Research and response -Howard Schatz

Howard Schatz

In his new book, -"In Character: Actors Acting"-, acclaimed photographer Howard Schatz captures actors who are doing what they do best: acting. Schatz takes portraiture of actors into another realm altogether, by directing them in the development of specific characters.

Schatz invents the scenarios that project the emotions and display the talents of 100 of our finest stage, screen and television performers. His subjects revelled in the idea of being given "something to play" (i.e., F. Murray Abraham: "You are a teenage girl chosen to go backstage at a Justin Timberlake concert") instead of simply posing to look attractive, provocative or distinguished.

I chose Schatz to look at I was looking at change in emotion and how facial expressions display these different emotions and how these emotions are captured. I like the way the characters faces are put next to each other in order to show this. I think is this is a really interesting way to show the development of emotion.

My Response

 

This is my response to the Schatz I chose to take the same emotions from one of his pictures and use them on my own model and to see the difference in how they would present this emotion. I thought my response was successful as I definitely think it conveys the same emotions as Schatz. I edited my response on Photoshop in order to put her different expressions beside each other. I also edited my photo to black and white as I didn't want the distraction of colours for my views. If I were to improve I would so some more shoots with different models in order to develop this idea further and see if I can come up with some story lines for them.