Assessment
Shizuka Yokomizo - Openings
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- What can you see?
- What kind of picture is it?
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- How do you think Created the image?
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- How does the picture male you feel?
- if you could talk to the artist, what 3 questions would you ask
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- How does some basic research help you understand the picture and the artist's practice? How does your understanding of the picture change/improve?
- How does this picture relate to the theme openings?
This image consists of a man in what looks to be a bedroom he seems to be on a old phone perhaps a house phone/landline looking out of what I would assume is a window. The room he is in has a sort of old theme with the wallpaper pattern and red colour along side the pictures hung on the wall reflecting this. The light seems to be a ceiling light and it looks to be uneven in its distribution with most of it seeming to come from the right side of the room leaving a slight darkness and shadow on the left especially behind the objects such as the glass or the door. The image doesn't have much going on in regards to colour as even the red that is show in the image is quite dull which may contribute to the atmosphere of the image. This images belongs to the portraiture genre although it may not seem as such as in most portraits you would expect to see a close up shot of the subject where as this one the photographer, Shizuka Yokomizo, gives use a more zoomed out view of the subject and his surroundings. The front of the image is quite dark but it gets slightly lighter throughout the image, I feel like its possible that after capturing the image Shizuka Yokomizo could have edited the image to give it the look it has, possibly by adding a filter or reducing the images brightness on a software such as photoshop or something similar to it there is also a possibility that this was done on a set rather than in a real house for example making it easier for the lighting and look of the image to be controlled by the photographer allowing it to come out the way it did but I feel that is the least likely of the two as the image seems too real and the man in the image seems too comfortable to be on a set/staged. I do feel like lighting was an important aspect of this image as I don't think it would have the same effect and atmosphere if the lighting was done differently. The image is quite strange in the sense that the image has a feel that it is both staged and authentic like the way the man is dressed and the environment he is in seems to be very authentic but the way he looks straight down the camera makes it seem as if it is staged.
When looking at the image it makes me question certain things I feel like if I could ask Shizuka Yokomizo three questions about her photography I would ask her about the inspiration behind her work why she takes the photos she does of the people she does I would ask...
The research from the article let me know about...
she would write letters to people as a way of gaining subjects for her images this is what they said 'Dear Stranger, I am an artist working on a photographic project which involves people I do not know…I would like to take a photograph of you standing in your front room from the street in the evening. A camera will be set outside the window on the street. If you do not mind being photographed, please stand in the room and look into the camera through the window for 10 minutes on __-__-__ (date and time)…I will take your picture and then leave…we will remain strangers to each other…If you do not want to get involved, please simply draw your curtains to show your refusal…I really hope to see you from the window.'
When looking at the image it makes me question certain things I feel like if I could ask Shizuka Yokomizo three questions about her photography I would ask her about the inspiration behind her work why she takes the photos she does of the people she does I would ask...
The research from the article let me know about...
she would write letters to people as a way of gaining subjects for her images this is what they said 'Dear Stranger, I am an artist working on a photographic project which involves people I do not know…I would like to take a photograph of you standing in your front room from the street in the evening. A camera will be set outside the window on the street. If you do not mind being photographed, please stand in the room and look into the camera through the window for 10 minutes on __-__-__ (date and time)…I will take your picture and then leave…we will remain strangers to each other…If you do not want to get involved, please simply draw your curtains to show your refusal…I really hope to see you from the window.'