I am starting a project called Imitation... I plan on creating photographs in the likeness of the style of some of my favorite photographers. These photographers have not only made an impact on my life but the lives of many others as well. The images will not necessarily be recreations of their images. My intention is to have the same feel as the photographer I am imitating. I work a lot with children so some of the portraits may actually use models who are much younger than the subjects in the photographs I am basing my work off of. I am absolutely not making a joke out of the original works. I want to be very clear some of the images are very powerful and I am by no means taking the statement the image makes lightly.
Some of the photographers I intend to imitate are:
Dorthea Lange
Ansel Adams
Harold Edgerton
Lewis Hine
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Imogen Cunningham
Elliot Erwitt
George Hurrell
Annie Leibovitz
Anne Geddes
Robert Mapplethorpe (Still life)
Edward Weston
This seems to be a pretty complete list. I am missing one Western photographer and as soon as I can remember his name I will add him to the list. There are three women on this list and each of them brings a different tone to the mix. There is a little bit of everything from classical Adams to the often jarring images produced by Mapplethorpe- which is why I am sticking to his still life images.
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