Sandy Skoglund

Sandy Skoglund
Ger,ms Are Everywhere
1986

Sandy Skoglund is a photographer and installation artist  who was born in America in 1946. She studied at several different colleges but ultimately earned her degree at the University of Iowa and  received her Masters of Fine Art in 1972. Skoglund is most recognized for designing and creating a unique set. Her sets are complete with objects like furniture, plants, humans, animals and other various decor. She also uses a contrasting technique in which she focuses the attention of her subject with one distinctive color and blends everything else with another abstract color. Her sets take on average several months to create. Every detail is hand crafted and selected by her to give a realism yet surreal to her set. Once perfected she then  photographs it.Skoglund uses elements like shallow depth of field,texture and patterns. In "Germs Are Everywhere" she uses two similar shapes, rectangles and ovals. Notice the TV, the stand, the base of the lamp, the picture frames and the outlines of the lamp and light shade are rectangular. The chair, leaves, the germs, the actual shape of the light shade, and the women have a oval shape. This is one part of a series of photos that Skoglund creates. She often uses  real people in the surreal environments she creates.