Within my creative portrait images and edits I intend to try to and incorporate all of these factors which I have researched associating with a lack of identity. All of these elements will help to ensure my edits portray a true and real reflection of loss of identity.
Tableau vivant , French for 'living picture', is a style of artistic presentation, often shortened to simply tableau. It most often describes a group of suitably costumed actors, carefully posed and often theatrically lit. By extension, it also applied to works of visual art including painting, photography and sculpture, featuring artists' models in similar arrangements, a style used frequently in the works of the Romantic, Aesthetic, Symbolist, Pre-Raphaelite, and Art Nouveau movements. Jean-François Chevrier was the first to use the term tableau in relation to a form of art photography, which began in the 1970s and 1980s in an essay titled "The Adventures of the Picture Form in the History of Photography" in 1989. The key characteristics of the contemporary photographic tableau according to Chevrier are, firstly: "They are designed and produced for the wall. summoning a confrontational experience on the part of the spectator that sharply contrasts with the habitual processes of appropriation and projection whereby photographic images are normally received and "consumed".
http://thedeadphotos.com/index/
“The Dead Photos”, an on-going series by Tom Phillips. Featuring a set up scene of a dead man in multiple locations all over the world, since 2007 over 50 images have been uploaded to the series website, which is linked above.
Creative Photography First Ideas
For creative photography project, I wanted to mainly focus on the idea of loss of Identity and how it can be expressed in different ways. After looking for some time I found that I liked two main concepts for the project. The first idea is Is taking person apart and then editing back on it so they persons face is obscured and that their identity is lost, I also liked the idea of taking a person image but in such a way that an onlooker would not be able to work out who the actual person is so those two concepts are going to be the focus of my shoots.
Main ideas for the project
Unfocused/Blurred Images
Obscured Faces
Mood Board For Loss OF Identity
Tableau photography
Tableau vivant ,also kown as aliving picture’, is a style of artistic presentation, often shortened to simply tableau. It most often describes a group of suitably costumed actors, carefully posed and often theatrically lit. Jean-François Chevrier was the first to use the term tableau in relation to a form of art photography, which began in the 1970s and 1980s in an essay titled “The Adventures of the Picture Form in the History of Photography” in 1989.
What is studio lighting and why do we use it?
Studio lighting is an effective way of lighting up a subject using artificial light sources, it is done in order to: reflect light off the subject, highlight certain features of a subject and to give a clear image of the subject by enlightening them. It helps the photographer to create a controlled environment in order to an exact photograph that you want. Studio lighting allows you to completely control how hard/soft the light is, the intensity of it and the direction of which it is coming from. It is easy to adjust studio lighting in order to create the best shot possible by highlighting certain parts of the subjects face and body and by reflecting light in different directions.
Spill Lighting
Spill lighting is lighting where the light falls where it was not intended to fall by the photographer. This creates a distracting effect within images which can either benefit or ruin your photographs.
Fill Lighting
Fill light is any source of illumination that lightens or fills in areas of shadow created by other lights. Usually, fill light is used to lighten the shadows created by the key light. This is purposefully done to give a natural full look to the subject in order to get a nice clean image.
Chiaroscuro Lighting
Chiaroscuro lighting is a technique of lighting that uses strong tonal contrasts between light and dark in order to exaggerate certain aspects of the subject with a very dramatic effect. This technique creates a lot of drama and mysteriousness which works well in a semi-abstract way.
Henri Cartier-Bresson was born 1908 in France, however died at the impressive age of 95 in 2004 after having contributed immensely to the worldwide photography community and to The Magnum Photography Company. He was a French humanist photographer who was and still is seen as a great of truthful and important photography. He contributed massively to the development of the genre of street photography, and he viewed photography as a way of capturing the ''decisive moment.'' His parents helped him financially so that Henri was able to carry out photography more freely without the need to source finance himself. Henri was also an interested artist who enjoyed sketching and painting. While traveling around the world, Bresson became inspired by different forms of art, people and the environment that he was surrounded by. At one point in his life he was also captured by German soldiers which further inspired his work that explored the suffering and pain of war.
Here is a link to Magnum Photos (the company which Bresson contributed to hugely) – https://www.magnumphotos.com/
And here is a link to the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation website – http://www.henricartierbresson.org/en/
Here is some of the work produced by Henri Cartier-Bresson…
In my personal opinion I love the way that Henri Cartier-Bresson was able to make emotionally and physically horrible things and events appear so aesthetically beautiful through the composure and camera skills. This would assist Bresson in creating something that would stand 2 main purposes, one being the aesthetics of his work and the other being the important and meaningful documentary of his work.
Street photography is about documenting and or finding and capturing the beauty or horror within everyday life and the society who live within it. However although it may seem this way street photography does not have to be taken in the ‘streets’, like in town. You can carry out street photography in other populated areas, however the streets are an interesting place to carry out photo shoots due to their highly populated space.
Here are some examples of street photography from other photographers…
Here is a link to a website which shows tips, tricks and thought provoking ideas on how to execute street photography – http://erickimphotography.com/blog/the-ultimate-beginners-guide-for-street-photography/
Tableau vivant also know for living picture. Tableau is a style of artistic presentation, usually shortened to just tableau. It describes a group of suitably costumed actors, posed and lit up theatrically. It is commonly applied to visual arts like photography. It is frequently used in visual arts like photography. Tableu photography is often used in the works of the romantic, aesthetics and symbolism photography.
Studio lighting is used because the light can be easily manipulated and controlled to produce the desired image for a photographer. Studio lighting can be continuous or flash. Continuous lighting is when there is always a source of light, like a base fro lighting. Flash lighting is a burst of light that helps to eliminate unwanted shadows. Combinations of light can be used - flash and continuous and 1 2 and 3 point lighting. 1 2 and 3 point lighting is used to illuminate different parts of the subject that add other dimensions and moods to the photographs, but also to keep the photographs well lit. Fill lighting lights up the areas where there is shadow; fills the shadows formed by other lights with light. Spill light is the light that falls where it is not intended to fall and creates shadows hence why fill lighting is used to prevent this.
