woah! this is hella cool. i just loive the blank stare you have on. very nicley done. i alos like how your glasses frame the photo, your forehead and chin do too. its very good. and the horizontal shades of light and dark, what are thoes caused by? was the light coming in thru some blinds or something?
This self-portrait would be placed in the interpretive category of Barrett’s system for sorting photographs. It is definitely in the “directorial mode” – since it “would not have occurred had the photographer not made it happen”. Many details have been carefully managed in the composition of this image. Lines manipulate and fragment the face. The gaze directly acknowledges the camera from behind the barrier of the glasses. The decision to display the image in black and white plays up the harshness of the shadows created by the overhead light source. All these design choices, plus the title, lead the viewer to the conclusion that the subject is mentally or emotionally being involuntarily restrained.
woah! this is hella cool. i just loive the blank stare you have on. very nicley done. i alos like how your glasses frame the photo, your forehead and chin do too. its very good. and the horizontal shades of light and dark, what are thoes caused by? was the light coming in thru some blinds or something?
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This self-portrait would be placed in the interpretive category of Barrett’s system for sorting photographs. It is definitely in the “directorial mode” – since it “would not have occurred had the photographer not made it happen”. Many details have been carefully managed in the composition of this image. Lines manipulate and fragment the face. The gaze directly acknowledges the camera from behind the barrier of the glasses. The decision to display the image in black and white plays up the harshness of the shadows created by the overhead light source. All these design choices, plus the title, lead the viewer to the conclusion that the subject is mentally or emotionally being involuntarily restrained.
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