Flaws and Perfections Harvey Lloyd Hind-pitcher 0108
Contents Page
1. statment of intent 2. Mind Map 3. Photographers Analysis 4. Photogrpahers Interpretations 5. Photo Shoots 5. So Far 6. Reshoots 7. Techniques 8. Possible ideas 9. Evaluation
Statement of intent What is your chosen theme and why have you chosen to study this? I have chosen to study "Flaws" and "Perfection". When looking at the two subjects I thought, yes, there is something that I can work with. What research do you intend to carry out based on this theme? Throughout the period of studying these themes I will study various artists such as Edward Steichen , Mihaela Noroc and Hiroshi Sugimoto. What photo shoots do you intend to complete during this project to help explore the topic chosen? For my photo shoots I want to complete ones based on people, places and relationships. What techniques with the camera, darkroom and Photoshop would you like to use to help develop the theme? Most of my editing will be done through Photoshop and my final piece will be mostly Photoshop but with manual editing to create a unusual layout What do you hope to learn more about in doing this project? I hope to learn more about using contrasting ideas to create unique visual effects What do you see the final format as being? I see my final piece being a set of photos that each have many different meanings yet still all point is the same direction of what I want the viewer to see.
FLAWS NOUN 1. a feature that mars the perfection of something; defect; fault: beauty without flaw; the flaws in our plan. 2. a defect impairing legal soundness or validity. 3. a crack, break, breach, or rent. verb (used with object) 4. to produce a flaw in. verb (used without object) 5. to contract a flaw; become cracked or defective. FLAWS
PERFECTIONS IDEALS NOUN 1. a conception of something in its perfection. 2. a standard of perfection or excellence. 3. a person or thing conceived as embodying such a conception or conforming to such a standard, and taken as a model for imitation: Thomas Jefferson was his ideal. 4. an ultimate object or aim of endeavor, especially one of high or noble character: He refuses to compromise any of his ideals.
PERFECTIONS NOUN 1. the state or quality of being or becoming perfect. 2. the highest degree of proficiency, skill, or excellence, as in some art. 3. a perfect embodiment or example of something. 4. a quality, trait, or feature of the highest degree of excellence. 5. the highest or most nearly perfect degree of a quality or trait. 6. the act or fact of perfecting. IDEALS COMPROMISE NOUN 1. a settlement of differences by mutual concessions; an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims, principles, etc., by reciprocal modification of demands. 2. the result of such a settlement. 3. something intermediate between different things: The split-level is a compromise between a ranch house and a multistoried house.
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MIND MAP
Atlas of Beauty
PHOTOGRAPHERS RESEARCH SEXY BARBIE
TYLER SHIELDS In Tyler shields work he covers the idea of how women feel and think they should look, he covers the common problems that magazines and models produce to make girls and women do different things to make them like the pictures. In the two picture on the left we see Barbie dolls, he has used the dolls to represent the modern day “perfect person.” The top left photo is a close up on the upper body of the doll with red pen (to represent blood) coming out of her nose and her top ruined with the left side dropped, he has tried to connote that even a perfect girl can do horrible imperfect things. In the photos on the right, Shields has looked at a common problem that society hide away from, self harming. The top right photo we see has the writing “FIX ME“ on a ladies forehead, she also has dotted lines all over her face as if to have plastic surgery in order to cure, what she sees as, her imperfections so that she can look beautiful.
FIX ME
Adam Amengual In amenguals work he has taken photographs of people from different parts of society and gets and gets them to show “their true self ” while he is taking the photos. These four photos have been taken from his piece “HOMIES” where he has taken photographs of people who for large parts of their lives have been in gangs or incarceration. Amengual has portrayed these people as signs of hope with parts of the past stuck with them, he has visually expressed and lighted them well in order for the audience to look at the photographs and see nice ordinary people rather than gang members that they should be scared of.
Aleksandra Domanovic Domanović’s series of paper-stack sculptures act as printable monuments to the recently abolished .yu virtual domain, the Internet identification string of former Yugoslavia that dissolved in 2010 - seven years after the Republic’s dissolution. This ongoing series is comprised of A4 and A3 sheets of paper piled into steles. By printing the sheets full-bleed on the margins only, an image is formed on the lateral sides of the stack through the accumulation of thousands of sheets piled up. In the “paper-stacks”, the query of monumentality is as important as the visualisation of content sourced from the internet: they exist in two states, a virtual one (and it’s physical manifestation. Their subjects, varying from images of football hooligans to the ruins of the former Hotel Marina Lucica situated on the Croatian coast, belong to the symbolic iconography of the new states that emerged after Yugoslavia was dissolved. ‘Untitled’ comprises three stacks of A4 paper, their margins printed to reveal cropped, colour images: a violent crowd at a football match between Serbia’s two most popular teams. Sourced from Flickr, the outlines of the images have been photoshopped to trace the billowing smoke from the hooligans’ flare guns. This sculpture, as if materializing from this vaporous digital image, serves as an apt monument to Yugoslavia’s recently defunct political and viral domains.
Gillian Wearing English photographer and video artist. Wearing has described her working method as ‘editing life’. By using photography and video to record the confessions of ordinary people, her work explores the disparities between public and private life, between individual and collective experience. igns that Say What You Want Them to Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You to Say, was mad by her approaching people on London streets, asking them to write something on a card and then photographing them as they displayed it. Private lives were given a sudden and revealingly painful exposure: a policeman holds a card reading “Help!” I like her work because it’s not just “you stand here and look like this” it real emotions and how people feel there and then without much thought process to it.
In these photos I have interpreted Tyler shields piece “sexy Barbie.� I liked his piece due to fact that it covers the thought process that almost everyone talks about. People look at girls out in a night club or with alcohol and don’t say anything but still talk about it after to friends and family about how disgusting it is. I have decided to carry on his idea of using a Barbie doll to portray the modern young woman, however I wanted to connote that even the perfect women still want to cut into their face to be perfect through plastic surgery. In the photos I have taken, drawn the lines on the most common areas that people want changed about their face through plastic surgery. My personal favourite photo is the top photo on the other page because you can see that nothing is wrong visually about her but she cant see it, so the lines are still there for what she wants to be fixed.
In these photos I have interpreted Gillian Wearing’s “I’m desperate”. I have decided to take the idea of taking pictures of people how they feel generally and simplified it. I asked the people in my images to take a feeling that they have felt in the last couple of day that they didn’t tell anyone. Inés on the right was upset about how she looks and doesn’t listen when people tell her that she’s good looking or what she is wearing is nice so she has wrote down that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” meaning that which one person finds beautiful or admirable may not appeal to another, so although a lot of people find her attractive she doesn’t see it and she is scared to tell people. Blossom on the left has said “i’m so F****** stressed” the story behind this photo is that she doesn’t like to tell people that she’s stressed or worrying about different things, in this case she was worried about the amount of work she has to do and to look good every day. My favourite photo is the bottom photo, this is Alex, he is the happiest person I have ever met, so I had to see what he had been feeling and as expected he came up with “I’m not feeling average” with a shark and a palm tree, he is the one person that will just accept any circumstance and just not care about anything.
SO FAR
So far i have looked at various artists and tried to explore many different ideas from Gillian Wearings work with people through to Tyler Shields work with Barbie Dolls. These three photos are my personal favourites from my interpretations of Gillian Wearings work. I think they challange what people first percieve about the photos and also effect peoples emotional response to how they feel after viewing the photo.
RESHOOTS
In this set of photos i have created a reshoot based on my orginial interpretations of Tyler Shields work “Sexy Barbie.� In my original images I had just draw lines on to Barbies face as if she was to have plastic surgery on her face. In these photos i have carved lines and holes into her face, to look as if she has tired to perform the surgery herself. I have also drawn red lines from her upper chest going up into the right side of her neck. I did this to connote she is self harming due to the state in which her face is in now.
TECHNIQUES CROPPING
What does cropping do to the photograph? which is my favourite effect
TECHNIQUES ROTATION
Rotating the image in these photos adds another look to each image, especially when adding the different rotations to make one image. my favourite image is the one on the left hand side because although all four sections are the same image, when you look at it (more so on the bottom two) each on looks like it is its own image.
POSSIBLE IDEAS
EVALUATION
For my final piece I have placed 18 separate photos on to a black board which add up to make one big photo of a Barbie doll with plastic surgery lines all over her face, this is to connote that even the perfect and most beautiful people in the world still don’t believe they are. With the black board I have wrote, in white pen, many different sentences and words that I have gone out and asked people what they think perfection is and to take a quote that describes how they have felt in the last week. I did this to try and show what the general public actually think on daily basis rather than what everyone think poeple are thinking because of how they look For my exam I pushed forward the ideas of flaws and perfection and dropped ideals and compromises because the first two went hand in hand I think my work flows well with the topic of flaws and perfections as it explores the idea of what the female community struggle with on a day to day basis Looking at my final piece I could take it further adding more within each individual picture. My work is very closely linked with work done by Tyler Shields with “Sexy Barbie” and Gillian Wearing with “Signs that Say What You Want Them To Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You To Say “by interpreting their images to create my own.
I now understand that by using signs and facial expressions you can completely change what someone sees when they look at an image.