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Basically...Flickr is good and everything...but doesn't really give me the opportunity to write about my photos, or what they are about etc. Most photographers, artists, what ever they do prefer not to write or talk about what has inspired them to write certain lyrics etc...they prefer to keep it private it and leave it up to us to decifer the true meaning behind it. I can understand that, and to a degree I do that with some things such as poems or analogies. But with photos its a bit different. You can tell someone a long story about something, but they may not understand you. They can read words but can't always take the meaning from the page. With a photo, you can show someone a story. You can explain something to someone by showing them as well as telling them. Sometimes I don't want to tell anyone though. Sometimes it's just an outlet purely for me, to express what I feel, or at least try to. So...that is what the second blog is for..

Monday, 10 January 2011

Steven Meisel.

Month: January 2010
Models: Robyn & Sian
MU&W: Myself

This shoot was done nearly a year ago (woahh). In the style of an editorial Steven Meisel did for Vogue Italia, but no where near as good...the amount of time, money and effort gone into that shoot he did; well I can only imagine. Here's the link for some shots from his editorial... http://trendland.net/2008/12/23/vogue-patterns-by-steven-meisel/

A lot of people think that photography is a "doss" subject...which I guess it can be if you want it to be. But if you actually use it in such a way it produces work that actually has a meaning and a plot, then it can so much more.
Another thing I don't think people realise are the skills you acquire from it. Analysing, interpretating, evaluating and thinking of ways things can be improved are all skills. When I look at a photo shoot or an editorial, I don't just think "oh that looks nice" or "that's a good photo", I think what is the photographer or artistic director trying to show us? What is the theme? It's just like a fashion line...like Alexander McQueen's fashion line that was influenced by/his view on Darwin's theory of evolution and the origin of species. He didn't just create something weird because he felt like it.

So. Looking at Meisel's editorial, I came to the conclusion that from my point of view, that all the models had been done up with make-up etc so much, they resembled dolls in a way. Their poses (that look as if they have been moved at the joint by someone, just like they would with a doll) facial expressions, and almost artificial appearance combined with the endless concoction of patterns and images provided me with this conclusion.

I wanted to create my own take on Meisel's editorial, keeping the aim of the shoot as "producing images that resemble human dolls with set colour schemes with varying patterns". The top photo is one of my favourites from the shoot, as the immaculate make-up, porcelain like skin and glassy eyes that look alive...yet at the same time dead as they are not focusing on anything, all produce what I feel is a human doll. (I have this shot printed off about A2 size and love it).
Here are some more shots...
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