SELF-PORTRAITS ASSIGNMENT 2

Here can you see my selected self-portraits of profile-sites.

What I think about self-portraits

I think self-portraits are a good thing to use. It’s common in personal letters, CV and also in the start of books. It’s a way to present yourself in a visual way and tell peoples who you are and give them an opportunity to imagine about your personality. But as always, there are drawbacks to everything. If the self-portraits are not serious or the peoples don’t care about the photos and using bad non-useful material, will the self-portraits main function be wasted. When you shall present yourself with a self-portrait is it also possible to give a different view of your personality, which not reflect the reality.

What did you learn of this exercise?

By analyzing self-portraits have I started to understand the differences how a picture can be interpreted. Its also depends on what kind of mood you are and your earlier experiences about the portraits.

In try to look at a picture with a wider view and try to find the “meaning” with it. By analyzing and include aspects as “why is the picture taken right there” and “what is’t about” may a new interpret be performed. I think the personality of a human have a great affect on how a picture can be interpreted and their earlier experiences and background they have.

What does a profile site mean to me?

Assignment B.
A useful tool to use if you want to show yourself for the whole world. In that way you let others to enjoy your self-portraits and you can also promote yourself, if you work as a artis or such. You can “make” new friends and meet people from different places in the world. The disadvantage of this is that I mentioned before, can a profile-picture be misleading and reflect a untrue personality, which not exist.

What do your analyses have in common?

When I analyses this self-portraits have I tried to find something I like and also something that have some connection to. It’s hard to explain but it’s a feeling or emotions, which they leaving to the viewer and makes it easier to understand and imagination of the picture.

What tools/ methods do we use when we analyse self-portraits to identify personalities? 

It’s not one answer for this question. When a person presents himself, many different methods are used. Sometimes will just a part of their face appears and sometimes just an eye. Sometimes have they done a pictogram for their presentation and so on.  The picture is often made in black and white color to give them a nice effect.

Can we use these tools/ methods also for analyze other images? Try to explain this and what did you learn of this exercise? What is your connection to VKB and VC?

Of course we can analyze pictures from other fields. If you try to imagine the pictures purpose and its intended message have all pictures something to say. If we look at a picture on purpose with a objective view might we found many “clear” perspectives of the picture. But if we tried to have a subjective view instant, may the whole interpretation be different.

By just use those two different interpretation methods have certainly many analyses been performed.

Here are more examples of how a picture can be analysed:

• Historical- the “when”
• Technical- the “how”
• Ethical
• Cultural
• Critical

By using different analyzing methods and different persons interpretations can we learn a lot. Also by looking at a picture and then discuss it with another person and try to understand his/hers imagination and interpretation of the picture.

SELF-PORTRAITS ASSIGNMENT

This is two actors from Sweden Johan Rheborg (1963) and Henrik Schyffert (1968).

Besides being great actor are both of them artists and and currently they have a TV show about photography, there they are trying to find new inspiration for their work.

I like this picture of them two because they are trying to reflect their crazy stereotypes, which they have built up during their career as actors. You can see that they have worked a lot together and are good friends. Like also that they have built up a good contrast between their “normal” personalities and their self-portraits as they carrying.

Self-Portrait of Carl Larsson (1853-1919), Swedish painter and interior designer, representative of the Arts and Crafts Movement.

His painting works seems to include oil and watercolours. He have some kind of childhood in his works and it feels like he loves what he are doing.

I like this photo because it have fine colours and the childhood he tries to bring out with the photo when he is holding the doll, which can be reflected with his mind of a child.

He considered his finest work to be Midvinterblot (Midwinter Sacrifice), a large wall mural now displayed inside the Swedish National Museum of Fine Arts.

This is a self-portrait of August Strindberg, (1849-1912), a famous artist from Sweden.

I like this picture because it’s an original black and white photo and  taken by a old camera and no Photoshop and such have been used.

I found many self-portraits of August Strindberg and I chose this one of the reason that he actually looking in to the camera and don’t  flee with his eyes as in many of his other portraits .

I think the picture is really good for its time. It’s sharp and the light is pointed at his face, to give it the focus. I also like when the background is blurred so it don’t take the main focus of the picture.

You can see this picture in the Museum of Strindberg in Stockholm.

Self-portrait of the artist Ivar Arosenius (1878), Sweden.

The photo is made in watercolour and have the measurements 31 x 24 centimetres and was made in Sweden 1906. The owner of this photo is the Swedish National Museum.

I like this photo because Ivar Arosenius sees himself as a bohemian with male artist ideals and I also like it because of the contrast between his head and the flowers.

The photo is portrayed in the nature of Europe and Ivar have a large garland of flowers on his head, wearing a beard and a wool sweater.

My self-portrait

Here is my self-portrait. (Jimmy Kämäräinen Bergstrand (1990), Eskilstuna, Sweden)

This was taken last summer (2013) in Sweden at a “suited up” party.

One of my friends used his phone for this photo and then have I added some filters in Photoshop to get the black white colours.

I like this photo because it’s spontaneous and my face are in focus. Actually is the photo cropped to give my face the whole focus and in turn will the background not appear more clearly and take the main focus. The black and white colours gives the photo some extra effect.

I chose this photo  because I like it and are a good memory of my friends back in Sweden.