WES NAMAN-
Wes Naman was a very creative photographer and had very unusual ideas on how to display his portraits. At the top of this page, at the right, I attempted his idea by putting rubber bands around my face and I made sure I was in front of a dark background, like Wes Naman's. His photographs have a short depth of field and are mainly based around the persons face. He uses quite dull effects on his photographs, and only uses lighting straight on the face. In my opinion, Wes Naman is a photographer that displays the human condition as he displays the people in the photographs as original and normal people. The colours within his photographs are dull and dark, however, some of the people in the photographs have bright shirts which contrast with the dull background. Each photograph of Wes Naman's is different, including rubber bands or sellotape on the persons face.
I chose this photograph to edit onto as it has the subject in the centre of the photograph which enhances the short depth of field. I used rubber bands instead of cellotape as it makes the skin look more effective and detailed within the photograph. Shadows are shown on the subjects neck and on the face from the elastic bands which links with Naman's work. The lighting has been lightened with a colour enhance which makes it have more of orange effect which links with Naman's cellotape photographs. The tiles and objects in the background are quite distracting of the photograph which doesn't relate to Naman's work as he uses blank backgrounds. However, I used an eventful background as I thought the plain background made the photograph look boring and bland. Also, the colour of the tiles link with the orange effect of the photograph.
Jenny Saville-
Jenny Saville's aspect of photography was the most unusual that I found because of the way she displayed her photographs. The only thing that was in her photographs was the body of the woman but each photograph showed a different part of the woman which makes her the main subject. Her photographs make me think about social interpretations and what society thinks is 'beautiful' and 'perfect'. The colours in her photographs are quite vintage and pale, mainly on the woman. In her photographs, you can't really see a background, only a little part of light in the corner which makes it noticeable that there is a short depth of field. There isn't much lighting in the photographs, it is basic light which makes the skin look dull.
This is my version of Jenny Saville's type of photography. To create the photo, the person in the picture, Tom, squished his head in the photocopier to make the effect of a squashed face. There is a high contrast between the skin that is squashed and the skin that isn't, especially shown on his hand. The background is dark which makes a clear effect on what is the subject of the photograph. The difference between my version and Jenny Saville's is the colours arranged on the photograph. Jenny Saville's photographs creates an effect of a mucky colour such as a washed out effect. In my opinion, I think her photograph interprets the aspects of a persons body and how everyone has the same body parts so it shouldn't matter what people look like. Through this image, I have tried to present the connotations of sexual assault by the way the person is pressed onto a surface and looks very uncomfortable within their facial expression because I want to emphasise the serious subject of sexual assault.