Artifact - Sexuality and Identity Photoshoot

Arfifact

This is the bra I produced for my photoshoot.

I bought a plain black bra which I then added black lace, rope, ribbon and fabric too. 

Gary Hume Exhibition held at Leeds Art Gallery

English painter, draughtsman and printmaker Gary Hume emerged as one of the leading figures of the group of young artists working in London in the 1990s. Hume is known for figurative and abstract paintings on aluminum panels, which often feature startling color combinations made with paints purchased premixed from a hardware store. His glossy, popular imagery captured and defined a zeitgeist, at a time when the art scene was becoming increasingly professionalised and implicated with the popular media.

Water Painting, 1999

Gary Hume, ‘Two Girls,’ (2009)

Four Doors (1) 1989/1990 Oil on four panels 239 x 594 cm

EVOLUTION OF UNDERWEAR EXHIBITON

Below are images of underwear i found of interest when i visited the 'Evolution of Underwear' exhibition in London a couple of years ago.

 

Underwear

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Artifact

I will be looking at Sexuality and Identity on this project. Im interested in the way a woman's body is used and portrayed in photography. My final outcomes will be photography and producing a set of underwear, that will then be used in the photo shoot.

Identity & Sexuality

Eva gii by Timmothy Lee

Transgender model Andrej Pejic

Andrej Pejic is a slender, spectacularly beautiful blonde, a softly spoken 19-year-old. His look is the effeminate opposite of the handsome, ripped male models, and is part of a new breed of model that the media are calling the ‘femiman’ - the gender-neutral face of now. As the icon of the fashion season, his extreme androgyny reflects a change in societal values, where multiple lifestyles and sexualities are explored.

Social/Cultural Mindmap



Gender, Sexuality & Identity

''Men were deemed rational and educatable; women were irrational, sentimental, and uneducatable. Dress became an expression of these two different modes of gender-specific behavior. Men began to wear more dour clothing. They gave up makeup and highly ornamented clothing and heels. Those accoutrements became signifiers of femininity—especially the high heel, since it’s an irrational form of footwear…it became associated with femininity, and then was eventually linked to female desirability.''

- Elizabeth Semmelhack, Sex, Power & High Heels

Sexuality in Fashion
Inez Van Lamsweerede & Vanoodh Matadin

“It is typical of the photographic art of van Lamsweerde and Matadin that they urge their image making to de-stabilise the pristine surfaces expected of consumer culture; to this end they make use, in turn, of the Gothic, inscrutability, androgyny, comedy, eroticism, surrealism, fantasy, montage, cinema, replication, image manipulation, Pop art, fetishism and art historical nuance.”

—Michael Bracewell, from the introduction

These Beautiful, thought provoking photographs were created by Dutch fashion photography duo Lamsweerde & Matadin. Whilst moving between art and fashion in their photography, they explore both gender and sexuality. Known for there work for fashion magazines, advertising campaigns and for their independent art work Lamsweerede & Matadin's images can be interpreted as both critical and slightly disturbing. At an early stage they introduced digitally manipulated photographs allowing them to explore questions about gender and sexuality, reality, superficiality and identity.  

Later on in their Career, the digital manipulations of their work became more subtle as they developed a personal artistic language. The manipulations made now are just regular re-touches.