Along with the high emotions Arbus’s
work, a number of images that have stood out are those from Robert
Mapplethorpe. Known for his high stylised, black and white photography of nude
male and female models and portraits, he started taking photographs soon after
dropping out on a degree of graphic arts using a Polaroid camera. Mapplethorpe
died at an early age due to AIDS, before his death he set up a Foundation to
promote his work and the causes he cared about and this has been extremely
successful.
(The photographs that are above are
examples of Mapplethorpe’s work, these particular images you can see the motion
which makes it ghostly and could possibly be a good effect for some of the images
created to go in the book.)
From Mapplethorpe I would like to try and take away the idea of a ghostly smear as it creates a good atmosphere in the image and adds to the concept of death and being slightly spooky along with being creative at the same time.
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