Final Piece development - Black & White Photography edits

When researching Maurizio Anzeri I discovered that he uses a mixture of old and modern work in his images. Linking back to my Igor Savchenko responses, in which I created my favourite work, I decided that I could create a mixture of modern and old photographs. As photographs weren’t as common in the early 20th century, people would treat getting their photograph taken as an occasion. So in my taken photographs I wanted to recreate the poses and gestures in my grandmothers old photographs but I then I also wanted to create less restricted photographs where the subjects mimicked the strange expressive artwork in a Dazed and Confused editorial featuring images from Photographer Richard Burbidge in June 2011. After thinking this over I decided it would be better to offset the formal poses of the old fashioned photographs with modern expressive photography. My total of around 8 images of varying sizes will be displayed in black picture frames.

 

Anzeri's Modern Work (Dazed and Confused)

 

Although I wanted to create a contrast between the old and new photographs I still desired a sense of continuity, therefore I edited my modern photographs and turned them black and white using Photoshop. When adjusting the colour levels I discovered I would make the skin pitch black by lowering the yellow pigment bar, I really liked the negative effect it created so I edited more of the photographs to varying degrees.

Black and white Levels