New Photos group 1

Here is a slide show of some of the photographs I have been working on. I am working with a similar format to the way the video interstitial was shot and looking at the ways that still photographs may function using the graphical core elements of pose, gesture, and gaze. Right now these seem very intense as the mood and tone have been punched up in order to make the images slightly more disturbing without going too far over board.- Well, I can't seem to get the slideshow to show up here, so instead its all the way at the bottom.








I have also been musing on the imagery that comes to mind of the promotional photographs of old boxers. There is something that I find interesting about the nature of such images as they are posed so as to infer the action that has the potential to take place with in the ring. My photographs seem to be more aggressive but also have this staged- posed- performed action quality. Some of the photographs seem to be almost like posed portraits, others like gestural body studies, while the series bears out the progression of shaving. Here are some examples of such old photos- they also seem to focus on the head and shoulders as well as hands. My interest in such may be simply about the portrayal of aggression(particularly in the face/eyes) but also the sports photograph in general in regards to the highlighting of a moment through a still image.