Whether you would call this photography or not but i was really inspired by John Stezaker's idea of borrowed images. John Stezaker much like Uta Barth really challenges what is photography. Some people would argue whether he really is a photographer as he takes images that people had already taken and then puts them together then takes a photo of them.
John Stezaker was born 1949 in England. he is most famous for his photo montage style in photography. He used photos from all different mediums to find his photos including books, magazines and postcards. usually mixing 2 famous people together to make a hybrid icon. Though he also experiment with things and people, lining up peoples faces with water falls or mountains. I think that the way that he links them together is really clever and creates a really interesting types of photography.
For this shoot i wanted to try a recreate his way of mixing two faces together. i used all diffrent mediums looking for mages online , books and magazines to try and get the same effect as he achieved. The best medium i found to make these sorts of images was the fashion and beauty magazines as it meant that you could find large faces that you could mix together. I looked through various images and got faces that matched together and making them go together so they created almost a strange, alien looking face. I had loads of fun creating these image though doing the images from magazines meant that i spent a long time going through all different types of magazines to find ones the matched up but here is my favourite one. I really like this image because it almost looks like it should go together but it doesn't. If i could improve this image i would have tried to use a man and a women to create the humorous effect that he does.
John Stezaker was born 1949 in England. he is most famous for his photo montage style in photography. He used photos from all different mediums to find his photos including books, magazines and postcards. usually mixing 2 famous people together to make a hybrid icon. Though he also experiment with things and people, lining up peoples faces with water falls or mountains. I think that the way that he links them together is really clever and creates a really interesting types of photography.
For this shoot i wanted to try a recreate his way of mixing two faces together. i used all diffrent mediums looking for mages online , books and magazines to try and get the same effect as he achieved. The best medium i found to make these sorts of images was the fashion and beauty magazines as it meant that you could find large faces that you could mix together. I looked through various images and got faces that matched together and making them go together so they created almost a strange, alien looking face. I had loads of fun creating these image though doing the images from magazines meant that i spent a long time going through all different types of magazines to find ones the matched up but here is my favourite one. I really like this image because it almost looks like it should go together but it doesn't. If i could improve this image i would have tried to use a man and a women to create the humorous effect that he does.
I took the image of the real thing and then editted it in black and white so that it fitted more with his style of work so it had the same vintage look of 'Borrowed Images'. I think this makes the images look as though they should go together and less like two separate images.
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