“The Credit Scene”
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“The Credit Scene” is the name of my photo series. On our first day of class, we were asked where we thought we could make a photo series and I chose the movie theater since I really couldn’t get that idea out of my head, right then and there decided that my 1st photo series had to be at the movie theater. This series’ inspiration was mainly Cindy Sherman’s “Untitled Film Stills” since it was a very impactful series to me. In the article “The Cindy Sherman Effect” by Phoebe Hoban, different artists from across different mediums speak about Cindy Sherman’s impact on their art. One of the artists Abe Frajndlich said this about Sherman, “That’s what I see as one of her great strengths—the theatrics of camera vision.” I loved the idea of making pictures that look like they’ve come from a movie since it is quite an interesting challenge. It’s also so interesting what kind of different interpretations one single picture could have.
“And by limiting her subject matter strictly to herself, while at the same time excavating countless permutations, she inspired a generation of younger artists to explore their own identities across a range of mediums.” (Hoban) Sherman’s impact on portraiture going beyond photography and bleeding into different art forms changed the way I thought about portraits. When it comes to the art I make, whether that might be graphics, illustrations, or photography, I never really include myself; it's more about things that speak to me, which to a degree is myself, but I think this is why I really enjoyed Cindy Sherman’s work. “Sherman’s coup was to cast herself as subject matter, making each of her staged characters the star of an implicit narrative” (Hoban). She plays characters that speak to her, so it is her but at the same time it isn’t, and that’s how I decided to approach this series.
Even though making a photo series was challenging, I had so much fun taking these pictures, especially since I got to watch a movie afterward. For this series, I explored 2 narratives. The original idea: At night characters come out from their movies but are confined to only the movie theater, living in solitude for eternity. A few days after taking the pictures, I was struck with this new concept of an evil presence creeping around the theater. Although I have my own narratives for these pictures I think they can definitely be up to interpretation, I just wanted them to have an eerie, hopeless, lost, and despairing feeling.
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