Juergen teller inspired photos

These are some of my  Juergen teller inspired photographs that I've taken.

'Hide and Seek'

 'Brushing his teeth'

 

'Sleepyheads'

National Portrait Gallery : Man Ray Exhibition

Man ray Portraits

This exhibition was a display of man rays photography work and his journey in his career from and 1916 and 1968 in both America and Paris. There wasn't just photographs in this exhibition it also includes some photograms but my most favourite piece of all is the one directly below in which I have analysed.

I chose this piece to analyse because its the one that fits into my sub-theme the most. The piece is called 'Le Violon d’Ingres'. To create this piece he first took a normal photograph of this woman from the back he then manually painted in a f-hole onto her back to make her resemble a stringed musical instrument. After doing this he re-photographed the picture to create a final piece.

The meaning behind the piece is actually a pun Man ray created this piece to show the similarities  

between the shape of a woman' s body to the violin. Ingres's well-known passion for the violin created the colloquialism in French 'Le Violon d’Ingres' which means hobby in french.

The reason i chose this piece to analyse is because i think it links into my chosen pathway the most, my chosen pathway being hidden identity. The way the figure is placed from the back allows the audience to pull out certain aspects of information and try to come to a conclusion of what they believe this piece symbolises and who this figure is.

This picture looks like it has been set in a bedroom and the figure is sitting on a bed, The way the head is turned could suggest wealth, as most wealthy people tend to pose in a way that shows they are better than everyone else she does this with her head positioning. Although i said that this may be set in a bedroom the background is black so this suggest a black area in which this was taken.

Juergen Teller Woo!

Juergen Teller born in 1964 in Erlangen, Germany is an artist and fashion photographer.The exhibition was held in the ICA gallery. The exhibition was a journey through his landmark fashion and commercial photography from the 90s he had images of celebrities such as Lily Cole, Kurt Cobain and Vivienne Westwood, as well as some landscapes and family portraits.

Overall i didn't fully enjoy his work I personally thought most of his pictures excluding the nudes were quite simple it didn't really seem like a great amount of time and effort was spent on producing them. Also a few of his pieces appeared slightly pixualated and it was clear that this wasn't part of the overall look, I don't think he was really a photographer that went out and planned shots excluding the nudes most of his pictures were quite candid. 

The photograph is called motor head ed  i think this links into the t-shirt the baby is wearing. the baby is the pieces subject matter he looks slightly frightened in his face and only clothed in a blue babygro with the words motor bean written on them. The meaning of the piece is open to interuptation i cant really see a specific meaning to it it could he conveying fear or maybe innocence. The picture could convey a life issue such as the artists social life which would be his family. The photography is completely realistic it seems to be quite candid as well as I'm sure he didn't  ask this baby to pose for him.The photograph links to the theme covert and obscurced because this is a side of a photographers life we hardly see its the personal side of his Life.the photograph has taken up all of the frame of the picture the frame is quite narrow as the artist probably wanted to make the main focus the image, the image is in colour but I appears slightly blurry like he was using a bad quality camera maybe just a mobile phone, I think the photographer has used a focus technique because you can really see the inside of the babies eyes maybe the slightly blurred picture was intentional for this feature
the characters facial expressions capture the mood of the baby it's not clear weather he is upset scared or about to cry but it's certainly not a cheerful mood.
When I first saw this photo it appealed to me straight away because it was placed in this room with pictures containing nudity and randomness and the baby picture just kinda screamed out normality. There are quote calm colours used in this piece such as yellow and white in some respect they could be seen as baby colours pure and innocent. 

My Digital ideas

This is a Matt Wisniewski inspired print, to create this effect i first took a normal picture of my brother and then inserted a wave picture on top of his face and played around with the opacity so that some of his facial features were present but the rest were obscured.

This picture was a voyeuristic picture that i took when i was on the train the person photographed had no idea that i was taking a picture of him which makes it quite covert. To get this theme on the picture afterwards i edited it on photoshop 

These pictures were taken at Westminster , they are also voyeuristic but i developed a technique with it i pretended to take pictures of the big ben while also getting people in swell. The first picture was taken on my mobile of people exiting the tube station i took it because the identity of these people is anonymous and it links in nicely to the them obscured.