Claude Cahun:

• Adopting various identities

Clare Rae

• Figurative environment

Cindy Sherman:

• Portrayal of gender in media

• montage

Francesca Woodman

• Long exposure
• Movement
• Memories

Photograph moving subjects to create blurred, painterly forms, as in these examples by Mirjam Appelhof:

• Long exposure
• Movement
• Memories
• Transience

Other examples of slow shutter speed

Morath & Saul Steinberg – the ‘Mask’ series

• Disguise

Designer Francesca Lombardi created these enigmatic origami animal masks for photographer Giacomo Favilla’s series called “One Of Us.”

Ralph Eugene Meetyard

Lasse Holie

Nikita Pirogov:

• Juxtaposition – using a second photography to communicate something about the person in the portrait

Christoffer Relander

• Double exposure
• Express emotion

Alicja Brodowicz

• Juxtaposition
• Body / Natural Forms

David Hockney

• Distort

The Reflected/Mirror Selfie

Try using a range of reflective surfaces (not just mirrors). What happens when you choose a shop window, curved surfaces or a sequence of mirrors

Duane Michals

 Alban Grosdidier

• Convey feelings of drowning under pressure

Sakir Yildirim

Wes Naman

The Disguised Selfie

Lots of photographers/artists focus on the theme of disguise, from Cindy Sherman and Claude Cahun to Alec Soth

Alec Soth – ‘unselfie’ from the series Broken Manual, 2009:

 The Obscured Selfie

Associated with the Disguised Selfie, there are several examples of photographic Selfies in which the subject’s face is obscured

Richard Hamilton

 The Human Sculpture/Performance Selfie

Rather than taking a straightforward self-portrait, some artists have experimented with transforming themselves (and others) into sculptures. 

Erwin Wurm – One Minute Sculpture

Clare Rae

The Surreal Selfie

Erwin Blumenfield – Self-portrait, 1945

Brian Oldham – Self-portrait with butterflies

The Mask Selfie

rwin Blumenfeld – Self-Portrait with mask, New York, ca 1958

Simryn Gill – A small town at the turn of the century, 1999-2000

Capture the same scene at different times, as in this photography series by Clarisse d’Arcimoles:

Create a complex ‘unrealistic’ setting and photograph it, as in this composition by Cerise Doucède:

Digitally draw over photographs, as in these portraits by May Xiong:

Cut through photographs to expose other layers of photographs below, as in these images by Lucas Simões:

Create layered handmade collages, like these works by Damien Blottière:

Combine multiple exposures to create the illusion of repeated objects, like these creative compositions by Lera:

Photograph scenes through small gaps or holes, as in these photographs by Reina Takahashi:

 Gianfranco Meloni:  

Stitch photographs together, like Lisa Kokin: 

Maurizio Anzeri: 

Example Student Response to their own research: