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Artist Models: Amy Friend and Jim Goldberg

Key features -

Amy Friend

Punctured images (manipulation)

Lighting

Found imagery

Jim Goldberg

Black and white

Experimental photography

Handwriting

Social documentary

Examples of their work:

Ideas

I am redoing Amy Friend as an artist model, this time in the studio at school. I want to try different lighting and colours to play around with what the end result will look like. I also want to have a go at using Jim Goldberg as an artist model, specifically his "Rich and Poor" series. I will get my model to handwrite this so that it has a similar feel to the artist model. 

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Best Images

Evaluation

What worked? - I really like the illusion of the punctured images and experimented with outlining my images with holes or filling in the subject so that people cant be seen. My Amy Friend photos worked a lot better than my Jim Goldberg attempt, but this is because the dull/yellow tinged lighting works better for her style.

What didn't, how could this be improved? - Like I said above, my Jim Goldberg attempt was too yellow. A lot of my photos were also shaky or blurry. If I were to redo this, I would use a different light and possibly a tripod. 

What are you going to do next time to extend your idea? - Some of my photos remind me of Ngahuia Harrison's work and projecting images. I want to use her as an artist model for my next shoot to further extend my idea and not get caught up trying to use the same artist models. 

Artist Model - Jim Goldberg

This is not work I did in a photoshoot, however I have included a photo of it on my board. For this, I printed out a photo of my nana that I would be using throughout the board, and asked my model to write her orbituary underneath to resemble Jim Goldbergs' "Rich and Poor" series. I also chose to photoshop the initials out of the image as I felt it didn't match with the context of the image.