portrait transformations artist research
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1.2 Portraiture:Transformations
Responding to artists
Arnulf Rainer
Mila Preslova Man Ray David Hockney
Laszlo Moholgy-Nagy
Annette Messager
Chuck CloseIrving Penn
Erwin Wurm
Francesca Woodman Richard Avedon
El Lissitzky
General Images for Inspiration SOME INITIAL IDEAS
• Make a Zoetrope, but use black & white/digital portrait photos where the facial expressions change. Consider it as an animation. Look at the work of Eduardo Muybridge
• Photograph someone through a series of textured glass windows focusing on distortion
• Distort the face by playing with reflections, shadows and mirrors to create an optical illusion.
• Consider how you can create a anonymous portrait - try printing a portrait but placing drawn scribbles on acetate over your projection on top of your photographic paper. Look at the work of Arnulf Rainer.
• Using props and different costumes, transform a person. Stick to a simple background. Look at the work of David LaChapelle
Play with structure and layout
Play with light and projections
Costume & props
General Images for Inspiration
Play with focus and colour(Above: By Norman Parkinson)
Use the photo as part of a illustrated collage
Real & Fictional
Silhouettes & Shadows
Anonymous: Disguise & Masks
Adornment