Mapplethorpe style(location) Work Dairy

Mapplethorpe style(location)

In the beginning of this lesson we watched a documentary on Robert Mapplethorpe's photography. After this i went to shoot photographs which had been inspired by Robert Mapplethorpe on location.

I was inspired to take this first photograph as Robert Mapplethorpe liked to have a contrast of what was in the photograph against what was not in the photograph. In my photograph i decided to capture the flower in the corner of the composition as that it was not taking up the majority of the composition. The majority of the composition is then replaced by a meaningless background.

 I was inspired to take this photograph as Robert Mapplethorpe's photograph are very simplistic. I made my photograph simple by only showing a section of the subject and the wall taking up the majority of the composition. Also the section of the face that the audience can see has a neutral facial expression therefore no specific emotion is being portrayed through the photograph.




If i was to continue with Mapplethorpe style on location i would like to experiment more with the simplicity of the photograph and carry on having the majority of the composition being taken up by the background.