Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Marilyn Minter Lecture
The shoe is a painting, titled "Strut" and the image below is a photograph, titled "Satiated." 
Monday night I attended the Marilyn Minter lecture at SFAI. I was completely blown away by Minter. Her ability to realistically render in paintings is fabulous. She is both a photographer and painter, working in the idea of glamour in an unconventional sense. Her paintings show where fashion and beauty begin to disintegrate - showing beautiful women with unconventional, undesirable traits (to today's beauty media standards) such as freckles and pimples wearing pounds of glitter eyeshadow. She paints the women's faces as women paint makeup on their own faces. I was really interested in how she talked about her use of chance in photography, and never uses polaroids, because she likes a surprise. I love how she takes common Vogue-esque shots (like a woman kissing a string of pearls) and pushes it to the extreme (like a woman biting a string of pearls). I am a big fan of how she pushes boundaries in the fashion world and our comfort levels...who else would have the guts to do a photo shoot of $1000 shoes splashing around in mud?! I thoroughly enjoyed the lecture.
black and white conversion
I selected black and white conversion from the layers bar, then adjusted the different color levels. I turned cyan way up and turned blue way down.
Color changes the meaning
The top photo is the original, the second was adjusted a little with levels and saturation, then I changed the photo to black and white to change the meaning. I chose this picture because the color in the original was so striking to me and I thought taking it away would change the impact of the photo, although now that i have done it i may like it better in black and white??
phalyn
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