Recreation

Original Picture:



Biography: Clarence John Laughlin was a photographer in the past 20th century.
Born in Louisiana in 1905 and died on January 2nd, 1985.

Something that I'd like to point out, (taken straight from Wikipedia):

Many historians credit Laughlin as being the first true surrealist photographer in the United States. His images are often nostalgic, reflecting the influence of Eugene Atget and other photographers who tried to capture vanishing urban landscapes.

Significance: Definitively the picture given has this particular nostalgic that wikipedia points out, a feeling of yearning for something that is outside of us, or unreacheable. (Perhaps due the main focal point being a person watching at the distance with his head up).

Composition: A well contrasted photograph with mostly grays and a strong focal point at the center of the photograph of a human being with a black shirt. It's notorious that this element is framed in the middle and contrasted against the cloudy soft background and the rough hard textured foreground of a wall.

Concept: Again, nostalgy. There is this underlying feeling of having something, but yearning for something that is either lost or not still reachable.
Method: I do not believe there was any particular method other than the guy doing architectural photograph. However it's important to mention that the architecture happens to lose it's own focal point to the whole emotion that is conveyed here.

Motivation: Again, I think this picture is not thought or produced, but rather, a simple excercise of photography that turned out quite well.
Opinion: I am in love with photographs that portrait feelings. It's really hard to produce a picture with such a result, since most of the work of the emotion is not on the author but on the audience that is looking at.

My recreation for this:

Composition: Behind the picture, I wanted to portray this feeling of missing and I believe that the high contrast of the picture is due the two textures being shown, one being hard and rough and the other soft and faded. This is the reason as to why I used it two elements on the same vein (a window frame and the snow on the background) to recreate this feeling.

Concept: Again the nostalgy, I wanted a human being at the center to place the final element that brings off this concept on the original picture, but lacking the resources (time) I had to come up with a different and more creative solution: a cut out of a character from a magazine, a little kid who is looking on the other side. This just suited it.