These are my top three images:
I like the last one best, although truthfully I'm unhappy with all of them. Also, I think the negatives were filthy when I scanned them.
My next choice was Walde Huth's series "One Hundred Unwritten Letters". For some reason I can't find any images online, but they're basically dreamy, soft, colour photos of light coming in through various partially shuttered/curtained windows.
Here are my versions:
I prefer the first. Again, my negatives were all dirty.
I haven't decided on my third option yet.
I prefer the third mirror image as well. In general I'm not a fan of feet photos, but by removing my sense of grounding the image becomes an optical illusion. At first I read it as one contorted foot, and then two feet together which made no sense at all, and then I finally understood the reality of the positioned feet. What made this interesting was that I knew something wasn't right and I had to spend time looking at the image to figure it out. Why feet?
ReplyDeleteI'm not familiar with "One Hundred Unwritten Letters". But the image I find most compelling is the second of the window. The curtain looks like paper. Have you thought of your third image yet?
Thanks, in that one I was trying to create confusion between the mirror image and the "real" image. I chose feet because on the one hand, they are the opposite of the face (used in Newton's), but they also have connotations of sexuality and sexual deviance (the foot fetish is one of the most common fetishes), which goes along with the fetish tone of Newton's image. Also, I like feet.
ReplyDeleteI might choose a different window image; I rescanned the negatives over break and some of them look a lot better than I thought they would.
For my third choice I'm doing Peter Keetman's disorienting-macro style. I've shot a roll for that but haven't developed it yet. I plan to have all three contact sheets to show you on Tuesday.
The mirror really grounds the images of the feet. I think if you could remove the edge of the frame through cropping, or re-shooting it would become more confusing and abstract.
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