Wednesday, February 27, 2013

self portrait research

Some of you remember I started a self portrait series back in the day, right after I got out of college.  It was titled "To Scare My Mother".  It was awesome [smile].  And something I'm still pretty proud of.

So I've decided to revisit the idea of another self portrait series.  In college I studied Cindy Sherman who did a series of awesome self portraits back in the day.  And I figure, although my friend pool is growing up here in the bend, I still don't have a ton of people who would feel comfortable having me photograph them.  So, I'm comfortable in front of the camera, and I have time right now to do awesome photo/art things... so why not!

I'm mainly going to focus on things that are a bit out there, and more unique than the hum drum portraits [I can take an awesome portrait, what I want to take is an awesomely AWESOME artsy ART portrait].  In my research [pinterest, you are so ever helpful in this!] I've found, however, google apparently thinks "Glamour Portraits", really means topless chicks with giant boobs... wtf.

I realize nudity is all over the art scene, and I TOTALLY appreciate the figure and nudes... but "glamour" does not freakin mean nude!

Meh.

End of rant.

I'm sure I'll share eventually when I get one or two done.  I'm thinking I need to start out easy, and then work my way up.

Here are my "To Scare My Mother" series:





-mrp-

ps: everytime I write a blog... or really anything... I have to go back and erase like, at least two or three "that" or "that's".  Thank the Lord one of my mentors senior year in high school pointed out how often and ridiculously I use that stupid word :).

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