Review：Phantom Limb series

 

This series were designed by the American woman artist Lynn Hershman Lesson in 1986—87 and is titled Phantom Limb series.The designer used technology of gelation silver prints and format of photo collage.In these series ，you can see the woman's body and mechine.She put the body of a woman and a part of electronic machine assembly, using machines instead of women, and these works are static. The Phantom Limb Photographs is a series of black-and-white photographs, where Hershman combines female bodies with different technical features like cameras or camera lenses. ' Thses works merge human bodies with technological cyborgian attributes , pointing out our reliance on electronics and media, and how it invades our physical and psychological collective selves' (Lynn Hershman) Perhaps the designer wants to present a pathological effect to interpret the phenomenon, which is very subjective.  These works merge human bodies with technological cyborgian attributes, pointing out our reliance on electronics and media . In my opinion, I think this series is very powerful, very good to the audience to express her meaning. Personaly she chose a good theme and summed up the contemporary social issues to remind and warn people . It is very important!

Overall，for me，this series is really cool！Hershman used mechine to replace human'body .In my opinion，it means today's people are over reliance on technology to do a lot of things, their body will begin to degenerate.As a designer or artist，You have an obligation to discover and reflect some of the problems that some people can't see.