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Title: Unidentified African American woman
Date: ca. 1850
Medium: daguerreotype with applied colour
Dimensions: 7.0 x 5.5 cm.: 1/6 plate
George Eastman House Collection
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Source: Oxford Languages
The image above is what I'm talking about.
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The reason why I painted my own face as opposed to another subject's face was because I feel that I personally relate a lot to the narrative of wanting to be yourself but having to conform to the will of others instead. With this picture, I captured it so that the left of my face is in a light shadow whereas the right side of my face is directly into the sunlight as it represents me wanting to escape into joy and happiness but I am held back. Furthermore, me painting the light side of my face instead of the dark side of my face greatly emphasises this more as it is like a part of me is fleeting while the other is kept in place.
Overall Evaluation
Out of all the topics I have shot, I think my best work was my 'cinema and the cinematic image' because of the continued usage of religious motifs that were present throughout the triptych from start to end. The first picture presents the church as an ominous place that you would not like to visit (from a non spiritualist's perspective) as some people believe that religion such as Christianity is bad as it teaches that certain things we as a society accept are 'wrong' such as homosexuality, the second image contrasts it with the vibrant emotion that is apparent in that place because of the love present, and the third image has a mixture of views based on religion and spirituality that there is good to it and bad to it. This is because it features an apple which is the sign of the original sin, it has knowledge which is good but obtaining that knowledge is bad as it means you will fall to sin. Like this, religions like Christianity can be good or bad but depends on the person who has that belief and if they spread good things with it or bad things. This was why the apple was covered in sunlight in half and half in dark. When put all together as a triptych, there is a clear narrative made that is stronger than the other images I have put together.
