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So, I'm taking a basic darkroom course to fulfill an art requirement even though I've had a wee bit of experience. It has been interesting to see the difference between my view of photography and the artist's view of photography (class at an art college and I'm the only non-art major). I've come to appreciate how hard it must be to be an art major.
Anyway, I'm stuck in rut with our latest assignment which is supposed to be a style investigation of a "well-known fine art photographer". Essentially we are to pick a photographer who inspires us and a subject that photographer did and emulate their style. We are evaluated based on how well we emulated "the composition, lighting, print quality (or lack of), and how well we interpret the content and/or presentation." We are to stay with the same subject or body of work and end up with 6 final prints in the style of the photographer.
The instructor provided us with a list of the usual photographers (Brassai, Kertesz, Abbott, Arbus, etc.), but we are allowed to pick someone off the list as long as we can prove them to be a "fine art" photographer.
We are supposed to shoot and submit 6 35mm 36 frame rolls for the assignment.
About a week ago, I had decided on Cindy Sherman because I thought the idea of film stills was interesting and I've wanted to play with cinematic lighting. However, the more that I look at her prints, I realize that they suck. There is no way that I could print in her style and live with myself, especially since some of these prints are to be included in a show at the end of the semester. She failed to capture the cinematic look in my opinion. I've been looking (the thread on favorite photographer's here was very helpful), but I haven't found anyone who I like that I can emulate technically with the exception of Gabriel Figueroa, but I doubt that I could claim him as a fine art photographer.
Since we are supposed technically emulate photographers, I would really like to choose a photographer who used 35mm and worked in black and white Bonus points for those who did portraits or cinematic looking work, but at this point I'm open to any suggestions.
Any suggestions?
P.S.
I would like to stray away from street photography (HCB, Kertesz, etc.) for this assignment.
Anyway, I'm stuck in rut with our latest assignment which is supposed to be a style investigation of a "well-known fine art photographer". Essentially we are to pick a photographer who inspires us and a subject that photographer did and emulate their style. We are evaluated based on how well we emulated "the composition, lighting, print quality (or lack of), and how well we interpret the content and/or presentation." We are to stay with the same subject or body of work and end up with 6 final prints in the style of the photographer.
The instructor provided us with a list of the usual photographers (Brassai, Kertesz, Abbott, Arbus, etc.), but we are allowed to pick someone off the list as long as we can prove them to be a "fine art" photographer.
We are supposed to shoot and submit 6 35mm 36 frame rolls for the assignment.
About a week ago, I had decided on Cindy Sherman because I thought the idea of film stills was interesting and I've wanted to play with cinematic lighting. However, the more that I look at her prints, I realize that they suck. There is no way that I could print in her style and live with myself, especially since some of these prints are to be included in a show at the end of the semester. She failed to capture the cinematic look in my opinion. I've been looking (the thread on favorite photographer's here was very helpful), but I haven't found anyone who I like that I can emulate technically with the exception of Gabriel Figueroa, but I doubt that I could claim him as a fine art photographer.
Since we are supposed technically emulate photographers, I would really like to choose a photographer who used 35mm and worked in black and white Bonus points for those who did portraits or cinematic looking work, but at this point I'm open to any suggestions.
Any suggestions?
P.S.
I would like to stray away from street photography (HCB, Kertesz, etc.) for this assignment.
