Saturday, 23 March 2013

2. Artist Appreciation - Bela Borsodi


Once again I admire the styling of Borsodi's photographs, especially with their use of colour, which will be my main inspiration from these photographs for my own shoots and styling. I really like how the stylist has used the three primary colours for the first photograph and then keeping it simple and not going over the top by just using too many colours within the frame.

I love how Borsodi, has used a vibrant yellow for the background of the photograph. I really like this in studio photographs when the photographer uses a different colour other than white. I think this can either work well or not, and I think it is up to the stylist of the shoot to make it work well, as they need to find items that will either harmonize with the colour or create a striking and interesting contrast that will make the viewers want to look at, rather than turn their heads. The reason why I like the coloured background is because the majority of the time, a fashion photographer will either use a white or black background, depending on the lighting style or a location. I understand that it is very hard to use another coloured background for low key lighting other than black, as the coloured background would simply not show.

I think the stylist that has styled this photograph has placed the patent leather shoe as a tongue in cheek remark to the theme of these photographs, as it comes across to me as if the woman had forgotten to put on her shoe before she was stuck inside the wall. I don’t think there is a specific subject or narrative to these photographs other than to sell the items that have been placed within the themes. However it does convey some form of surrealism, almost something that Dali would create.


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