Thursday, February 19, 2009
JENNY METZ
For my project, I would like to "combine" photos. I would like to combine objects or scenes with emotions. In the printing process, I would use the same paper to develop two different photos to layer them on top of each other. This is inspired by something that happened last semester. Two people accidentally developed two different images onto the same paper and the result was very interesting. I would like to use this idea to pair the portraits of people with a separate image.
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Project_02 Self Assessment (not sure where to put this)
ReplyDeleteThe concept of my group’s book was “Portraits with Words”. We each interpreted this differently; I specifically created the concept of “I am not.” My idea directly plays off of Rachel’s idea by opposing her implied idea of “I am”. Jordan’s idea of “I would” further creates a way for each idea to reflect one another and Ellie’s idea of opposing words pulls the overlying theme of opposites together. My and Jordan’s sections reflect each other from the use of two images per page and Ellie’s and Rachel’s reflect each other from a single image per page. Each person’s ideas are tied together by the continuous use of black and white photography. The book is put together in a way so that the ideas flow together in a manner that allows each person’s concept to stand out but also blend with the rest of the book.
My section considers the idea of “I am not”. It plays around with different moods: lighthearted and funny (i.e. “I am not green”), thought provoking (i.e. “I am not recyclable”), and serious (i.e. “I am not definable”). These various moods are shown throughout the book as well, once again tying together each person’s concept. My photographic content is consistent throughout the section: two photographs per page, each a portrait containing the top half of the subject. This consistency differentiates my section from the rest of the book.
I am very satisfied with how my section of the book turned out. Each picture shows a part of the subject’s personality through the word they chose and how they portray it. It complements each other section of the book, and in turn, each of those sections complement each other. I think that as individuals, we were successful in creating unique and powerful portraits, and as a group, that success is magnified because each section complements and is complemented by three other sections.