Brendan's Work by Minwoo Lee

This photograph is very well represented and reproduced from the original image. This photograph really has the essence of the original photograph and carries conceptual interplay into consideration. This photograph also seems to have the idea of retracing of historical elements into modern context.

Firstly this photograph has a women with a lit cigarette on her lips with smokes blending into the background. The model is wearing a bra with a fur coat that is draping down under her shoulder. The original photograph looks fifties hollywood fashion, and is carried out in the same theme to the reproduced image. The reproduced photograph carries the same mood, textures, lighting and details. The mood created by the lighting is very well carried out; especially with the colors and the details in the texture of the background. The background has grains and scratches that are similar to the original photograph. Small details in the lighting, texture and props are reproduced very well, but in a more modern sense. The smoke could look more real if it is more distinctly connected to the cigarette, but it still is very well represented. There are some aspects like the tattoo and the hair that is represented in the original photograph, but it seems to relate conceptually in relation of modern beauty and the fifties beauty.

Firstly Brendan was really interested in the idea of editing and the challenges of reproducing the fifties essence into modern context. The photograph is shot on a seamless studio with soft box directly lighting the portrait with a hot light slightly lighting the side of the portrait. The smoke in the cigarette is created in photoshop and the idea of creating a smoke from a unlit cigarette really interests me in the idea that social standards and cultures changed throughout history, and how it is literally retracing the historical content on the original photograph.

Conceptually this photograph seems to be relating historical fashion photograph and how it has evolved into modern fashion photography. The reproduced image has a model with a more modern hair style with a tattoo on her shoulder, which represents how historically feminism and fashion walked on the same evolution. This photograph seems to have the conceptual feeling of modern culture and modern fashion directly relating to fifties hollywood fashion. Even though the props and clothes are nearly similar, a single tattoo and the hair style really brings up the modern essence to the table.

Throughout modern fashion, historical fashion is brought up in industries. The connection of historical essence really brings the connection with the general audience to their own experience of historical context. This photograph is a homage to historical fashion and how it is directly related to modern culture.

There are a lot of photographs that are a homage to historical content that are incorporated in modern context. This photograph very well could be one of the photograph that represents the idea of re-representing a historical content in a modern context. Conceptually this photograph is retracing and pulling the historical elements into modern photography.