PSYCHE-Project proposal for a shoot

PSYCHE

A VISUAL REVEALATION

The project

CONCEPT

A shoot including 3 portrait photographs of three different people and 2 object photographs of 2 things that they share in common.

The project aims at capturing the “Psyche� or personality of the subjects with the help of distinguished colors and lighting techniques to highlight the dominant aspect of their personality.

The difference in their personalities and the similarities in the objects for which they share common interests is what brings stark contrast between the three subjects while still binding them together with those two objects.

Inspiration

ART MOVEMENT

MINIMALISM An art movement that developed in the United States in the late 1950s and reached its peak in the mid to late 1960s. It focuses on basic elements.

Minimalism was also a reaction to the most prominent style of art pursued in the 1950s, Abstract Expressionism, in which the art conveyed multiple meanings of intense emotion, ideas, feelings and was sometimes created in spontaneous or unplanned ways. Minimalism is characterized by precise, hard-edged, geometric forms, with rigid planes of colour pigment typically utilizing cool hues or maybe just one colour.

What inspired me?

Renowned minimalist “Dan Flavin” gave minimalism a whole new perspective. Utilizing fluorescent light tubing, he created light installations (or “situations” as he preferred to call them) that became icons of Minimalism. Flavin’s wall- and floor-mounted, site-specific fixtures, composed of intersecting and parallel lines of light in conventional colours, is what inspired me to play with colors and use them as a tool to depict a visual story.

His works

DAN FLAVIN

Inspiration

PHOTOGRAPHER

ANNIE LEIBOVITZ A celebrated American photographer best known for her engaging celebrity portraiture. Adept at capturing her subject’s personality and inner life, her images capture intimate or staged moments that reveal the playful and expressive aspects of her sitters. Her signature style is crisp and well lighted.

Equipped with a keen ability to capture the most recognizable faces in the world in an intimate manner, photographer Annie Leibovitz offers a rare glimpse of vulnerability of these powerful people to viewers, and her images are as iconic as her subjects.

Through her unmistakable photographic style, viewers can view influential and compelling leaders in a seemingly approachable light.

Her works

ANNIE LEIBOVITZ

Implementation

IN SHOOT

Aspects of inspirations to be implemented in the shoot:

Dan Flavin

Annie Leibovitz

• Lighting technique • Use of hues to depict personality • Minimalistic arranges of lights

• Style of portraiture • Depiction of personality through visuals

MINIMALIST

PHOTOGRAPHER

Reference images

PHOTOSHOOT

by

SRISHTI KUNDU

FC GRP ‘A’