portrait transformation
Rankin: Destroy
The lesson objective was to destroy a famous person’s portrait photo to show their personality.
John Rankin Waddell who was born in Glasgowin 1966 and is an English fashion and portrait photographer. He grew up in Hertfordshire and while studying at Brighton Polytechnic, he realized that his interest lies in photography. So, he joined the Barnfield College, Luton, United Kingdom and later went to London College of Printing. Meanwhile, Rankin met Jefferson Hack and once they graduated, together they started a magazine titled Dazed and Confused
Rankins destroy task is where Rankin would take portraits of famous people and have them destroy them to express their personality.
Destroying Donald Trump's face
This is Donald Trump. He is famous for having strong and controversial politic ideas, he is also known for being America’s current president. I associate strong opinions with him.
To the image I blocked out his eyes to show that he is a hard headed person and is not willing to change his views. I also added two tear drops to represent the pain he has caused to the people who can no longer go to live in America. I have blocked his mouth to show that he does say big lies in order to win the presidential election.
To the image I blocked out his eyes to show that he is a hard headed person and is not willing to change his views. I also added two tear drops to represent the pain he has caused to the people who can no longer go to live in America. I have blocked his mouth to show that he does say big lies in order to win the presidential election.
Now I had a go with my own face. This was the portrait before being destroyed.
The whole purpose of the destroy task is to express your personality through cutting, destroying, folding or drawing onto your self-portrait. I did mine by cutting up pieces of my face and sticking them on in slightly uncoordinated places. I cut up some extra eyes from my other self-portrait and stuck them on underneath mine. This was probably the most significant change I made to the portrait. The extra pair of eyes were supposed to symbolize that I have an open mind about different opinions and I accept different beliefs and ways of life. This is opposite of when you block someone’s eyes in a picture because that can symbolize stubbornness and close mindedness.
Double exposure
Christoffer Relander
We looked at some work from Christoffer Relander- we immitated his work.
Christoffer Relander creates surreal images he does this by blending two pictures together, usually a face and a natural background although there are exceptions, he also uses urban backgrounds sometimes. He wanted us to consider the relationship between man and nature by litteraly blending the two. Relander is not considering any specific individual political views in this piece of work. By keeping the identities of the models anonymous, it allows the viewer to imagine the face of the model. This is interesting as it is something different. Relander has multiple exposure in creating this work. This creates a blending effect. This helps to support Relander’s point about notshowing an identity.
Christoffer Relander was born in Finland December 1986 and grew up in the countryside of Ekenäs. Relander's interest in art started at an early age, but it was not until he served the Finnish Marines between 2008-2009 that he got interested in photography.
We looked at some work from Christoffer Relander- we immitated his work.
Christoffer Relander creates surreal images he does this by blending two pictures together, usually a face and a natural background although there are exceptions, he also uses urban backgrounds sometimes. He wanted us to consider the relationship between man and nature by litteraly blending the two. Relander is not considering any specific individual political views in this piece of work. By keeping the identities of the models anonymous, it allows the viewer to imagine the face of the model. This is interesting as it is something different. Relander has multiple exposure in creating this work. This creates a blending effect. This helps to support Relander’s point about notshowing an identity.
Christoffer Relander was born in Finland December 1986 and grew up in the countryside of Ekenäs. Relander's interest in art started at an early age, but it was not until he served the Finnish Marines between 2008-2009 that he got interested in photography.
Jasper James
Jasper James creates surreal images. He also does this by blending two pictures together. He wanted us to consider the relationship between man and the city. James is considering the fact that the city is dehumanizing the city. This is shown by having lots of houses, flats and crowded areas in the background. By keeping the identities of the models anonymous, it allows the viewer to develop their own opinion of who the people are and what they look like. James has used crowded backrounds for his photos. This creates a crowded and claustrophobic effect. This helps to support James’ point about overcrowding.
The lesson objective was to blend two images together.
This consists of a background, natural or urban, and an upper body photo of a person, you then blend the two images together.
This consists of a background, natural or urban, and an upper body photo of a person, you then blend the two images together.
My first attempt made me realize that the two pictures were not blended properly. This is because my model had too much of a background.
First I got a background, then I got a head shot of my friend. I had to delete the background to then lower the opacity of the picture to make it see-through. This attempt did not go so well.
WWW: both the photos were good photos.
EBI: my portrait background was too dark.
EBI: my portrait background was too dark.
This was my second attempt.
WWW: they are both good pictures with an interesting background. I blended the two pictures well.
EBI: less grey space.
EBI: less grey space.
Herbert Bayer.
Herbert Bayer, ‘Lonely Metropolitan’, 1932
The photographer intended to show the feeling of claustrophobia. He did this by taking a picture of the windows, which shows how close they were living. Bayer showed the cramped living conditions, people were living literally on top of each other. The hands could represent the detachment that people feel from the city, it could represent how tiny one feels after moving into a big industrial city. The hands and the eyes on top of them are from different people highlighting that this is a mutual feeling for the city. Bayer had recently moved to the city and the move came along with feelings such as loneliness and isolation.
Bayer is considering the surreal movement (1922- 1941). He’s aims were to represent the subconscious mind, the part of the mind that a person doesn’t have control over, this is the part which we do not logically think with. Surrealists brought together images that were realistic but presented an unreal situation.
Bayer had trained in the Bauhaus a school of art that had a vision of how Art and design could improve society. Bayer was aware of the political situation in Germany at that time, Hitler has become Chancellor of the coalition government where the Nazi’s have a third of the seats.
Bayer is considering the surreal movement (1922- 1941). He’s aims were to represent the subconscious mind, the part of the mind that a person doesn’t have control over, this is the part which we do not logically think with. Surrealists brought together images that were realistic but presented an unreal situation.
Bayer had trained in the Bauhaus a school of art that had a vision of how Art and design could improve society. Bayer was aware of the political situation in Germany at that time, Hitler has become Chancellor of the coalition government where the Nazi’s have a third of the seats.
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Gordon Magnin
Gordon Magnin creates surreal images. He does this by copying and rotating a key piece of the portrait, he does this quite a few times. He usually uses geometric shapes. He wanted us to stop, look and think when we see a piece of his art. He does this by confusing the person looking at his artwork so one has to stop and think when looking at his work. Gordon Magnin is considering that we are ‘passively categorize[ing]’ everyday things this makes his work so different. This is shown by drawing shapes across people’s faces to distort the image. Magnin wanted to make a comment on how different his work is. Gordon Magnin has used geometric shapes to this work,. This creates a distorted, surreal and peculiar effect. The distortion of key features of the face helps to support Magnin’s point about not wanting his work to look real, but instead he wanted to ‘create something that is outside of our normal existence’.
my tries
second attempt.