What is identity?
identity definition dictionary
It’s a bit like your administrative identity combined with your physical characteristics, such as your date and place of birth. A photographic identity allows you to reveal yourself, to stand out among the crowd of photographers, to ensure your individuality and your irreplaceable artistic fingerprint.
i think that identity describes a person for example the way they appear, the stuff they wear. This can say a lot because it can show what there interests are, additionally identity can have a very big meaning for example like the environment a photo is taken it can be important to someone
masculinity
Masculine images typically convey power, strength, virility, athleticism, and competitiveness whereas feminine images show beauty, submissiveness, nurturance, and cooperation
i think masculine photos show how a male is compared to a women for example the male should be bigger and stronger then a women
femininity
A woman connected to her feminine essence: Chooses cooperation, kindness, and compassion over competition and dominance. Prioritizes creativity, emotional intimacy, and sensual experiences as essential to her well-being.
Claude Cahun
claude cahun is best known for her portraiture and writing, In her writing, she consistently referred to herself as elle (she), and this article follows her practice; but she also said that her actual gender was fluid. For example, in Disavowals, Cahun writes: “Masculine? Feminine? It depends on the situation. Neuter is the only gender that always suits me.” Cahun is most well known for her androgynous appearance, which challenged the strict gender roles of her time.
Claude Cahun was born Lucy Schwob in 1894. She came from a wealthy Jewish family of intellectuals and publishers. In 1918 she adopted the surname of her great uncle Léon Cahun, an Orientalist and Novelist. Her forename, Claude, in French can be either male or female or, in Claude’s case, both.
The goal for Cahuns work is to make people recognise her and that people can be different and at the end of the day everyone is still a human, she achieved these goals by going to prison and getting the death sentence and always stood by her opinion and she never switched up and when she came out of prison she carried on what she thought was right
Cahun’s connection with Jersey began early, with childhood holidays spent in Jersey and in 1939 the start of world war 2 Cahun decided to move to jersey for her safety as she was, lesbian, jewish and an artist
Image Analysis
Technical: the technical aspect of this photo is that Claude Cahun is using a low iso so less light is absorbed by the camera and it gives it the darker affect on lighter things like her hair because her hair is blonde
Visual: In this photo Cahun is angled so her head is facing the camera and the reflection is looking the other way the mirror is kind of like a barrier with her and the reflection.
Conceptual: Cahun is the main target of the photo she is the central idea of the photo, additionally she has no reaction
Contextual: the context behind this photo is that the world war 2 just started and she was Jewish, rebellious, creative and free thinking she was everything the Germans didn’t want but she always carried on and it was kind of like motivation for her
My ideas and inspiration
I want to take environmental automotive portraiture for example I want to take photos of vehicles in a natural environment, and the difference between masculinity and femininity within the vehicle industry so I can show the difference between a female and male car, I can also show the difference with the way they drive using body parts like hands and the different ways that male and females maintain there cars
my inspiration under this idea is Aaron Brimhall who is an automotive photographer, I think the way he makes his photos including vehicles is the same way I want to, by taking photos like this photographer and implementing the difference between masculinity and femininity.
this is a photo by Aaron I think its the style of photo i wanna make because it includes both masculinity with the car and femininity with the women who is in the car with her legs out if i do something similar i think it will be very good.
another artist who I think I can take inspiration from is Clare Rae this is because she implements body parts in her photo which is the main thing that I am focusing on for my project I think some of Clare Rae’s work can be put with Aarons work.
if I take photos of body parts with also a vehicle in the back it will be the goal that I am trying to achieve for this project.
I also like the idea of lad culture because it shows how boys will be boys and how they mess around, the banter boys have together, i think that i can preform good photos by doing this and also i can do the opposite and use females as well as i think it can show a difference.
from my first photo shoot i took 85 photos and found my best three photos:
this is my first feminine and masculine comparison. I think the detail of the steering wheel and the body parts holding the steering wheel so the big part in this photo is body parts because it shows the difference in how females and males hold the steering wheel
I like these two photos because it shows the difference in what females and males find amusing and in these photos i think it shows it perfectly because of the difference in smiles and also the difference with the clothing it is light clothing for the girl and dark clothing for the boy.
I also like these photos because its describes lad culture for the photo off the boy, to produce that photo i used double exposure and then took one of his face and then the camera and the thing with double exposure it basically combines two photos together and then with a little bit of editing i think that the photo came out very well. Where as the second photo i think its the opposite of lad culture and its more like a women culture because the girls are touchy they are laughing and you can see the nails as well i think that this is another good feminity and masculinity comparison
i think these photos are also very masculine because of the motorbike and the way that these two photos link, additionally i think the model in this photo looks very serious and scary to an extent. to edit these photos i added more lighting, exposure and get rid of the shadows that were there.