Robert:

Robert (studio):

In this lesson I had to take photographs to represent Robert Mapplethorpes photography after we had learnt about his style of work.

If I was to do this lesson again I would also use a black background because many of Robert's photographs where against a black background.

In the first image you can see that the person is not posed at all, just looking directly at the camera with a straight face. This is how Mapplethorpe's photos where they were simple and no one was ever positioned in a posed/set up way. If I was to take this image again I would just include the face and the top area/shoulders of the person against a black background so it looks like her head is floating in the air like one of Robert's photographs.

This next image shows just a section of the body and the main focus of the photograph is the arm and the hand of the person. This links to Robert's photography because one of his images show a section of the top half of someone's body and then the arm and hand across the other side of the image. If I was to take this image again I would take it in the same way/same angle but try not to include as much of the background.