Julie Rrap

another artist that looks at the body.

John Coplan

Looking at the body in bits and pieces and a very honest way.

Nan Goldin

An interesting photographer, Nan turned her life into art and her friends and experiences are what she documents.

She also looks at Homosexuality, Aids and other Gender related areas.

Duane Michals

I really really like the way Michals looks at the idea of series or sequence. The first image i like for the inclusion of the first photographs continued presence in the next photographs.

Dr Heisenberg's Magic Mirror i found really interesting because of the way that it explores narcissism and more so the idea of exploring the whole through the distorted pieces shown to the viewer in a mirror. This is something i'm considering for the theme of my folio.

Drag Queens & Courtney Act

Similarly to Grace Jones, Courtney Act and other drag queens use makeup to appear female, using it to enhance the femininity of the character they play.

Women use makeup, generally in a less dramatic fashion, to enhance their own femininity and attractiveness. Essentially we attempt to conform to a socially dictated norm; that women should look feminine and beautiful (which extends to how they should act, think, talk, etc).

I know personally, since I cut my hair short, I have felt the need to make my face appear more feminine so as to offset the masculinity associated with short hair.

Grace Jones & Androgyny

'SEQUENCE' Brief - Annie Leibovitz

I recently went to Sydney to see Annie Leibovits's exhibition. i found the candid photos of her life with author Susan Sontag really moving. They were so honest, but i also saw them as the series of events that made up their life together. Just one way of thinking about a series... I'm just trying to brainstorm a couple of different ways of exploring the concept.

'SEQUENCE' Brief

se·quence (skwns, -kwns)n.

1. A following of one thing after another; succession.
2. An order of succession; an arrangement.
3. A related or continuous series.
4. Games Three or more playing cards in consecutive order; a run.
5. A series of related shots that constitute a complete unit of action in a movie.
6. Music A melodic or harmonic pattern successively repeated at different pitches with or without a key change.
7. Roman Catholic Church A hymn sung between the gradual and the Gospel.
8. Mathematics An ordered set of quantities, as x, 2x2, 3x3, 4x4.
9. Biochemistry The order of constituents in a polymer, especially the order of nucleotides in a nucleic acid or of the amino acids in a protein.
tr.v. se·quenced, se·quenc·ing, se·quenc·es
1. To organize or arrange in a sequence.
2. To determine the order of constituents in (a polymer, such as a nucleic acid or protein molecule).

Helmut Newton

Pure sex - could he have had a job more envied by the male population?