1. Image Analysis 1
This untitled photograph came from Albrecht Tubke’s Personae “Made In Italy”
shoot, which was completed in 2009. The subject makes the whole photograph,
which is shot as a vertical digital portrait. Tubke tries to capture the person’s
personality through their clothes, stance and facial expression. The photograph has
been edited; you can see that it has been de-saturated of some of its colour but the
colours of the subject’s clothes still stand out and grab your attention, especially the
dark dress that contradicts with the clean light background.
When looking at this photograph you notice the subject straight away as you are
drawn to the dark/light comparison. The composition of the image is evenly set out
due to the way Tubke has framed his subject in the middle with no extra space
around making it look symmetrical. He has captured the floor in the photo that has
created a line from the ankles down; the floor is grey and the light grey wall creates
a nice analogous colour flow. Tubke has shot in daylight Tuscany so he didn’t need to
use any compositional devices; he uses a quick shutter speed to get a nice sharp
image, on that note he also uses a small depth of field to bring out the unique
subject amongst the plain background.
This photograph out of the many finals Tubke chose for his Personae project stood
out to me the most because of its uniqueness. The photograph captures whatever
the person is; this women is standing tall, fashionably dressed with a subtle grin on
her face which shows a lot about her and a lot about the people Tubke stops to take
their photo. The colours in this photograph in particular I think brings the
photograph to life and catches your eye because of the colour contradiction
between the women’s outfit and the background. Tubke uses the same/similar rules
for every photo he does; such as framing, backdrops and desaturation which links his
work together.