{"id":1109,"date":"2025-09-05T19:47:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/reframingphotography\/content\/resources\/artists\/evan-baden\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T20:30:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T20:30:35","slug":"evan-baden","status":"publish","type":"content","link":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/resources\/artists\/evan-baden\/","title":{"rendered":"Evan Baden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Evan Baden<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/www.evanbaden.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anne Kelly, “Interview and Portfolios: Evan Baden,” Photo-Eye Blog, April 3, 2013<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/blog.photoeye.com\/2013\/04\/interview-and-portfolios-evan-baden.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evan Baden, Technically Intimate<\/em> at Fotovisura<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/www.fotovisura.com\/user\/ebaden\/view\/technically-intimate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evan Baden Interview, Visual Lab, October 31, 2012<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qM1gw-47yXI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Louise Bak, “Technology and Intimacy”, Toro Magazine, July 13, 2010<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/toromagazine.com\/sex\/sex-column\/1fb9101b-4fab-5f74-6d2e-16b1e734ee55<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evan Baden, <\/strong>A Convers\u00e3o de S\u00e3o Paulo<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil is a city in constant flux. The first Portuguese sailors turned the natives into instruments for their own economic purposes. The missionaries who followed converted those natives yet again, bringing Catholicism to the new world. Today, Brazil is in the midst of the traumatic evolution from a developing nation to an industrial and economic powerhouse. While this emergence has brought with it a dramatic rise of the middle class, it has been accompanied by an even more dramatic rise in income disparity. Popular culture is shifting as well, with American brands and symbols\u2013often seen as indicators of prosperity\u2013marking the young people that don them. The drive behind many of these changes is the movement away from Catholicism and towards one of the various types of Evangelism. <\/em>A Convers\u00e3o de S\u00e3o Paulo ties these conversions together\u2013from the colonial past to the political, religious, economic, and cultural present\u2013and serves as a foreshadowing of possibilities to come.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the making of<\/em> A Convers\u00e3o de S\u00e3o Paulo, young parishioners from the Evangelic church Igreja Agua da Vida\u2013 housed in an old theatre in S\u00e3o Paulo\u2013were invited to perform simplified versions of biblical stories. In addition to elements of biblical lore, symbols of prosperity, doom, and renewal were looped in to contextualize the relationship between church dogma and the contemporary changes occurring in S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Evan Baden<\/strong>,\u00a0Doubt.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Evan Baden<\/strong>,\u00a0Fire.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Evan Baden<\/strong>,\u00a0Kiss II.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Evan Baden<\/strong>,\u00a0Milk and Honey.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Evan Baden<\/strong>,\u00a0Paradise.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Evan Baden<\/strong>,\u00a0Secret.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Evan Baden<\/strong>,\u00a0The Baptist.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Evan Baden<\/strong>,\u00a0The Conversion.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Evan Baden<\/strong>,\u00a0The Education II.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Evan Baden<\/strong>,\u00a0The Meal.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Evan Baden, Under the Influence<\/em> (2012-present)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The world of American teen culture is filled with viewers. Teens are constantly inundated by imagery of iconic figures, elevated to an almost religious level. As a result of this constant bombardment, teens begin to shape their behavior to emulate what they see.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using some of the most iconic images, figures, and tropes of pop culture as a starting point, I enlist the help of high school aged people and ask them to step into the image and embody the celebrity. The image that we create together directly communicates with the images in pop culture that teens are so used to seeing. The images in <\/em>Under the Influence reinforce the stereotypes and tropes that are inherent in pop culture imagery.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By participating in the making of my images, the models are (if only for a moment) transformed into the very thing they admire and aspire to be; the very thing they have spent so much time looking at. Now, they too will be looked at. They perform for some unknown, imagined viewer. There is no concern for who that viewer is\u2013whether they are male or female, young or old\u2013only that they exist, and that they will be looking.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Evan Baden<\/strong>,\u00a0It’s All About Me. I Mean You. I Mean Me.<\/em>\u00a0(2012) 42×80″.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Evan Baden<\/strong>,\u00a0The Newest Reason To Love Your Country\u00a0<\/em>(2012)\u00a042×80″.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Evan Baden<\/strong>,\u00a0The Nasty Thrill\u2026\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0(2012) 42×75″.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Evan Baden<\/strong>,\u00a0Poppin’ Bottles<\/em>\u00a0 (2013)\u00a042×75″.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Evan Baden<\/strong>,\u00a0Being a\u00a0Generational\u00a0Role Model Comes with Certain Responsibilities<\/em>\u00a0 (2012)\u00a042×75″.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Evan Baden http:\/\/www.evanbaden.com\/ Anne Kelly, “Interview and Portfolios: Evan Baden,” Photo-Eye Blog, April 3, 2013 http:\/\/blog.photoeye.com\/2013\/04\/interview-and-portfolios-evan-baden.html Evan Baden, Technically Intimate at Fotovisura http:\/\/www.fotovisura.com\/user\/ebaden\/view\/technically-intimate Evan Baden Interview, Visual Lab, October 31, 2012 http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qM1gw-47yXI Louise Bak, “Technology and Intimacy”, Toro Magazine, July 13, 2010 http:\/\/toromagazine.com\/sex\/sex-column\/1fb9101b-4fab-5f74-6d2e-16b1e734ee55 Evan Baden, A Convers\u00e3o de S\u00e3o Paulo S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil is a city in constant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"parent":304,"menu_order":0,"template":"resource-artist","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"topic":[6,11,13,14],"class_list":["post-1109","content","type-content","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized","topic-documentary-style","topic-portraiture","topic-reproductive-processes","topic-series-sequence"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content\/1109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content\/1109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1730,"href":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content\/1109\/revisions\/1730"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}