Research 3.

Valérie Belin 

She mainly works in portrait and her main media is black and white images, she does a lot of studio work that is why I have chosen this photographer as my work is also done within the studio environment.

     I really like her work as I love black and white photographs; I find that images in black and white tend to show a lot more detail especially in faces, as it makes every line and wrinkle of a face stand out. She has done other images in black and white like dog and cars. There is one selection that she did in 1999 and 2000 on body builders, again done in black and white, I think theses images work very well in this medium as they show every muscle and there structure that I believe could have been lost in a colour image. She has also done colour work but her main medium is in black and white.

     She has a wide medium of work from portrait images to that of cars and flowers, I believe the artist is trying to show detail in her work and most if not all of her work is close up of the subject she is shooting.

     I have looked at her work mainly because of her use of the studio as that compares to my own work yet I have also looked at her work because of her use of people. She uses close up work and that is something I am going to do in some of my shots also. I like how she uses emotion in her subjects and I wish to recreate this in one of my own images, ‘return of a solder’. I love her images and there simplicity there is not a lot going on in her images so the eye and mind if not distracted with lots of effects or even colours, they are simple and easy to look at.

     She has done numerous articles and her work has even been displayed on the street, the bodybuilder series. Her work is displayed in galleries and are displayed as large images that range from a meter in height to even higher.

     She was born in 1964 in France and still works and lives there to this day in Paris, her work ranges from 1995 to the present day.

‘Valerie Belin presents photos of missing any dramatization of any affect, taking on the scrap yards, objects, crystal wedding gowns or inanimate faces.’  

Bibliography:

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http://www.valeriebelin.com/