Barbra Kruger-
Barbra Kruger was born in 1975 in New Jersey. She attended "syracuse university, the school of visual arts"Krugar's photographs are often layered with aggressive text that involves the viewer in the struggle for power and control that her captions speak to. In their trademark black letters against a slash of red background.
Her black-and-white images are collected from mainstream magazines that sell the very ideas she is disputing such as sexualising women to sell a product.
As well as appearing in museums and galleries worldwide, Kruger’s work has appeared on billboards, busses, posters, a public park, a train station platform in Strasbourg, France, and in other public commissions. She has taught at the california institute of art, the school of art in chicago and the university of california, berkley. 
some of her instantly recognizable slogans read “I shop therefore I am,” and “Your body is a battleground."
Much of her text questions the viewer about feminism, classicism, consumerism, and individual autonomy and desire.Kruger does this to challenge the stereotypical ways mass media influences society’s notions about gender roles, social relationships, and political issues.
'Your body is a battleground'
" Kruger created this to address and interpret heated political issues of the moment. Using a silkscreened frontal photograph of a model’s face, the artist gives the image additional meaning by dividing the large canvas it occupies into sections; from left to right, the bisected image reverses from positive to negative, and from top to bottom, the face is divided by the emblazoned slogan “Your body is a battleground.” Kruger critiques the objectified standard of symmetry that is applied to feminine beauty and perpetuated by media and advertising. The composition originally included more text and was designed as a poster for the massive pro-choice rally that took place on April 9, 1989, in Washington, D.C. "
Information was found on -
http://www.thebroad.org/art/barbara-kruger
http://www.barbarakruger.com/biography.shtml
http://www.barbarakruger.com/biography.shtml
well done a good research note, there is some good contextual information within your shoots, please be aware also that you need to be evaluating each of the images that you have posted... (annotations and denotations) I think in your case where image and text are linked express your opinion on what the text means in relation to the image.. (or vice versa).
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