Describe the image as closely as you can. Write your description on your Blog. What do you think is going on here? Is this an artistic image or a documentary image (or both)? Is the image Photoshopped? Try to assign meaning to the image. What do you think the photographer's intent was? What does the image say to you? How does the difference in scale between the man and the girl's face add to your interpretation of the photograph.
The image is of a man who looks to be mountain climbing on a woman's face especially near her eye/eyebrow and her nose. I think that the man is trying to climb to the top of her body. This type of photograph is an artistic image because there is suppose to be a meaning behind it but I really don't know what it could be. This image is photoshopped because they had to make the man look like an ant climbing on the woman's face, so the photographer must have had to shrink the man. I think the meaning of this photo is that are many different meanings. Like how the man is using the woman by a strand of her hair to climb so it could be a feminism meaning. Or other people could say that he is sculpting her and he is trying to get better detailing of her face. I think the photographer's intent of this image was to make people think of what the photo could be. The image says to me that the woman is afraid of what she looks like and she is not confident. The difference in scale of the man and the girl's face is that the girl is more important because she is bigger than the man and that could mean that she has more power over him because he is small.
With that in mind, describe Helnwein's image in as much detail as you can and in a separate post, record your answers on your Blog. Look at the image closely (Click on it to enlarge). What do you see? Describe it as if you were recounting it in detail to someone who had never seen it. Think about the scale--how could the size affect the meaning? Think about the material, the logistics and engineering of mounting it. Is it one contiguous image or is it spliced together or can't you tell?
Think about the location--is it urban? Rural? Residential? Industrial? Given the image's location, who do you think will see the it? Who is the intended audience? Describe the mood of the image. What is the expression on the girl's face? Is it blase? Is it engaged? Is it optimistic? Wondering? Melancholy?
This image that has been fully sized is now a billboard in some kind of urban city and there is a photo of a man in front of the billboard in the first photo and in the last photo the man is now climbing the billboard. The size affects the meaning because it changes the whole perspective like now it can mean a form of protest or rebellion. This is one contiguous image because it moves together in the image. The location of this piece is at a private area surrounded by water in some sort of an industrial city. I think the people who see it are people on boats, in the marina, fishermen. The people who are the intended audience of the billboard are anyone who are on the water, for people who travel in cars. The mood of this image is a focused, driven mood for someone who knows what they want. The expression of the girl's face is a driven expression that tells us that she wants everyone to know what she wants.
