I find these 7 unedited images were my best images in the photoshoot as all of them are very clear and really represent a backstory/ portray what a female would be seen doing or be seen as in todays society.
Detailed Analysis
Out of the 7 images I have selected I would say this image was the best out of all 7. In this image I have asked my model to just casually be using her phone as she would normally while I took a photo of her whilst she was doing that. My thoughts behind this image was to represent the society people in my generation live in as phones are the biggest trend and are owned by almost everyone, I did this to show how much young people in todays society are influenced by mobile devices which has many negatives as well as positives. Our mobile devices hold every little bit of information on what goes on in the world to little things like checking up on your friends, as you can see in this image my model is posing in front of her phone camera, this could be her taking a selfie which is very common for people, mainly girls to take part in. Furthermore, in my image I have used Chiaroscuro lighting, my image was taken in a studio using studio lighting , my image has a good contrast between light and dark where the areas of lighting are the areas that focus on the model herself and the main subject of what she’s doing.
In addition, the lighting in my image refers to the famous artist Rembrandt, using his famous technique of chiaroscuro this is where the image has a dark background and has very prominent areas of lighting which really draws the eye to the main areas of the image. As you can see in his artwork its lighting focuses on the expressions and main parts of the image which is what I tried to recreate in my images.
Here is my first photoshoot for femininity, for this photoshoot I asked my model to do positions which I thought would represent feminine behaviours and personalities. to do this I used mirrors, straight on portraits and even some images using a flower which refers to females as they are pretty, fragile and delicate as women are known to be in todays society.
MiniEvaluation :
here is my second photoshoot for femininity, for this shoot I used various different props and positions to create images that represented femininity such as using a mirror while I got my model to put on some lipstick I felt this really represented women. for another image I decided to use some headphones and got my model to pose with the headphones on as if she was listening to music.
firstly I am going to find props and things I can relate to women such as a mirror, flowers, cute outfits etc. I am going to be photographing my friend Eden as the model for my photoshoot where I will take a range of images including various different poses both using and not using a mirror and other feminine props.
Masculinity :
For this shoot I am going to be using my younger brother as my model, for the shoot I’m going to find many props that I would relate to men such as tools, muscles, strength and anything along those lines to represent and capture what a man is known as in todays society.
Barbara Kruger (born January 26, 1945) is an American conceptual artist and collagist associated with the Pictures Generation. She is most known for her collage style that consists of black-and-white photographs, overlaid with declarative captions, stated in white-on-red Future Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed text.
Achievements :
In 2005, Kruger was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale, where she was also commissioned to design the façade of Italy’s national pavilion. In 2019, the artist was awarded the Kaiserring also known as Emperor’s Ring prize from the city of Goslar, in Germany.
how did she become known?
Barbara Kruger used her classical training in design and her experience in the fashion industry to create conceptual art that pushed audiences to question assumptions about gender, violence, patriotism, and their relationship to the media. At age 22, she became chief designer at Mademoiselle. This is when Barbara Kruger’s career first began.
what is Barbara Kruger’s most famous artwork?
This is Barbara Kruger’s most famous artwork, this image creates a story of what it was like for women to live back in 1989, as they face struggles of having no rights, and having to live a stereotypical life as a stay at home mother, cleaner and not given the rights to freedom as much as men were.
This image is very unique as it really paints a clear image to anyone viewing the image, and points out the clear factors of life back then.
What was Barbara Kruger first artwork?
Kruger’s earliest artworks date to 1969. Large woven wall hangings of yarn, beads, sequins, feathers, and ribbons, they exemplify the feminist recuperation of craft during this period
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Description
Barbara Kruger’s work focuses a lot on both femininity and masculinity however it has more of a focus on femininity, she takes black and white photos of each gender and uses words and phrases over her images to express certain feelings and conceptions about both women and men.
personal opinion
I really like Barbara Kruger’s photography as she uses many techniques in which clearly represent what she is trying to make people see within her images. Her use of black and white images creates the effect of ancient/old images taking the viewer back in time to the early 1980s when her photography was taken, her use of red writing over the top of these images creates a very special effect to the images while also giving it a meaning as the colour red was used to signify women.
Cindy Sherman :
Cindy Sherman, was born January 19, 1954, Glen Ridge, New Jersey, U.S. American photographer known for her images particularly her elaborately “disguised” self-portraits that comment on social role-playing and sexual stereotypes.
achievements :
Cindy’s work is included in the collections of the Tate Gallery, London; the Museum of Modern Art; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. Sherman has received numerous awards, including the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography in 1999 and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship in 1995.
Why is Cindy Sherman important?
Cindy Sherman is one of the best-known and most important artists working today. Her decades-long performative practice of photographing herself under different guises has produced many of contemporary art’s most iconic and influential images.
Her photography inspired many people of all different ages, races and gender, this made her work very unique and stand out to many people causing her to become very well known and even respected for her work.
Cindy Sherman’s most famous work
One of Cindy Sherman’s most famous pieces is ” Untitled Film Still #21.” The piece, which is part of a series of black-and-white photographs, features Sherman in various guises as she adopts different personas.
Cindy’s work inspired people that everyone can be different even when they are the same person as in a lot of her photography she would dress up in many different personas to create different types of people and unique looks.
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description
Cindy Sherman’s photography presents women and how they are portrayed in society many years ago, some to most of her images show specific roles or activities that females were known to do due to stereotypes.
masculine photography outlines the way a man is represented in stereotypes such as men being strong, powerful and smart, the photos capture the strength of these men and create the effect to show how strong and powerful a man is in comparison to woman.
femininity in photography outlines the stereotype of women being weaker and the more emotional gender of society while also representing how independent and hard working women can be.
qualities or attributes regarded as characteristic of women or girls. Femininity can be understood as socially constructed, and there is also some evidence that some behaviours considered feminine are influenced by both cultural factors and biological factors.
femininity can be altered and changed within a person depending on their area and surroundings, for example if someone was brought up with the old rules and laws based around woman and brought up to think they should be dominated and controlled by all the men in their life they would act different to someone who was brought up to be an independent woman and told to never rely on a man but to provide and live for themselves only without being controlled by an manly figure.
woman are seen to be the weaker gender of society who are seen as needy, weak and mentally unstable compared to men being viewed as strong, mentally stable and always the dominant one of the two, for many years it was a patriarchal society which means it was controlled by men this took years before woman were allowed to have a wider say in day to day things and to have the right to jobs and normal things that men had the priority to be able to do/have whereas woman were treated differently and never had as many rights or freedoms as men.
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What is masculinity?
Masculinity is a set of attributes, behaviours, and roles associated with men and boys. Masculinity can be theoretically understood as socially constructed, and there is also evidence that some behaviours considered masculine are influenced by both cultural factors and biological factors.
masculinity can be changed depending on the location and who men and boys are brought up surrounded by, for example some boys are brought up around a father who has more control then his mother and the mother may be the one who stays home and does all the housework, living in this household the boy would be brought up to be a man who dominates and makes sure he is in control this also means he would be tough minded and wouldn’t let his emotions get to him, however someone who lived in a household where both the mother and father have hard working paid jobs and both do the cleaning around the house that child would grow up knowing that both men and woman are equal and could possibly be less closed off emotionally rather then someone who was brought up knowing to hide their emotions.
masculinity mood board :
men have always been represented as the dominant, strong and hard working people of society which is a stereotype that has stuck around for years all the way until the end of the second world war where woman were finally given more rights.
Ole Christiansen (Danish): A special preoccupation has been music photography, portraits, but also often strongly graphically emphasized urban landscapes which is reflected in his portraiture. Ole has over the years provided pictures for a myriad of books, magazines, record covers, annual reports, etc.
Butterfly lighting is a type of portrait lighting technique used primarily in a studio setting. Its name comes from the butterfly-shaped shadow that forms under the nose because the light comes from above the camera. You may also hear it called ‘paramount lighting’ or ‘glamour lighting’.
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butterfly lighting context/analysis :
Butterfly lighting is a popular lighting technique in portrait photography that creates a soft and flattering effect on the subject’s face. This technique is named after the butterfly-shaped shadow that is created under the subject’s nose.
why use butterfly lighting ?
Butterfly lighting is a type of lighting pattern for studio portraiture. It is used for taking flattering, glamorous portrait photos. The lighting is soft on the face. It forms a butterfly-shaped shadow under the subject’s nose, which is the source of the name.
my response :
here is my first photoshoot attempt while using butterfly lighting.
best image :
this image could be easily improved by facing the lighting right in front of the models face in order to properly catch the butterfly lighting look on the face.
enry Mullins started working at 230 Regent Street in London in the 1840s and moved to Jersey in July 1848, setting up a studio known as the Royal Saloon, at 7 Royal Square. Initially he was in partnership with a Mr Millward, about whom very little is known. By the following year he was working alone and he continued to work out of the same studio for another 26 years.
His portrait were printed on a carte de visite as a small albumen print, (the first commercial photographic print produced using egg whites to bind the photographic chemicals to the paper) which was a thin paper photograph mounted on a thicker paper card. The size of a carte de visite is 54.0 × 89 mm normally mounted on a card sized 64 × 100 mm. In Mullins case he mounted his carted de visite into an album.
this work was his style called receipt where he would print his images as 9×5 and create a unique looking set of images.
this style of his work was called cameos where he would take a variety of different portraits and use a few put into a certain layout and presented.
this style of his photography was called vignette where he would bleach the image leaving only specific parts of the image remaining to create a unique effect where the image is shown to fade.
