Fall Series 4: Nathan Lyons
I am basing my project on Nathan Lyons' photos. His visual recipe is: odd subjects out of their natural habitat, dark and urban backgrounds, shadows, and black and white. What make his photos have a general theme of oddness are how most of his subjects he takes pictures are usually out of context and out of place. His photos never featured or showed any "real" person, but could have featured "not real" or "fake" people. A "real" person is a direct picture of a living person, while a "not real" or "fake" person could be a physical copy of an image of someone, or a mannequin. There wasn't really anything "living" in his photos. He did this in order to create an isolated feel to his images, as a photo with no "real" human face makes the viewer feel secluded. For this series, I tried to emphasis the theme of isolation.
I feel like I tied this series pretty well together by creating a theme of isolation, most shown in the pictures of dim garages, as well as the pictures of mannequins. The only way I think I could've made my series more cohesive is by trying to make some of my light photos more dark in order to have a common dark theme.
I am basing my project on Nathan Lyons' photos. His visual recipe is: odd subjects out of their natural habitat, dark and urban backgrounds, shadows, and black and white. What make his photos have a general theme of oddness are how most of his subjects he takes pictures are usually out of context and out of place. His photos never featured or showed any "real" person, but could have featured "not real" or "fake" people. A "real" person is a direct picture of a living person, while a "not real" or "fake" person could be a physical copy of an image of someone, or a mannequin. There wasn't really anything "living" in his photos. He did this in order to create an isolated feel to his images, as a photo with no "real" human face makes the viewer feel secluded. For this series, I tried to emphasis the theme of isolation.
I feel like I tied this series pretty well together by creating a theme of isolation, most shown in the pictures of dim garages, as well as the pictures of mannequins. The only way I think I could've made my series more cohesive is by trying to make some of my light photos more dark in order to have a common dark theme.
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