Notes:
Fashion Shoot Influences – David Bowie Space Oddity:
Look at music video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D67kmFzSh_o
Reflections distorted round a focal point image – Fun house mirrors
White Backgrounds – Contrasts with stark colours/metallic
Black Background with figure appearing to ‘float’
Female figure with metallic gold face/ hair wearing a floating thin dress
Vogue October 2011: pages 266-277,
‘Tech Mate’ – “Shake up everyday looks with an intergalactic spin. Minimal separates shift gear in blast off brights, gleaming techie fabrics and new ergonomic lines – all multi-tasking for now.” Photographer: Patrick Demarchelier.
Bright Colours- Lips, accessories, props, clothing.
Robot toys important prop in this shoot, poses of model are also almost robotic, clothing clean cut lines with layering, techie fabrics.
Maybe combine aspects from the two influences…Space oddity’s layout (distorted reflections circling a focal point) Poses being ‘lighter than air’ the effect of floating. With ‘tech mate’ fashion shoots bold bright colours in front of white background/black background, props such as children’s toys – robots, spaceships, aliens, clothing ‘techie fabrics’ combined with ‘blast off brights’. (Props - could possibly use sliver skull..)
Vogue ‘The Secret Address Book’ : “Light Source” Shoot – “The perfect blend of technological precision and artistic sensibility. Swarovski Elements if, and has long been, the preferred choice of cut crystal for major designers, from Coco Chanel and Christian Dior to Marios Schwab and Christopher Kane. Swarovski crystals throw light on everything they touch.” Photographed by Benjamin Lennox.
Possible aspect that could combine with Space Oddity/Tech Mate is to add lots of crystals to the model using light to shine colours etc. almost like a star in space, a beautiful object (model) placed in a blacked out space.
Vogue September 2011 issue: ‘Master Class’ – “The rigorous beauty of the autumn collections is perfectly recast in Antwerp’s austere cobbled streets, with echoes of Old Master studies.” Photographed by Mario Testino.
Mood Series from Music:
The Cinematic Orchestra/London Metropolitan Orchestra – The Arrival of the Birds, The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos
Mood: Uplifting, Has interesting pace (grows and then explodes almost euphoric then dies down again, almost like the curve of a wave, undulating), Euphoric, Emotive.
Lighting will be a very important factor to this series, to create the mood of an uplifting and euphoric pace most likely will be either a sunrise or sunset. Maybe do a series of photographs recording the rise or setting of the sun in one single spot.
Photographers that create an Atmosphere:
Jurgen Schadeberg: Euphoric, Uplifting photographs…
“Hans Prignitz’s Handstand on the Saint Michaelis Church, Hamburg”
“Dancing at the Ritz”
John Bulmer: The weather in his landscapes plays a vital part of creating an atmosphere, most of his images show dark, depressing landscapes, this characterises the context of the image.
“Lonely Pub, Yorkshire”
“View over the Potteries, Stoke on Trent”
“Graveyard, Wakefield”
Sebastiao Salgado: Again a photographer using lighting to create emotion and atmosphere in …
“Tigray, Ethopia”
Kurt Iswarinko: Beautiful use of light very atmospheric very similar to Nan Goldin’s photography…
Phil Toledano: Extremely emotive and thought provoking images, a series called ‘Days with my Father’ …
Bruno Avelien: Interesting use of light and colour to create a mood…
Lyrics as an influence for Project:
Smashing Pumpkins – Fuck you (An ode to no one) – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
“I’m never coming back” – Could be an influence to the process of travelling, looking out of vehicle windows, tickets, traffic lights/signs etc.
“Galaxies full of nobodies” – Photographs of strangers on my travels, crowds of people to show the insignificance of an individual.
Decision: “GALAXIES FULL OF NOBODIES”
Photographers who take images of strangers …
August Sanders: Almost like a collector of butterflies he collects photographs of people and their identity…
Tim Walker: Imaginative photographs of people …
“Aunty Bunty: witch”
Jake Chessum: Documentary photography, movement in a city square, strange, almost ghostly…
Alexey Titarenko: Recording movement and sombre ghost like figures in industrial landscapes using long exposures to record the movement of people, not just an accurate record of them-the sombre nature of the images shows you more about the real atmosphere of the areas of which these where taken (Russia) …
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