CONTROLLED CONDITIONS
Psychological identity relates to self-image and how you see yourself in your own eyes. Your self image influences you identity quite a lot because depending on how you see yourself helps other peoples opinions on you come from.
I chose this photographer to resemble my self image because I tend to find myself quite two faced towards people like how I wear a mask to hide my true personality from people and show them only what I want them to see from me. Throughout my life my personality has changed and how my self image has changed my identity, my personality has changed in ways that it has pushed people away and brought people closer to me so I find I mostly struggle with my self image as I still don’t understand who I am so trying on different faces helps me connect on who I want to be and who I find I truly am.
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Case Study
Sebastian Bieniek
In 1999 Sebastian Bieniek for the very first time known in TV and magazines due to the performance “Hand without a body”, he also became part of film history with his film “The Gamblers” in 2007 because there was never before a movie made with such a small budget of 2000€. In 2011 Bieniek wrote the book REALFAKE where he described the theoretic fundament of his following artworks. The performance “My Friend Dr. Winker von der Deutschen Bank” in 2013 was widely published on the media causing a new phase of his work as an artist. Bieniek continued to work on his Manualism works in 2014. He travelled the world and began the “No Matter World Tour” where there perform in public spaces in different cities and countries.
His work of “Doubledfaced” shows a story of a two faced woman going about her day doing daily tasks such as drinking coffee, traveling on the train, taking a shower, and smoking cigarettes. he does this by using an eyeliner pencil and a lipstick to draw another face onto the woman and using her hair to cover her mouth and nose using one of her real eyes as part of the fake face, he then took 22 photos of this woman throughout her day.
Claude Cahun
Claude Cahun’s work is unexplainable as it changes the way she looks in all her photos changing from male to female defining gender to how we know and understand it. In her writings she wrote “Masculine? Feminine? But it depends on the situation. Neuter is the only gender that always suits me”, and “I will never finish removing all these masks”
Photo Shoot
Final outcome
I chose these images as my final outcome because the first one is blurry which shows how everything isn’t perfect and can’t be picture perfect. I slowed down the shutter speed to give the burry affect to the image which gives it the impression that it’s not perfect. The tones of this image that I created is cold giving a feeling of unhappiness with the fake face created, this reflects my personality because I find that when I become this new person I become very cold towards people and unloving which contrasts my true personality.
The second photo I chose because it uses one of my daily tasks of drinking my favourite drink yet it doesn’t completely link to the photographer as he takes photos of the woman during her daily activities as though it is natural for her to sit there with another face drawn on her face, I could improve this work by taking photos of me doing my daily tasks instead of the studio which I was to do this again I would go outside and sit where I usually wait to meet my friends or sit in my favourite coffee shop or sat in the library doing my homework.
Both these photos represent the photographer with the other face drawn on my own face yet it doesn’t completely match as there is room for improvement towards my photo shoot with placing and how the face is drawn on my own face as I find that it was too far away from my eye. They also link to the photographer with the idea of having another face on your own face and hiding the original face such as the nose and mouth.