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My Edits | Constructed Portraits

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To make this image, I cut out a landscape image from a magazine and covered my subjects face, like John Stezaker’s work.

The pins in the orignal copy (which I took a photo of) added depth so I chose that version of the image over the scanned version. I knew that when presenting this image I could then add actual pins to further the effect.

Like Stezaker’s work, I took two of my images and aligned them with eachother to present the differences and similarities in the two facial structures.

For the above two images, I looked at Hannah Hoch’s photomontage work and took images from online media and magazines of feminine and masculine looking things. I combined these with my own images which I had printed and cut out to collage.

For this image, I used any leftover cut outs that I did not use. I cut out my portrait image and placed the cutouts underneith so as to imply what is going on inside his head.

To make my glitch images like Heitor Magno’s, I converted my image files into audio files. Once I had done this, I added effects to the audio file such as amplitude. After doing this, I converted the audio file back to an image and I came out with the outcomes above.

http://datamoshing.com/2016/06/15/how-to-glitch-images-using-audio-editing-software/

I took my already glitched images, and created another layer of the same image over it. I moved the top layer slightly and changed the channel to red to give the whole image a 3D looking effect. Next, I used the smudge tool over the head to drag out the colours in the glitch.

For the above image, I did not add the 3D effect as I thought it made the image hard to look at. However, I did create two layers of the image, where I made the top layer black and white and rubbed out the bits where there was colour. This gave my image an outcome that was more similar to Heitor Magno’s.

  

To recreate Adam Goldberg’s work, I took two similar images but with slightly different perspectives and placed one over the other, adjusting the opacity so that I could see both parts of the image. I converted the overall image to black and white and increased contrast to make the double exposure effect more dramatic.

I added multiple photos but adjusted the opacity’s so that the person in the middle was the main focus. I liked this idea as it left it up to the viewer to figure out the story behind the image.

Again like Stezaker’s work, I took two images and cut them up on photoshop where I then positioned them on top of eachother so that the eyebrow, nose and hairline where in line. I converted one image to black and white to give it an older feel like Stezaker’s work

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Adam Goldberg | Constructed Portraits

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Adam Goldberg

Known primarily as an actor, Adam Goldberg is also a photographer, musician, and a filmmaker.

Although he shoots digitally as well, Adam works primarily with several analog cameras and film stocks ranging from 35mm to 8×10 with an emphasis on instant films.

His works use double exposure techniques to layer multiple similar images over one another. This can portray a plot, or the idea of what is going on inside someones head.

After looking at Adam Goldberg’s work, I wanted to also provide an underlying story of what is going on inside the subjects of my photos head.

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John Stezaker & Hannah Hoch | Constructed Portraits

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John Stezaker

John Stezaker’s work re-examines the various relationships to the photographic image: as a documentation of truth, purveyor of memory, and symbol of modern culture. In his collages, Stezaker appropriates images found in books, magazines, and postcards and uses them as ‘readymades’. Through his elegant juxtapositions, Stezaker adopts the content and contexts of the original images to convey his own witty and poignant meanings.

Using publicity shots of classic film stars, Stezaker splices and overlaps famous faces, creating hybrid ‘icons’ that dissociate the familiar to create sensations of the uncanny. Coupling male and female identity into unified characters, Stezaker points to a disjointed harmony, where the irreconciliation of difference both complements and detracts.

Hannah Hoch

Hannah Höch was a German Dada artist who lived from November 1st, 1889 – May 31st 1978 . She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage. Photomontage is a type of collage in which the pasted items are actual photographs pulled from other sources of media or photography.

Höch’s work often focused on gender roles where she wanted to show that woman were just as capable and equal as men. Her active interest in challenging the status of women in the social world of her times motivated a long series of works that promoted the idea of the “New Woman” in the era.

Using the same techniques of photomontage, I wanted to create works where I would merge masculine traits with feminine traits. I was inspired to combine my own images with photos of masculine and feminine stereotypes in media.