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Joel Peter Witkin was born September 13, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York. He is an American photographer who currently lives in New Mexico. He worked as a war photographer between 1961 and 1964 during the Vietnam war. In 1967, he decided to work as a freelance photographer and became City Walls Inc. official photographer. Later, he attended Cooper Union in New York where he studied sculpture and became Bachelor of Arts in 1974. After the Columbia University granted him a scholarship, he ended his studies at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where he became Master of Fine Arts. His photos often deal with death and physically deformed people. He claims that his inspiration came from witnessing a car accident in front of his house when he was little.
Original:
The Beginning of Fashion in Paris
Your image is much softer than the original. Much more about beauty, life and femininity than the original. Love the lace! Nice work.
ReplyDeleteYou took a much more elegant approach to your recreation and it's really interesting. It's pretty amazing how the lighting you used really softened the entire image when compared to the original.
ReplyDeleterecreation of the original lighting and tonality is great. texture in both the mannequin and background works well.
ReplyDeletewow! They look very similar.. Nice job with the lighting. Similar, but different backgrounds are nice.
ReplyDeleteI like your recreation. His is more creepy and yours is more beautiful. The lighting is really good. If I understand correctly, that thing is supposed to be an arm? I would maybe have included a little more in the surrounding scene because I couldn't tell that it was supposed to be a part of the subject and not the background.
ReplyDeleteThe idea looks cool and I think that your photo talks more on the soft/cute side of Fashion and the original one is more crude and powerful.
ReplyDeleteI think that's due the textures they use (the mannequin looks battered on the original one). I think they both might work also conceptually on ideas on women and sexuality.
The background of this image works really well,very textured. I also like the new way you created the arms and made the image look much more feminine, contrasting the masculine look of the photo by Witkin
ReplyDeleteI like how you kept the maore natural lighting feel. I also believe you put a contemporary feel to it. I also like how the head is the knobby thing.
ReplyDeleteI've always wondered what it would be like to be a mannequin...life would be simple...no work...sweet clothes...people looking at me...no bills...hell yeah! You should do a whole series on the life of mannequin's!
great lighting. i like how the extreme lighting angle of the original is recreated as a physical sheet in your recreation.
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The original is more architectural, and your recreation is much more feminine. From the light to the shapes of the lace and the dummy, everything is very soft and pretty. A great contrast to the sharpness of the original image.
ReplyDeleteLook really similar each other but I like your background setting more than original. Nice angle and nice shot with good contrast. Seems like your recreation is the new mannequin that people really want to use it but the original photo tells that no one want to use that mannequin because it's old and dirty.... just making sad story of mannequin ^^ good work~
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