12th October - 11th December
You are to choose an iconic photo which you are to re-create in the photographic studio. There are two musts: The reference must be evident; and you must be identifiable. It must be emphasised that this is not an exercise in Photoshop, but an exercise in photography and understanding the photographic studio.
Learning outcome : Use a variety of image making techniques and associated media.
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Different people have different passions, influences and backgrounds, and for this project I enjoyed seeing what everyone considered an iconic image.
I first came up with a few 'generic' iconic images which many people came up with. But then when I started looking into iconic images more I discovered you could have iconic in many ways. Public iconic, social icon, musical icon, artistic icon.
Here are a few of the photos which I considered recreated:
George Hoyningen
Lee Miller wearing yraid sailor cloth overalls
Marilyn Monroe
David Bailey
The Kray Twins
I really liked all the images which are above, and I particularly like the idea of being both of the characters in The Kray Twins. After deciding on the friday night before my shoot I was going to do this image, I was in WHSmiths and saw the image of Bradey and Hindley on a book cover. Straight away I really thought this would be a great image for myself to do. It is very iconic, meant I could be both characters, and was a challenge.
Bradey & Hindley
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