Juxtaposition

Juxtaposition

A juxtaposition involves pairing 2 or more images together to show similarities or differences between the them. It often involves positioning the different subjects next to each other [for example a tall and short person] and photographing them in order to present how the differences/similarities between them.

One way of doing this is by recreating an older photo by posing the model in a similar way to the older image. This would be a juxtaposition as it’s comparing the past to the present and showing the differences in life through a similarity [the positions of the models]. The website ED.EM.03 presents Henry Mullins [mid-1800’s] and Michelle Sank’s [2013] work on portraiture side by side, emphasising how things have changed over time from the camera quality to the type of clothing being worn.

My Juxtaposition

For this juxtaposition, I found an old photo of me as a child and decided to take some photos of myself with the butterflies on my face. I kept the older photo the same but decided to lower the saturation on the remake other than the orange of the butterflies, drawing attention towards them, in order to create a contrast between the colourful and bright nature of the older image. This way, I was able to establish a juxtaposition through the age of the images and through some of the visual aspects too.

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