Looking into strange experimental studio work (prosthetics and gags)
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I've been doing classes in the arts for the past 2 or so years at various community colleges. so far black and white film photography is the one that's really stuck out for me so i want to expand my horizons a little and, well, [I]kick it up a few notches[/I].
My main inspirations are bizarre and macabre artists as well as those few deadpan ones (really the only modern deadpan one i respect is don herzfeldt).
one photographer who inspired me a great deal made these incredibly macabre/hellish and/or distressing arrangements. i feel like an idiot for drawing a blank on his name but someone here might know who i'm talking about. most if not all the photos i've seen printed by him are in black and white as well. also this guy is one of the "masters", at least i'm pretty sure about that anyways.
What i'm trying to do here is take completely mundane arrangements and give them tones (subtones and overtones, i dunno which one i like better because so far i've been more of a candid shooter, so i'm experimenting here) of macabre and surreal-ness. quite possibly a hell on earth feeling, whereas the work i'm inspired by feels more like its in hell than on earth.
So all of the long unnecessary introductory part of this OP out of the way i'll get straight to business. i want to find out more about prosthetics for use in studio arrangements with human models. the first gag i want to try is a "faceless" prosthetic. I'd also like to find out what this macabre photographer's name is again so i can really study his work with what i have in my mind right now.
in the end what i want is to have a giant pile of props, gags (as they call them in the professional world. i am not referring to anything kinky, specifically anyways) and ideas sitting there on the studio floor in various containers and notebooks and go for a marathon session with a real champ of a model (i have a few in mind). i want to stockpile every concept that sounds right for this creative direction i'm going and just let loose in the studio. i feel like i can find another part of myself artistically if i do this.
literally i want to carry a big box with a bunch of fake limbs to school one day. i want to know more about these specific techniques. and if anyone here has trouble getting any clarity out of this post i can probably help make things more clear. i have this vision and i want to realize it in real life. i just need some how to sites and information about making these kinds of surreal, hellish shots so i can learn everything i can about that, then inject my own ideas into that inspiration.
also in addition to my 35mm and the giant howitzer studio camera i will be using a pinhole camera. i have a very good feeling about this.
Hmm I remember slippery q posted something about a guy who created cameras with human parts, he took photos like what you are describing
i think he's been described as the bosch of photography.
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