Thursday, January 31, 2013
Imogen Wallis-Mayer Task #1
I was inspired by Thomas Struth's Family Portrait photographs. After reading about his process there was one thing that he said that captured my interest, "When you have a person they
change all the time – with them there’s not one single second that’s the same
as the next.". I choose to take this thought and explore the opposite, an inanimate object, in which every moment can be the same as the last. I choose to arrange my objects, headless barbies, to make them appear as if they were posing for a family portrait.
** I have uploaded four images because I don't know what one I like the best, if you guys could comment on which one you like the best it would be very useful! (Also when looking at the colour differences look at the details in the bodies because it effects the details a lot!)
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I really like your approach to this task. Great concept and well constructed! The pink one is standing out to me the most and the purple is my least favourite. But does it have to be coloured? I feel like maybe by having them at there natural state it makes them more of an inanimate object. By using colour there is more of a focus on them. Not sure though bc I don't know how it originally looked.
ReplyDelete-Evan Hutchinson
cool! I like the purple best
ReplyDelete-Heather Cummings
I'm with Evan... What do they look like in their natural colour? Though of the three, the purple one is my favourite.
ReplyDelete- Taylor Thornley
Pink and blue are often (and unfortunately) associated with gender, so I would choose the purple!
ReplyDelete-Alex DeMelo
Wow, such a different look when you don't add the colour. I really like the first one; very mundane and plain like Thomas Struth's family portraits can often look like.
ReplyDelete-Evan Hutchinson
I think purple is the best as well, although the greyscale is very interesting as well! I find purple attracts my eye without distracting it too much (as the pink does) or having the figures becoming lost in shadows (the way the blue is doing).
ReplyDelete-Erin Whittier
I agree with Evan, if you can't decide which colour I don't think you can go wrong with grey because its neutral with less of a bias view compared to the coloured ones.
ReplyDeleteI like blue the blue one though because its my favourite colour :)
- Anthony Bui
I personally think grey looks better. The color ones are too contrasty. Overall great idea.
ReplyDelete-Amir Farokhpour
I like the grey ones the best as well!
ReplyDelete-Melissa Bessie
The grey one is my favourite. All the other colours seem to vivid and dark and take away from what you're trying to capture!
ReplyDelete- Nicole Haynes
The pink is my favourite. The contrast is what catches your eye, I like that. I think the grayscale would be more compelling if the figures were a bit darker.
ReplyDelete-Alexa Phillips
I remember you showing me in class and how you were so undecided on which colour to chose for the final! I told you at the time that I felt the blue one stood out the most. However, things have changed. I truly believe the grey is the best. I find there to be so much substance to its neutral and mundane appeal. When looking at Thomas Struth's Family portraits, they are just that... Neutral and somber. If you're taking this assignment to work with an element of Struth's I think the grey one works the best in terms of his style. If you were to bump up a little bit of contract and get more definition on the contours of the doll parts i think that would benefit the image a lot more. Amazing job!
ReplyDeleteTotally forgot to post my name in the last comment ^^^^^ - Diana Edelman :)
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