Tuesday 5 April 2011

The more abstract editorials such as I.D, Dazed and Confused, believe themselves to be more than fashion photography and more image makers, using more abstract photographers, some being fine art based pushing new and varied stylistic approaches as to what most high end photographers would use. Stylists have their own language and identity in which they bring to the shoot or campaign. For example, in figure one (Dazed and Confused), this image denotes two females, one on each page on a double page spread in Dazed and Confused magazine, although each female is on separate page this is still a strong connection and relationship between them when being presented along side one another to the viewer. This is because all, if not most of their face is masked. Black and white is only used in the entire shoot, one model being styled in black and the other styled in white. This idea, a conscious metaphor, is put into place perhaps to provoke the idea of good and bad. This in itself provokes a narrtive theme as such conventions are always found in narrative as a whole. There is always a good character and an evil charcter. Not only this but we tend to associate the ‘good’ as being white and angelic as opposed to the ‘evil’ whom we’d normally associate with blacks or reds, colours that typically connote bad things or danger.

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