Stephen Fry with Care Bear Head: Re-enactment
I this great image from Heat magazine (it wasn’t mine). Since I work with second hand and used materials I get given lots of things from friends and a bundle of celeb magazines came my way.
Pages and pages of celebrities, the most boring trash imaginable. But well worth investigating and messing around with, working out possibilities. It’s handy to have an abundance, I can be free to make mistakes.
Re-enactments are a concept that I’ve been interested in for a long time now. Clarisse d’Arcimoles work was a treat in the Saatchi exhibition New Speak: British Art Now. She had re-enacted family photos from her childhood with as much accuracy as possible. Check this image out of her brother:
http://cameraobscura.busdraghi.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/07Clarisse_dArcimoles_petitroi.jpg
I will attempt a re-enactment for the Stephen Fry image, although I’m not concerned with accuracy. Trying to get the model to catch the right stance is difficult enough let alone getting the camera angle right. I’m aiming for low-key obviousness.
