Friday 8 October 2010

More Wolleh!

Just found a website with lots more Wolleh images on, loving them! Some are colour too, interesting! http://www.lothar-wolleh.de/english/index_art_1eng.htm


Plantage Worker 1, Spain (c.1973)

Plantage Worker 3, Spain (c.1973)
Field Worker, USSR (no date)
Plantage Worker, Spain (c.1973)


All images from his 'People of Labour' series.


Again you can see the way he has carefully composed the images into vertical and horizontal thirds, framing the subject into the enviroment of the portrait. For exampe with the plantage worker images he has carefully framed the worker within his work (the tree behind them). With the image of the field worker he has not framed her but instead whats interesting is the way the trees behind the lady almost mimic the shape of her and her head-dress.


More black and white images I've come across:


Wosgen I, Katholicos of Armenian-Georgian Church, USSR (1969)
Monk, in Russian-Orthadox Cloister at Sagors, USSR (1969)

Cardinal before St. Peter's Basilica, Rome (c.1962-65)

Franciscan Monk, St. Peter's Basilica, Rome (c.1962-65)
Priest, Portugal (1969)

Simular to this after thinking I want to create framed portraits of one person but change the reality of each image. Almost like different characters in a film or book except each image shall be the same person, dressed differently and in a different enviroment. The idea being that any person can look at the images and make their own reality but they will not infact know which is the true reality of the body of work. The work should make people assume which is something that many people do these days too quickly. It takes something like 3 minutes to judge a person roughly and this judgment usually will make you decide whether that person is going to be a potential friend, enemy or just nothing and its all thanks to human fear and a lot of us fear everything but mainly the fact of the unknown. By looking and judging someone without talking to them is fear, fear to go and introduce yourself. I want my project to teach me how to compose images as carefully as Wolleh but also to show a series of enviromental portraits which confused and make the viewer think about. I plan on changing each image through costume, style, props and enviroment.


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