Martha Rosler Critique

While I was looking through the different photographers we had to choose from, I was most interested in the work of Martha Rosler. The reason why, is because she obviously uses some sort of photo manipulation to add drama to her photos. There are a series of photos, like the one above, that show some sort of glamorous life-style, but when you look closer at the background some terrible thing is happening, like in this photograph, the woman looks to be wealthy and going about her daily routine, while behind her, there is a  fire, or explosion happening.

I think where she was going with this is that people tend to look over the horrible things going on in the world if the horrible thing doesn't affect them directly, like the woman in the photograph, her back is turned to the tragedy outside her window.