TAKING PHOTOS

After finding new photos and artists to move forward with, I then went on to take photos incorporating these ideas. Before I did this, I researched some new artists who incorporated these ideas. I took a variety of photos, focusing on my subject of headscarves and turbans, taking a number of photos using different coloured scarves and wrapping styles.

My first photos were of a 'islamic-green' shaded scarf which wrapped around my models head and hung down at the back. I found that these photos related well to images from the 'CORAL PETROLEUM COLLECTION OF ORIENTALIST PAINTINGS' and Marie-Guillemine Benoist's 'Portrait d'une negresse'.

I then took photos using a black scarf which i hung around my models face, trying a modern take on an otherwise traditional style image by hanging a silk scarf around her neck along with a multi-coloured bead necklace. The looping and hanging of the scarf around the face, to me, was very similar to Rossetti's 'The Bride' (or 'The Beloved') and a Dulac illustration.

The next set of photos I took were of a patterned scarf, wapped and twisted around my models hair, and this related well to Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones figure study for 'The Rose Bower' along with Jan van Eyck's 'Man in a Turban'.