Little Red In The Hood

For this little test shoot we got in little groups to come up with a tableaux. Our group came up with the idea of fairy tails with a twist. We thought of doing a jack in the bean stork, But instead of magic beans we could have had magic mushrooms. The idea that we settled on in the end was a twist on Little Red RidingHood. Instead of the innocent little red riding hood with a basket of muffins. We decided to fill reds basket with alcohol.Also the axe man that is meant to look out for red is sneaking up behind to kill her.

We wanted to make the lighting really moody. To achieve this we balanced the day light with flash heads that we took out. We then used a faster shutter speed to make the background darker. this made a really nice moody light.

Jemima Stehli (strip)

Jemima Stehli is a British photographer who did aself-portrait series in 2000. The series was called strip. Stehli got various art critics to come to her studio for a shoot. She sat the male critics down in a chair and began to strip in front of them. Stehli positioned herself to the right of the shot facing the subject with her back to the camera. She then gave the art critics the shutter release for the camera. As Stehli began to strip the art critics would squeeze the shutter release and take a photograph at any time they wanted.

This self portrait is about the man reaction to the strip that Stehli is performing. In some of the shots the man looks quite shy and awkward. However in others the man looks like the alpha male with his legs spread apart looking strait at Stehli as she strips.

 

Self-Portrait

A self-portrait is a portrait of your self. It can be a simple mug shot of the face or it can be a bit more complex, for example like the work of Alexa Wright.

The self-portrait can be about the identity of the person. It can tern the personal into the political. Also it concerns friendship and relationships using your face or bobby to express your feelings.

 

Thomas Ruff

Thomas Ruff is a contemporary German photographer who is most famous for his portraits. Ruff studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (1977-1985). This was the academy of Düsseldorf, Germany. When i was looking at Ruffs work i came across the book ‘Thomas Ruff Andere Portraits + 3D’ this was a book on the sea rise of portraits that Ruff had done. The book was really interesting. One of the things that Ruff says is ‘If things are the way that they are then why should I tray to make them different’.

Ruff also comments on the renaissance and says that in that time portraits were a sign of social status. The props, jewellery, clothes and objects in the paintings were meant to illustrate the persons background. What Ruff is saying is that he didn’t want people to do this with his work. Ruff says that he thinks it is outrages the way that people treat his portraits. Ruff didn’t want people to think about the persons background in the photograph. He just wanted the viewer to look at the  photographs.

There is a 3D aspect to this book. Ruff has combined two faces together in one. the effect of this gives it a strange look. Ruff wanted to do this because he said that it was like combining to heads together. Ruff said that is was interesting because this could not be done in real life.

Tableaux

Tableaux is a photograph or painting that requires more than one participant to create or reenact a scene. The Oxford English Dictionary defines Tableaux as ‘a picture; a picturesque or graphic description.

Still Life

Still life is a photograph, painting or drawing of an inanimate object or arrangement of objects. An example of this would be John Blakemore and his studies of tulips. The term Still Life comes from the Dutch ‘stilleven’ witch became current from about 1650 as a collective name for this genre of art.

Portraiture

portraits are works of art that record the likens of a person or an animal. Taken with a camera or painted a portrait is usually of one specific individual. The portraits back in the renaissance focused less no the feachers of the person, and more on what was in the painting with them. Objects of value to the subject would quite often be painted in to the portrait to show the viewer the social status of the person in the portrait. On reflection portraiture at that time was a means of demonstrating your wealth and connections with social hierarchy. Nowadays we just tend to use portraits as mug shots for passports or for social media sites as profile pictures with i think is quite sad really.