Luis Alvarez
Content- Luis Alvarez is an un-established photographer who I found when looking through the blogging site http://www.lucassimoes.com.br/nostalgia . His work is practically unknown, however, he has this one set of photos/idea that I found very interesting in relation to my topic. What he has done is burn and set light to a variety of photos as a metaphorical representation of discarding and destroying the memories that they hold. This process gives off a very attractive looking orange burn effect which makes each photo look uniquely antique. The reason that I wanted to do this set of photos is because I thought it would be an interesting adaption in my collection if the sub-topic in one of my contact sheets was photography itself, and therefore look at one interpretation of the affects that decay has on it.
Form- Each photo is either black and white or fairly worn down looking, giving off the impression that they are less clear and more vivid and memory derived and almost as though you could say that each photo/memory is decaying. They have been destroyed in a way that is very appealing and eye catching, yet still holds a great deal of purpose as it potentially makes it more aggressive looking in a sense. The orange and black burn marks along with the melted form of them attribute to this.
Process- For my adaptation of these photos, I will go out and take several landscape photographs of different habbitats, i.e. busy looking and overwhelming things that relates to city culture, more suburban things like houses etc, and natural and open environments like fields and parks. I will then edit each photo to make them look old or worn down, and print them via a printer with limited ink, so that the colour schemes are disrupted in each and they come off looking more distorted. Hopefully, this will add a timely and antique feel to each photo. The variety of landscapes will also represent the variety of memories that this particular person has, and the older a photo looks, the older the memory is. Once I have printed these photos, I will then burn them using natural methods, however, still keep them intact so that an audience can make out what they are. Then I'll proceed to re-photograph them against a plain background and put them back on Photoshop to edit the burn marks to make them look more appealing and add an orange/black tint to them making it more representative of the burning effect.
Content- Luis Alvarez is an un-established photographer who I found when looking through the blogging site http://www.lucassimoes.com.br/nostalgia . His work is practically unknown, however, he has this one set of photos/idea that I found very interesting in relation to my topic. What he has done is burn and set light to a variety of photos as a metaphorical representation of discarding and destroying the memories that they hold. This process gives off a very attractive looking orange burn effect which makes each photo look uniquely antique. The reason that I wanted to do this set of photos is because I thought it would be an interesting adaption in my collection if the sub-topic in one of my contact sheets was photography itself, and therefore look at one interpretation of the affects that decay has on it.
Form- Each photo is either black and white or fairly worn down looking, giving off the impression that they are less clear and more vivid and memory derived and almost as though you could say that each photo/memory is decaying. They have been destroyed in a way that is very appealing and eye catching, yet still holds a great deal of purpose as it potentially makes it more aggressive looking in a sense. The orange and black burn marks along with the melted form of them attribute to this.
Process- For my adaptation of these photos, I will go out and take several landscape photographs of different habbitats, i.e. busy looking and overwhelming things that relates to city culture, more suburban things like houses etc, and natural and open environments like fields and parks. I will then edit each photo to make them look old or worn down, and print them via a printer with limited ink, so that the colour schemes are disrupted in each and they come off looking more distorted. Hopefully, this will add a timely and antique feel to each photo. The variety of landscapes will also represent the variety of memories that this particular person has, and the older a photo looks, the older the memory is. Once I have printed these photos, I will then burn them using natural methods, however, still keep them intact so that an audience can make out what they are. Then I'll proceed to re-photograph them against a plain background and put them back on Photoshop to edit the burn marks to make them look more appealing and add an orange/black tint to them making it more representative of the burning effect.