Collage made from images from ASOS Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar
The top image is a model from the fashion magazine from the ASOS website while the eyes come from a David Bailey photograph of his wife from an interview in Harper’s Bazaar.
I like the combination of the two types of imagery: one from a free mailout by a relatively unknown fashion photographer, the other from a high end glossy magazine, the image being from a world renowned photographer. Combining two worlds.
As the original Bailey image was black and white I decided to experiment with the photocopier and reproduced the whole image in black and white. This changes the impact of the image, I’m not sure if I prefer the original or the reproduction both are quite effective collages.
I then played with the colour settings on the photocopier and produced the image with a magenta tint and one with a turquoise tint. Although these images don’t have a particularly high impact on the viewer it was interesting to see the results of the process.
This was another experiment, I had photocopied either side of a face from a Nivea advert, one being the actual face the other being the text from the article on the other side of the page, I then interlinked them and they fitted over the original collage so the eyes just showed through. I put them over the turquoise copy and then photocopied it again.
This was agin more about the experimentation of the process rather than the final piece.
