Critique of Katie Leeper

I am critiquing Katie Leeper's appropriation project. Throughout this project, Katie chose to appropriate old-time high school athletes into modern day sport landscapes. By doing this, she appropriated the athletes in a desaturated way, and had the landscapes in full saturation. This was a smart choice to do for this project because it reassures the viewer that the athletes are not from the same generation as the landscape. Within her pictures, she consistently portrayed her theme, which is people holding on to the best times in their lives, including sports and high school. In her first picture of her presentation, she appropriated two track stars in two lanes of the track. This placement of the people in this photo was smart and I like how the numbers on the track and their shirts line up diagonally. While this photo is still relative to the theme and nicely appropriated, I think the weakest photo in her project was the swimmer diving into her lane. Katie's last photo on the football field was definitely her strongest photo of the three. She appropriated football players and cheerleaders and got the whole atmosphere and feel to high-school football games. Her photos all look like memories and good times and I like how that relates to her idea. Her two hand-appropriated images involve baseball and crew. These two photos have a different, scrap-book type feel since they are by hand. One could see these images in an old year book or old photo album. Her appropriation was all done extremely well and her photos all have the same feel, which is good when expressing an idea. Overall, it was a really successful project and all of her work was done well.