Project 4: Re-Creating Film Stills-Image Bank

MIRJANA VRBASKI
Mirjana Vbraski is a Serbian photographer, who currently lives in Den Haag, the Netherlands. She was born in Canada and grew up in Serbia since 2008. She studied English literature at the university of Guelph, Canada. Now, she works at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague, the Netherlands. She has won many awards including, national portrait gallery and best four entries at shortlist.
I chose this image because it was one of the main pictures that she talked about that day. She told us about how she got to cast this model and her general way of shooting. In this picture, you can see how she set the lighting from the shadows on the model's face. I really like how the portrait itself seems very mysterious, yet very original.

POLLY CHANDLER
Polly Chandler is an American photographer, who is famous for her unique portrait style. Her pictures show "the personality of her subjects through selective backgrounds and the use of large formats." She began as a graphic designer but ended up with photography.

I chose this picture because all of Polly Chandler's photographs seem like they are film photographs. Even though I am not sure if they are actually film photographs, she edits her photographs to seem like black and white film photos. Unlike our project, this picture uses natural light and depth of field.

RICHARD MURAI
Richard Murai is a Japanese photographer, born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He now teaches photograph in Northern California and he is known for shooting the world's sacred sites, such as Peru, Turkey, Egypt, Russia and Asia. Unlike the process for our project, he uses film as practice shots and turns to digital photography for final prints.

I chose this picture because from all of Murai's pictures, this seemed the most like a film photograph. I am pretty sure that this is a digital photograph as Murai uses digital photography as final prints. This picture also uses natural light and since it is black and white, it seems more moody.

DAVID BAILEY

David Bailey is a British photographer, born and raised in England. He became an assitant at the John French studio before being contracted as a fashion photographer for Vogue magazine in 1960. He rose to fame in the 1960s and since then, has shot for many magazines, such as Rolling Stones and GQ Magazine. He apparently prefers film photograph instead of digital because of the photographs' quality.

I chose this picture because I liked the composition of the picture. The edges look like this picture is lomo and the fact that it is sepia makes the photograph look more official. Just like the pictures above, I am not sure if this is a film photograph because it seems like a digital photograph.