Float
Saturday, September 27th, 2008I’ve been meaning to post these up for a while now, but just keep, well, forgetting.
This is a series that I did for the final assessment task of my Photography 3 class. The brief was very loose - take photos with a person or people in them.
I was interested in using fast shutter speeds to create photographs of motion suspended. I wanted a sense of surrealism, of capturing a seemingly banal moment - but with a quirk. I was aiming for photographs that revealed something new on second glance. I feel I’ve achieved this with a few in the series, but not all. I’ll let you decide.
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Inspiration came in the form of Rosemary Laing (recommended by my tutor Karen Mork) and Philippe Halsman.
Laing’s photograph of a bride jumping over the blue mountains is breathtaking. This is part of her Flight Research series.
Flight Research #5
Halsman was a photographer for Life in the 40s and 50s, and is the father of ‘jumpology‘. He believed that in a jump, the subject cannot control their facial muscles, hence revealing a ‘truer’ expression. He’s surreal photo of Salvador Dali leaping is a work of genius, I have never seen (and doubt I will ever see) anything quite like it.
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Dali Atomicus
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This is Float.
