Cindy Sherman:

• Portrayal of gender in media

• montage

Claude Cahun:

• Adopting various identities

Clare Rae

• Figurative environment

 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

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

The Mask Selfie

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

Student Mask response:

Nikita Pirogov

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

Alicja Brodowicz

• Juxtaposition
• Body / Natural Forms

 Gianfranco Meloni:  

 Alban Grosdidier

• Under Water
• Convey feelings of drowning under pressure

Wes Naman – distortion, challenging beauty norms

Unknown photographer / Noor+

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:

Monty Milburn

Theo Acwroth

Danny Evans – Project on skaters from Jersey

Pete Thompson

Rob Hammer- Basketball culture

Studio Ideas:

Backlighting

Interesting shadows / lighting

CREATIVE EDITING IDEAS:….

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

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:

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

Maurizio Anzeri: 

‘Fragments’ – Link to photographer website

David Hockney

• Distort

Christoffer Relander

• Double exposure
• Express emotion

Sakir Yildirim