Vivian Meyer
My Image
Both myself and Meyer have implemented reflection in our images in order to focus on the photographic medium of self portraiture.
I feel that my image has aesthetic similarities to that of Meyer's work such as the way in which the images are both in black and white and the way in which multiple subject's are visible in the images. The largest similarity between both pieces is the use of reflection in order to create a self portrait and I find this effect intriguing.
Meyer's work also has a great deal of differences to my work which are largely a result of the fact that our images were taken with different available resources. Meyer's photography options were limited due to the fact that she was a photographer from the 1900's this meant that her images had to undergo the rigorous process of dark room photography which was both time consuming and expense as she has to rely on film. On the other hand I as a modern day photographer am free to experiment with a multitude of different techniques such as post shoot editing which is where I was able to add my black and white filter opposed to it occurring in development like Meyer.
If I were to revisit my pastiche of Meyer's work I may look into using a film camera and developing the images in a dark room in order to better grasp the process in which she undertook to achieve her images. I would also consider attempting to remove my camera from the image through positioning as this is something which she has done.
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