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Artist Research:
Sophie Calle
She is known for followings strangers to investigate their private lives. Her work shows vulnerability, identity and intimacy. Calle transforms her daily life with a series of performances, which is usually in a combination of texts and photographs.
She takes elements from her own life into public places, creating a personal narrative where she is the author and character.
The Shadow consisted of Calle being followed by a private detective. Calle wanted to provide photographic evidence of herself to show her own existence. Calle proceeded to lead the detective around parts of Paris that were particularly important for her, thereby reversing the expected position of the observed subject. Aware of her follower, she also wrote about in frequent journal entries throughout the day.
She discovered that observing the behaviour and actions of these strangers provided information with which to construct their identities. These sought to construct identities by offering documentary proof' in the form of photographs. Her work was seen to have roots in the tradition of conceptual art because the emphasis was on the artistic idea rather than the finished object.
Artist research:
Cindy Sherman
Cindy sherman was a self portrait photographer and film director. She was first interested in painting , however then began to study photography at university. Most of her work shows her in the photograph, however they are not seen as a self portrait.
Sherman has raised challenging and important questions about the role and representation of woman in society.
After her graduation in 1976, Sherman moved to New York and began taking photographs of herself known as Untitled film stills. In these photographs she played the role of B film actresses. It shows her playing the role of somebody else where she dressed up in different clothes , hats and wigs. She plays a character, not an actual person.
She would use dolls and prosthetics and use their body parts and scenes which involve things such as mould and vomit.
Her intentions for this series of work to for the images to look scary and deformed.
Francesca Woodman
Woodman started taking photographs as a young teenager before committing suicide at the age of 22. A career of around five years much of her photographs were taken as a student. She works in black and white and took self portraits or depicted other women often without clothes. Woodman experimented with slow shutter speeds on the camera, which captured movement in her photographs, creating a blurred effect..
Woodman explores the human body, helping her to gain her own knowledge about the female body. I found this piece of work particularly interesting because of he angle it was taken at from above, the lighting is also highlights the body from the background.
Her body appeared and disappeared behind objects in this case a bath. You can see that in this image her hair is the only thing to suggest that it is her in the bath. Her hair appears to be blurred, showing only a small amount of herself suggests that she attempts to escape from the frame of work.
She photographed herself in a variety of different spaces and used backgrounds which showed a sense of time such as peeling walls or layered surfaces. She camouflaged herself against these walls or added movement to her photographs creating a blurred effect. She liked to work in old buildings where it showed a sense of time. She also dressed in much older clothes making the photographs seem older.
Jewellery
Photos
Experiment with different focusing on the camera Use a torch and place it in different places to light the objects differently
Trial 1
This was my first attempt of taking a photograph which represents Myself I created tags using the computer where I wrote words which describe myself , life experiences that have made me the person I am today I felt that the lighting was quite dull in this image and I needed some objects to bring out my personality more in the photograph.
Trial 2
In my second attempt to show a self portrait was this image, where I added some objects in the photograph in an attempt to bring out more of my personality in the photograph. I used just one tag this time, where I used several words to describe myself. However I felt that this was an unsuccessful image as you cannot see clearly what the smaller words say and I also felt that more objects needed to be added in the background so there are not areas in the photograph which are bare.
Final Photograph
This is my final image, after experimenting in different ways with tags and objects I added more objects to the image and also tags which are clear and easy to read. I originally took this image in black and white but after taking some photographs in colour I felt that the colour photograph was stronger as each detail is easier to see and it shows clearly all of the elements in the photograph.
Critical Appraisal
Things to consider if I were to redo this project: Research Experimenting with taking more colour photographs Showing a background in my photographs such as my bedroom