Multiple Exposures

For my diptych and triptych project I'm hoping to use multiple exposure portraits which I shot in-camera. First, I shot a black and white roll of film of various textures and scenes, taking the pictures slightly underexposed. Then, I partially rewound the film and loaded the same roll again, so I could shoot portraits over my previous images. Here are a few images I turned to for inspiration, though most are digital so mine will probably look pretty different. 

Christoffer Relander "We Are Nature": 

Andre De Freitas: 

Joiners and Cubism

David Hockney's Joiners:

Sun On The Pool Los Angeles April 13th 1982

Prehistoric Museum Near Palm Springs, 1982

Cubism: A nonobjective school of painting and sculpture developed in Paris in the early 20th century, characterized by the reduction and fragmentation of natural forms into abstract, often geometric structures usually rendered as a set of discrete planes.

Les Desmoiselles By Pablo Picasso 

Popova By George Braque

Ben Yates: 

Disintegration of Sunflower

Nude #1

Photo Cubism

Mallands

Diego Kuffer's "In Transit":

Diptychs and Triptychs

Diptych: a work made up of two matching parts 

By Silvia Sala and Freddy Viera 

By Mike Terry

By Kenneth Moyle

Triptych: a work made up of three matching parts 

By Adde Adesokan

Unknown

By Barbara Cole

Then & Now

Then- 

Now- 

My parents raised me to fit the Portland stereotype; love nature and be courteous. I like to think the person I was in the older photo already learned these lessons, but in reality, I doubt my thoughts were quite so developed. However, I'm sure I loved playing in the leaves and going to the pumpkin patch, just being outside after the summer heat and before the winter rains. I'm a bit more capable now, and my love for the outdoors can take me a little farther than Sauvie's Island, but it all started with the short trips I took as a kid. As for my parents' second life lesson, I'm sure I struggled to share toys and attention when I was younger. Now, I try to be inclusive and friendly and open to others, though there's no denying my childish,selfish tendencies are exposed every once and awhile. Getting older doesn't seem to rigidly mean becoming better. Some days I'm an oblivious child, who only wants to crunch dead leaves beneath her feet. Others, my attitude fits my age, as I backpack through mountain ranges and make friends with strangers. Either way, I always try to remember: love nature and be courteous. 

Gallery Visit

During the Blue Sky Gallery visit, I was particularly drawn to Maria José D'Amico's exhibit, Bien de Familia. My favorite image was #12, depicting an empty room with glass doors and a stone fireplace. The lighting through the doors is particularly striking, as it is the central focus of the photo and is framed by the doorway. Di'Amico's artist statement claims her exhibit "is a haunting and bittersweet tribute to the people who once inhabited the various spaces." This is evident through her use of lighting, emphasizing the emptiness of the space through the reflection on the bare floor. The darkened walls give the image a spooky feel, leading the viewer to question what used to occupy that space. I connected with this photo the most because it looks most like the kind of place I would live, rather than some of the older, lavish rooms shown in her other images. I'm inspired by the simplicity of D'Amico's photograph, which is very different from my style. I love her use of lighting, which adds a lot of drama to her digital photos and makes them more dynamic. This is something I struggle with when working digitally, so I now know to focus on lighting to add interest to my photos. 

Conceptual Self-Portrait

Soooo I've now changed my mind about my conceptual self-portrait. I'm planning on making a collage with photos of different aspects of my bed room, with a photo of myself in the center. Here are a few of the (unedited) photos I plan of putting in the collage. 

Independent Project Progress

I've shot the backgrounds I want to use to project onto people to shoot portraits, and will hopefully shoot the portraits sometime this week. Here are a few of my favorite shots: 

Though I was originally planning on emulating Carl Warner's bodyscapes, these photos are much more similar to Edward Weston's nudes. 

Self Portrait Idea

For my more metaphorical/artistic self-portrait, I want to shoot different parts of my body (hands, feet, eyes, etc), then add some sort of writing piece talking about how each part defines me. Ideally these photos will be in black and white film, though I might shoot digitally first to figure out exactly which photos I want//to make sure the person taking the pictures can capture what I want. I could also venture outside of my comfort zone and shoot in color film, but I might want some more practice with it first. 

Brian Leighton- Body Parts

'We're All Gonna Die- 100 meters of existence'

I love this piece by Simon Hogsberg. He shot in the same spot on a railroad bridge in Berlin to capture a massive variety of people. It's a completely different style to what I'm used to. Not every shot is framed well; heads are chopped off, people are blocking others behind them, there are unfocused figures in the foreground. It's also digital, without much alteration, which I tend to find boring. I feel this way because it's as if there's no aspect of "art", you're not creating something so much as capturing a moment, producing exactly what your eyes see. And most of the time the things we see everyday are boring. But that's why I love this piece so so much. Sure, it's capturing a moment in time, but the point is that in a given moment there are a million different people doing a million different things, ordinary or not. It's an idea I'm interested in exploring and also a style I might want to try, which would challenge me to figure out how to shoot digitally in a way I don't find boring. 

Independent Project Inspiration and Research

Edward Weston Nude Photographs

-Nude 1925-

-Nude 1936- 

-Nude 1934-

-Nude 1925-

Carl Warner Bodyscapes 

-Shin Knee Valley-

-Headless Horizon- 

For my independent project, I'm hoping to explore the human form in some way. I love the idea of photographing bodies in a way that they're almost unrecognizable, similar to the style of Carl Wagner's bodyscapes. I then want to project these images and shoot portraits. I intend on shooting the bodyscapes with black and white film, then using a digital camera to shoot the portraits.