For our next assignment we will be experimenting with your photographic portraits. To this end I will ask you to do 4 experiments (one of each of these three, plus one more based on your own ideas-possibly combining facets of each of the 3-see below).:
1. Mirror/Split Face – Take a photo of yours or someone else's straight on (not from the side) and then divide it into two equal halves. Take the equal halves and combine the same half to itself to create either a left/left or right/right portrait.
2. Composite/Hockney Face – Make a face from multiple photographs or combine 2 or more people into one composite face
3. Evil Twin/Doppelganger - make your evil twin or doppleganger. Change eye color, hair color, make your face slightly wider or narrower. You can use the mirror face technique from #1 and or the composite face technique #2 in the creation of the evil/different you.
"Do you have an exact double somewhere in the world? Can a person be in two places at once? There are many intriguing accounts throughout history of people who claim to have either encountered apparitions of themselves - their doppelgangers - or have experienced the phenomenon of bilocation, being in two separate locations at the very same time"
Imagine what your twin or doppleganger would look like or combine different people into one to create new fictional person.
4. Facial Retouching – make a portrait that utilizes clone stamping, healing brush, and layer masks to alter a portrait. Use the omnipresence of retouching in magazines and the web to inform your portrait. Will it be a simple retouching of a standard portrait? Or something more?
One alteration or "mirrored face" is shown below. How did I arrive at these images?
Dan O'Connor ©2003
I took photographs of my face with half a beard and then combined the bearded half to itself and the clean-shaved side to itself. What is the result of this process? Is it merely an experiment with facial symmetry? Does the figure on the right look like a caveman? What will happen when you do this to you own face? Or a friend's face?
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1.Mirror/Split Face examples
The photographer above combined 2 left and 2 right sides of her face to make these 2 photographs. What did she do that is different?
*Notice how the hair and the extreme facial expressions add to these photographs.
Julian Wolkenstein
There is a myth, some say a science, suggesting people who have more symmetrical faces are considered more “ attractive “.
If you are made symmetrical, do you consider yourself more beautiful, less so, or is it just weird? Or is it you at all? Do you have a best side? What is to be said of left and right brain dominance?
This is a series of photographic portraits completed in 2010. The subjects were specifically cast for their individual facial features. They were photographed front to camera and in the same position. They were asked not to express emotions or character.
This initial study focusing on facial symmetry, is part of a larger piece revolving around facial features, facial proportions and facial symmetry. The term Echoism relates to fascial symmetry in its physiognomical sense.
An accompanying website and continuing project titled "Echoism" is at echoism.org
Jirí David
2.Composite/Hockney face examples
David Hockney
David Hockney
A fellow New England Institute of Art students Lindsay Nolin and Aaron Ramsey have made some portraits that use multiple photographs of faces in a way similar to what we are doing. The third row of images on Linsay Nolin's site are great examples of one person's interpretation of the "David Hockney aesthetic" or multiple photograph portrait. How will you interpret this assignment? What can you do that is different than all the images we have seen in class or shown on this blog?
Lindsay Nolin © 2008
Aaron Ramsey
3. Twins • Evil Twins and Doppelgangers • Clones
Here are a few images of twins
Mary Ellen Mark - "Twins"
Student Examples
NEiA Student - Samantha Sangermano - she swapped the mouths of her friends.
NEiA Student - Suzanne Martucci
Before manipulation = on top
After manipulation = on bottom
Shown or discussed in class:
Dove Ad
Slob Parody
South Park "Spooky Fish" : Evil Twins from a parallel universe
If they mated
New 10-09-08
"Beautification Engine" article
Beautification engine interactive slideshow
October 20, 2008 Time Magazine Cover
Facial Retouching
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