How am I approaching my still life images?
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How am I approaching my Still Life images?
Similarly to my approach for my portraits, my still life images will be based around fashion imagery, producing styled, minimalistic images with a clean, colourful aesthetic.
I have chosen to shoot fashion accessorises which I plan to include in my portrait images also, providing a clear link between the two. I plan to reference images by Tyrone Lebon for Celine [1] and include a model in my still life images, cropped down to the subject, the product. This inclusion of a model creates a hint of context in what would otherwise be a totally decontextualised image.
(Lebon, T, SS15, For Celine)
Wolfgang Tillmans interpretation of authenticity within his photography is predominately centred around the authenticity of what is behind the camera, rather than in front of it. I really like this interpretation of being a photographer: I have a vision that I can see behind everything that goes towards it; the background that may not be big enough, the masking tape holding things together; But the viewer see’s only the final outcome, which is what I had in my head all along. Everything takes a lot of post production and manipulating the raw, but my intentions are genuine.
(Bright, S. (2011) Art photography now.)
My images are not observational, I plan to create a set; I have researched into Visual merchandising and set design and using a set to compliment my subject and including more in the frame.
After looking at House of Hackey’s modern take on traditional patterns, and looking at my own work, what appeared to be the polar opposite, I begun to see that infact, the two were almost exactly the same. This brought me to consider the incorporation of pattern into all my work, including my still life. [2] (William Morris x HOH AW15)
Bibliography
Bright, S. (2011) Art photography now. Rev edn. London: Thames & Hudson.
Lebon, T, SS15, For Celine
Morris, W together with House of Hackey AW15
Appendices
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
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