoretici als Zecharia Sitchin en David Vaughan Icke, regelmatig weer op.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u0026ldquo;In the 1970s, when I was starting out, it was the era of the disaster film and also of close encounters. It was like people wanted the end to happen because reality was so fucking boring.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align:justify\"\u003eLa s\u0026eacute;rie UFO photos faisait partie du projet de fin d\u0026rsquo;\u0026eacute;tudes de Jim Shaw, en 1978, au California Institute of the Arts. Dans les ann\u0026eacute;es\u0026nbsp;1970, les observations d\u0026rsquo;ovnis ont connu une forte augmentation aux \u0026Eacute;tats-Unis, en particulier en Californie. Les gens avaient d\u0026eacute;velopp\u0026eacute; une v\u0026eacute;ritable obsession pour les rencontres d\u0026rsquo;extraterrestres et leurs comptes rendus. Avec ces photographies intens\u0026eacute;ment retouch\u0026eacute;es, Shaw fait un clin d\u0026rsquo;\u0026oelig;il \u0026agrave; la qualit\u0026eacute; souvent m\u0026eacute;diocre de la manipulation des images pr\u0026eacute;sent\u0026eacute;es comme des \u0026laquo;\u0026nbsp;preuves photographiques\u0026nbsp;\u0026raquo; dans les m\u0026eacute;dias populaires en vue de d\u0026eacute;montrer l\u0026rsquo;existence de vie extraterrestre. Shaw observe de quelle mani\u0026egrave;re, en temps d\u0026rsquo;incertitude et de m\u0026eacute;fiance \u0026agrave; l\u0026rsquo;\u0026eacute;gard de la politique, nous projetons nos peurs sur des ph\u0026eacute;nom\u0026egrave;nes inexpliqu\u0026eacute;s, tels que des observations de vie extraterrestre, des exp\u0026eacute;riences spirituelles ou des th\u0026eacute;ories complotistes. Dans Martian Portraits, qui fait \u0026eacute;galement partie de son projet de fin d\u0026rsquo;\u0026eacute;tudes, Shaw montre la transformation d\u0026rsquo;humains en extraterrestres reptiliens. L\u0026rsquo;id\u0026eacute;e, vieille de plus de cent ans, selon laquelle le monde serait dirig\u0026eacute; par des reptiles mal\u0026eacute;fiques a refait surface au cours des derni\u0026egrave;res d\u0026eacute;cennies, sous l\u0026rsquo;influence de th\u0026eacute;oriciens du complot tels que Zecharia Sitchin et David Vaughan Icke.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u0026laquo;\u0026nbsp;Les ann\u0026eacute;es\u0026nbsp;1970, lors desquelles j\u0026rsquo;ai commenc\u0026eacute; \u0026agrave; travailler, \u0026eacute;taient celles des films catastrophes et des \u0026ldquo;rencontres rapproch\u0026eacute;es\u0026rdquo;. Comme si les gens voulaient que la fin arrive parce que la r\u0026eacute;alit\u0026eacute; \u0026eacute;tait si ennuyeuse.\u0026nbsp;\u0026raquo;\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":5037,"name":"Jim Shaw","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}