Thoughts on Linda Zacks

The artist that I have looked at is Linda Zacks. It is not the illustration that I am so much interested in but I am really interested in her works with putting real pictures and altering them herself and not use a computer. Her pictures that she alters looks like she used a computer to alter them. There was two books that I liked from her collection. The first book I looked at was Walk the Streets of Havana. It was pretty cool to see the different pictures of Havana and what it looks like. My favorite page was the third and fourth page of the book. The picture of the cities buildings in the morning. The picture itself is beautiful but when she altered it a bit she made the picture look old school or its been stored for a long time and it is showing signs of wear and tear. The pictures she took were very recent but when she puts them all together and alters them they look like they are pictures from the 70's especially with the old cars. The cars make it seem that the pictures were from 30-40 years ago. 

Her other book that I looked at was Metal Worm. She had this grunge atmosphere in her books. Every page was dark and somewhat depressing. She put them together for a reason because it was for the viewers to try to solve what she is trying to say. As of right now I am trying to figure out what the message that she is trying to say. It seems like this is a depressed message.