:REWORK_RESEARCH [jason salavon]:

One of Jason Salavon's work stuck out to me in particular in relation to reworking. The work is entitled 'Every Playboy Centerfold, The Decades' which was completed by Salavon in 2002.

The description found on www.salavon.com goes like this...

From a broader series begun in 1997, the photographs in this suite are the result of mean averaging every Playboy centerfold foldout for the four decades beginning Jan. 1960 through Dec. 1999. This tracks, en masse, the evolution of this form of portraiture.

Basically Salavon has created a collage of each playboy centerfold over a decade to create a vague impression of female form.

Examples are below...


The 1960s (image taken from www.salavon.com)


The 1970s (image taken from www.salavon.com)


The 1980s (image taken from www.salavon.com)


The 1990s (image taken from www.salavon.com)

I thought this was really nice because although all the source material he used is not his own he has interpreted it creatively to produce something with a very different intent.