People-less Portraits

From People-less Portrait Series

April 2010

I want to explore and expand this idea of composing portraits of implied people by their scenarios and attire in the second project of warm and cool portraits. 

Ophelia

Ophelia

Gregory Credson

2001

I love the eerie over-saturation of the colors in this photograph. This is the one of the examples I had in mind when working on my non local color photo because the color saturation is right on the border of looking completely unrealistic and being too subtle.    

Project #1 Non Local Color

Black Bat Flower

Photo By Lisa Pankas

2011

Non Local and Abstract Color

Liz Hickok

City Hall

2004

From San Francisco in Jell-O® 

Santa Fe Gallery

Liz Hickok's 2004 series, San Francisco in Jello, is a collection of photographs taken of a cityscape constructed in jello of San Francisco. The very odd and unrealistic angles of view in contrast with the realistic placement and proportions of the buildings creates drama and tension within the photos. One photo in particular, City Hall, shows a very lifelike replica of the building in red jello. The lighting also aids the low angle of view in creating drama within the composition. The red color choice maybe referring to Communism and the use of jello implies child-likeness or flaws withing the government. Non local or abstract color is distorting the natural or original color of an object, such as changing this white government building to red.