Mimetic photographers try to mimic, or imitate, life accurately in a picture. Mimetic photos are most often of nature, such as trees, birds and insects. The goal of a mimetic photo is not only to capture life but to make it even more "real" than an everyday view of it. Mimesis can also be found in repeated images, such as serial photos that produce a rhythm that attracts the human eye.
Landscape
Shoot a photograph of a powerful landscape, such as a mountain range, a rolling green field or a body of water. Seek repetition through the viewfinder, looking for shapes mimicking each other as you mimic the reality of the scene before you. Take Ansel Adam's nature photographs, such as "Mount Williamson---Clearing Storm," as inspiration. Photograph a set of mountains that appear like cloth with wrinkles throughout. Or shoot a picture of a body of water dotted with small boats.
Repeated Objects
The human eye is attracted to repeated images or an object imitating the shape of another object. Take a photograph with repeated images in one image. Shoot a landscape photograph, for instance, where you have a bunch of people standing, spread out, drinking cups of coffee with the same motion, in a coffee plantation field. Try to use as many people as possible to create a more overwhelming repetition. Use photographer Sebastiao Salgado's 1986 photograph "Backs: Climbing Ladders in the Gold Mine of Serra Pelada, Brazil" from his "Workers" series as inspiration. The repetition of the human form in similar positions mimic each other, and the photograph mimics the scene.
Expressions
Take a series of photographs capturing various facial expressions. Use Douglas Huebler's photographs of Berndt Becher as a guide. Shoot the photographs using one model. Pose him in front of the camera so he is centered. Ask him either to imitate the facial expression of a people in society, such as a lawyer, maid or mother-in-law, as Huebler did, or let him express emotions facially, such as happiness, sadness, fatigue or depression. Once you have developed and printed the images, create a collage of the images in a row. The viewer will look from one photo to the next looking for a pattern but seeing subtle changes.
Flower
Shoot a flower so up close that it becomes abstracted or unfamiliar. The abstraction attracts the eye even closer to, as philosopher Emmanuel Kant would say, "the thing in itself." Orchids are a familiar flower type to photograph as are geraniums. Taking an abstracted photograph of a puffy red or pink geranium, perhaps with dew on the petals or an insect mid-motion across the petals, will inspire the viewer to look closer at a "common" geranium the next time she sees one.
Mimetic photographers try to mimic, or imitate, life accurately in a picture. Mimetic photos are most often of nature, such as trees, birds and insects. The goal of a mimetic photo is not only to capture life but to make it even more "real" than an everyday view of it. Mimesis can also be found in repeated images, such as serial photos that produce a rhythm that attracts the human eye.
Landscape
Shoot a photograph of a powerful landscape, such as a mountain range, a rolling green field or a body of water. Seek repetition through the viewfinder, looking for shapes mimicking each other as you mimic the reality of the scene before you. Take Ansel Adam's nature photographs, such as "Mount Williamson---Clearing Storm," as inspiration. Photograph a set of mountains that appear like cloth with wrinkles throughout. Or shoot a picture of a body of water dotted with small boats.
Repeated Objects
The human eye is attracted to repeated images or an object imitating the shape of another object. Take a photograph with repeated images in one image. Shoot a landscape photograph, for instance, where you have a bunch of people standing, spread out, drinking cups of coffee with the same motion, in a coffee plantation field. Try to use as many people as possible to create a more overwhelming repetition. Use photographer Sebastiao Salgado's 1986 photograph "Backs: Climbing Ladders in the Gold Mine of Serra Pelada, Brazil" from his "Workers" series as inspiration. The repetition of the human form in similar positions mimic each other, and the photograph mimics the scene.
Expressions
Take a series of photographs capturing various facial expressions. Use Douglas Huebler's photographs of Berndt Becher as a guide. Shoot the photographs using one model. Pose him in front of the camera so he is centered. Ask him either to imitate the facial expression of a people in society, such as a lawyer, maid or mother-in-law, as Huebler did, or let him express emotions facially, such as happiness, sadness, fatigue or depression. Once you have developed and printed the images, create a collage of the images in a row. The viewer will look from one photo to the next looking for a pattern but seeing subtle changes.
Flower
Shoot a flower so up close that it becomes abstracted or unfamiliar. The abstraction attracts the eye even closer to, as philosopher Emmanuel Kant would say, "the thing in itself." Orchids are a familiar flower type to photograph as are geraniums. Taking an abstracted photograph of a puffy red or pink geranium, perhaps with dew on the petals or an insect mid-motion across the petals, will inspire the viewer to look closer at a "common" geranium the next time she sees one.
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