Project Inspiration

Project Inspiration came far and few for me. From little hints to whole projects based around work from other artists. I believe no work is truly original, someone somewhere will have likely done something similar to you before. Without predecessors however Inspiration can never really emerge.

 

Australian artist Michael Pederson makes street art in public areas of Sydney.

Michael Pederson 1

 

In an article posted on thisiscolossal.com Christopher Jobson writes about Pedersons work. In this he says “Pederson makes use of pre-existing elements like park benches or abandoned furniture to share messages meant to snap a viewer out of their daily routine and see the world from a more contemplative or even childlike perspective”

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/10/sydney-street-signs/

Michael Pederson 4Michael Pederson 2

 

This artist gave me massive inspiration for the first project. Pedersons work includes quirky art in the form of signs put in places that would turn the heads of any passerby’s.

Tumblr -http://miguelmarquezoutside.com/

Michael Pederson 3

This photo in particular influenced my third image of the Appropriation project, using the “mind the school children sign” in a way that almost personifies it’s meaning

 

In an post on boredpanda.com 3 brothers tried to recreate photos from their childhood as a surprise gift for their mother. Whilst not artists in their own right they single handedly gave me the idea my portraiture project.

Three Brothers Recreate Their Weirdest Childhood Photos As A Gift For Their Mom

http://www.demilked.com/brothers-childhood-photo-recreation-christmas-calendar-gift/ (same story, different site)

brothers 1

brothers 2

 

brothers 2-2

 

Other examples of people doing the same things can be shown below:

example 1

Two Brothers Recreated Their Childhood Photos For Parents’ Wedding Anniversary

 

example 2

Two Brothers Hilariously Re-Create Their Childhood Photos As A Gift For Their Mother

 

example 3

We Recreated Childhood Photos As Christmas Gift For Our Ailing Mother

 

Richard Avedon was an absolute master of portraiture photography. Working at Vogue for over 20 years he sculpted his career as both a fashion and a portraiture photographer. Photographing high profile and famous people his portfolio is huge taking photos of people such as Andy Warhol, Harper Lee and the Beatles. In his obituary (seen in the new york times) it says “his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America’s image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century”. Nothing says that more than his “Western Project” where instead of photographing people that others know worldwide he photographed ordinary people living their lives in small rural communities.

AvedonInTheAmericanWest

Avedon’s work is inspiring to all portraiture photographers as he really brings out the spirit and human emotion in his subjects. Especially with my Portraiture project where I had to photograph strangers on the street. There is no need to direct, add makeup, change the location or change the subjects clothing. You photograph them for who they really are, let them express themselves in their own way.

http://www.avedonfoundation.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Avedon

 

 

 

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