Holiday (Window) Dress(ing)
December 1, 2011
Since I didn’t find any holiday images I liked Sunday, for this Saturday’s photography meetup I chose three photos I’d taken the day before on my way home from farmers market. These are the same mannequins I’d photographed the year before. Wonder how they will look next year. . . . What I find fascinating is how dead the gaze is. What makes a human face look alive, even when Photoshopped to smithereens? Such overprocessed photographs are said to make the person look like a Barbie doll, but still, you know the person is alive amid all that fake perfection. . . . Funny: I Photoshopped the mannequin photos to make them look more human (changed the skin tone, added “fingernail polish,” and eliminated lines indicating where the parts are screwed together). . . . The first three photos are the ones for the meetup. The rest are the photos I took last year. . . . Thanks to Steve Stennes for suggesting improvements to the third photograph.
Romancing Reality 