File:Graham Budgett The ZooLogical Garden 1987.jpg

Photomontage by Graham Budgett, The [Zoo] Logical Garden ("Berlin bei Nacht" series, (1987). The image illustrates a key early period and body of work in Graham Budgett's career, when he first gained recognition in the late 1980s for pre-digital photomontages created in the U.S. and Berlin, including the "Berlin bei Nacht" series. This work drew on advertising aesthetics and appropriated sources, and involved blending images in-camera with live models, props and sculpture, text and his own photographs. This work and related works were publicly exhibited in prominent venues, discussed widely in international art and daily press publications, and collected by major institutions.

Artist Graham Budgett. Copyright held by the artist.

Graham Budgett

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key early period and body of work in Graham Budgett's career: his early pre-digital photomontages, including the "Berlin bei Nacht" series, through which he first gained recognition in the late 1980s. Critics described these works as "amalgamations of image and performance in front of the camera"; they combined the gloss and fantasy of advertising aesthetics and appropriated sources, with Budgett's in-camera blending of his own images of live models, props and sculpture, text, and recognizable locations, themes and scenarios, which often engaged in sociopolitical critique of political myths. Because the article is about an artist and his work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to visualize a key phase in his art, which brought early recognition from art journals, daily press publications, and institutions. Budgett's work of this type and this work in particular is discussed in the article and by prominent critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Graham Budgett, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.