11.16.2009

David Hockney Response

Here is my photo montage image in the style of David Hockney. To create this I took a series of photos of one subject (in this case my front door) and combined them all in photo shop to create one larger image. Then I merged all my layers to only one layer and adjusted Levels and Hue and Saturation.

I liked this image however I feel as if there is not an obvious link between all my pieces. I will redo this joiner picture with a full body portrait of a person, each image reflecting again on my idea of the conflict of the natural and unnatural world, and 'changing landscapes'. Then I will compose and edit it in photoshop, trying to reflect the style of Hannah Hoch like in my photo montage.

For this joiner photomontage I did as I said above, and took a series of photos to compose a full body portrait of a person, and another two series for landscapes reflect natural and unnatural world to be the background. Then to reflect the cutout style of Hannah Hoch I printed the composed joiner of a person, cut it out, maintaining the abstract joiner shape, and then I retook a photo of this and put it back on the image in photoshop. This meant that the person looked lower quality, as if from a newspaper photo (reflecting Hannah Hoch) and stood out against the variety of backgrounds. I separated the two sides of the backgrounds so that natural world was on one side, and unnatural on the other. In photoshop I gave the layer with the person a halftone pattern, to reflect newspaper print (like Hoch used) and colored the two sides of the landscapes appropriately. Red for unnatural, green for natural. These colors are also complementary.


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