Here are some of Ralph Eugene Meatyard's images.
I really like the effects that he creates in his pictures. It's like a really dark mystery that you want to learn more about. I also like the way that his images tell some sort of story. I got the inspiration to make the images on left from Ralph Eugene Meatyard. At first I made the mask that the person in the photos is wearing. I made the mask out of modrock I had few ideas on wether i should of painted it but i thought if i left the mask than it would of kept the spooky untold look.
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My Starting Point: DisguiseI have chosen 'Disguise' because this theme shows a very unique side to photography, and i'm quite interested in it.
I've been inspired by one photographer his name is Ralph Eugene Meatyard. RESEARCH Ralph Eugene Meatyard wrote a book called 'An American Visionary'. Until recently he was on the fringes of photographic history —so much so that he inserted one of his own prints into his personal copy of Beaumont Newhall’s classic 'History of Photography', which did not include him. His impact on photographic practice has been significant. An optician in Lexington, Kentucky, Meatyard maintained a life-long interest in looking. Connected to a circle of poets and philosophers, he made photographs "rich in literary allusion". Meatyard’s photography was not accidental or documentary, but rather deliberate, often staged, and searching for inner truths rather than outward appearances. Ralph Eugene Meatyard has inspired me to take some images using masks in order to disguise the identity of my subjects. |
My First Set
Evaluation
WWWThe portraits look good. I experimented with the lighting to get different effects. I managed to keep the mask in place.
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EBIThe mask isn't very well made. Nafisa couldn't see through the eye holes and it doesn't do a very good job of disguising her features. I'm going to take another set of portraits and try something a bit different.
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My Second Set
I took these portraits using the studio lighting with the intention of disguising the printed image rather than the subject.
Experiments
Evaluation
WWWI like the way the marks and holes disturb the face. The red lighting gel behind the punched holes looks really good.
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EBIThe faces are still too recognisable to be really disguised. I need to do something a bit more radical to the images to see what this looks like.
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Stephen Shanabrook
One photographer who that has inspired me is Stephen Shanabrook. He started making chocolate pralines from casts of wounds and dead bodies. He worked in a chocolate factory which gave him the desire to become an artist which brought him to doing images like the ones below. He has ripped pages from a magazine and scrunched them up which distorts the main feature which is the face.
This gave me inspiration to make some images which are similar her are the images before I distorted them. Again, I began by taking some portraits in the studio. I chose to create fairly close-up images of the face and some wider shots.
This is one of the images after I started to distort it, I did it a few times to see the different outcomes.
When I finished distorting these images I scanned them and uploaded them. I then exported them into iPhoto and started to edit the images. I changed the contrast, exposure and saturation, reducing them to black and white. I wanted a more dramatic look, more abstract, so that it wasn't immediate
After editing these images I thought that it would look better if I focused the images on a main part of the face. I cropped each image square, making it less obvious that the original image was an A4 print. I think this makes the pictures look more confusing and mysterious.
I decided to print these images to A3 size and mount them for display on board.
Final Evaluation
I chose Disguise because i've never done anything with this them so i thought it'd be good to have a change and try something new, i enjoyed experimenting with this theme because you have a wide variety of ideas you can do so much within this theme you just need to be creative with it and you'll get far within it.
When i first started this theme i started to research one photographer that i saw some interesting images from his name is Ralph Eugene Meatyard. In Ralph Eugene Meatyard's images he disguised people by using scary halloween masks but he had a twist to the images he used a family to put on the masks. This was interesting because normally families are supposed to be all loving and perfect in a way he presents them in a dull manor and something that looks quite mysterious. Ralph Eugene Meatyard gave me some inspiration of my own to make some images like his. I made a mask out of mod rock but i only made it to cover the eyes, it turned out really well and my images looked very weird something quite unreal you can see these images at the top of my page. After i done that i started to change the way i disguised my images, i then started to use a normal printed A4 picture that i had taken and used ink stamps that i found in the class room and covered the whole face and then i found a whole puncher and started doing the same with the whole puncher. lastly i saw some images on Tallis Arts Pinterest which gave me inspiration to disguise a different set of portraits when i started this i folded and scrunched the main feature of the image which was the face in this case, after that i cropped the image and changed the effect to black and white in iPhoto.
In this unit i used many equipment to take the images i used a DLSR to make a clear affect of the image and to make my mask i used mod rock. to disguise the other pictures i used an ink stamp and for the other image i used a whole puncher. i used this type of equipment because i wanted to try something new and something thats quite unique, something that no one really sees anymore. Also i haven't seen anything like this so i thought it would be a good idea to change the way I've worked within photography. i have used my website to keep track on with my work, and ideas.
in this unit i feel quite confident in it i have enjoyed making my pieces and i'd like to carry on with because its quite good and i can think of many different things to expand it with.
When i first started this theme i started to research one photographer that i saw some interesting images from his name is Ralph Eugene Meatyard. In Ralph Eugene Meatyard's images he disguised people by using scary halloween masks but he had a twist to the images he used a family to put on the masks. This was interesting because normally families are supposed to be all loving and perfect in a way he presents them in a dull manor and something that looks quite mysterious. Ralph Eugene Meatyard gave me some inspiration of my own to make some images like his. I made a mask out of mod rock but i only made it to cover the eyes, it turned out really well and my images looked very weird something quite unreal you can see these images at the top of my page. After i done that i started to change the way i disguised my images, i then started to use a normal printed A4 picture that i had taken and used ink stamps that i found in the class room and covered the whole face and then i found a whole puncher and started doing the same with the whole puncher. lastly i saw some images on Tallis Arts Pinterest which gave me inspiration to disguise a different set of portraits when i started this i folded and scrunched the main feature of the image which was the face in this case, after that i cropped the image and changed the effect to black and white in iPhoto.
In this unit i used many equipment to take the images i used a DLSR to make a clear affect of the image and to make my mask i used mod rock. to disguise the other pictures i used an ink stamp and for the other image i used a whole puncher. i used this type of equipment because i wanted to try something new and something thats quite unique, something that no one really sees anymore. Also i haven't seen anything like this so i thought it would be a good idea to change the way I've worked within photography. i have used my website to keep track on with my work, and ideas.
in this unit i feel quite confident in it i have enjoyed making my pieces and i'd like to carry on with because its quite good and i can think of many different things to expand it with.