Richard Avedon's work is centred around portraiture. He photographs celebrities and used different types of body language and facial expressions to exert a certain level of power on the audience.This portrait of power shows a former governor of California; Ronald Reagan. The way he is photographed allows him to exert a level of power over the audience. Also, when combined with the context of who the person is, an even higher level of power is portrayed.
The image is in black and white and was shot in a studio with artificial lighting. The image was composed so that the model's waist up was in frame. The model fills up a majority of the space in frame.
My Work
To take this image I took inspiration from Avedon's work and altered it so that it had a personal twist to the image.This image does not exert as much over over the audience as Avedon's does and this may be because of the context of both images. The model is a student simply smiling into the camera. This body language seems very relaxed as his hands are behind his back. This doesn't exert as much power as it could exert. A low level of power is portrayed because of the context and the composition.
This image is in colour and was shot in a studio with artificial lighting. The model fills up a majority of the frame.
How They Link
These two images link in a multitude of ways. The first way is the way that it is composed. By looking at the image it is obvious that they look similar despite their colour difference - They both contain a male figure and are both shot from the waist up. There is also a plain background on both images. Furthermore, the way that both of these images were taken was the same. They were taken in a studio with artificial light boxes poised onto the subject. Finally, they both exert power. Even though the level of power is different in both images, there is still a level of power within them.
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