For my set up I had 2 lights behind my model and tried to make that work but I instead put a light in front of the tracing paper which worked a lot better. I set up a sheet of tracing paper to put in front of my models to give the blurry effect. I used clips and tripods to hold the frame up and began photographing. I had 5 models consisting of 2 males and 3 women and I found it really hard to get distinct details on their face without them touching the paper. The more detailed images were more successful as the viewer can actually see some facial features and it isn't all completely blurry. My models moved their faces around so I could get multiple angles and variations of them so the images weren't only straight on and I prefer it when the model is looking to the side and up as it is easier to see distinct features and their jaw lines. I started using colour but without worked better and more like Bill Jacobson's work
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Where I went to take the images:To take these images I went to a colourful tunnel located near Kings Cross station. I stood on the side and took a picture of all the passers-by. I only needed to stand there for 20 minutes to get enough pictures to use. There was a lot of people but I managed to get a lot of induvial by themselves. I was looking for people on there own like Bill Armstrong has as this is the most powerful. I wanted to get them all as black silhouettes as this contrasted the best with the colourful background and allowed me to make the images as bright and as saturated as I could. The tunnel was very long so I tried taking a mix of close up and far away images and found the closer ones looked better as the person was less blurry and so this added more contrast and fine lines on the images so it wasn't all blurry.
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Explanation of The Pieces:
These photographs show Ono in Liverpool, performing works that encouraged audience participation. During Peek Piece, she silently peered out at the audience from behind a white box. For Promise Piece, she smashed a vase with a hammer, inviting the audience members to take a piece and promise to return in 10 years to put it back together. In Wrapping Piece, Ono invited viewers onstage and asked them to wrap her in gauze until she disappeared. The performance was part of a series of concerts called Music of the Mind that Ono put on in Liverpool and London. |