Photo Series: Patterns

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Photography Versus the Law

Photography Versus the Law

         Many people would recognize the Nike Air Jordan symbol Jumpman that is identified as Michael Jordan dunking a basketball. What many people don’t know is the history behind this infamous symbol. Jacobus Rentmeester is the photographer who arranged and photographed Michael Jordan but it wasn’t for Nike.

         Jacobus Rentmeester photographed Jordan for an issue in Life Magazine during the 1984 Olympics. The photo Rentmeester chose for the magazine was an action shot of Jordan dunking. Jordan is in the air with the ball in his left hand and his legs in the placement of a split. Nike stole this image from Rentmeester’s page in Life Magazine for advertisement purposes of Nike’s Air Jordan shoes. Rentmeester took the Nike company to court and sued over Nike’s actions, Nike admitted to stealing his photo of Michael Jordan and asked Rentmeester’s permission to use his photo for two years for advertisements, in return he was paid 150 dollars.

          After the court case, Rentmeester filed his slides of Jordan with the Copyright and Trademark registration. He recently found out that Nike has still been using his slides for more than just advertisement purposes; they turned it into the actual label for their Air Jordan shoes.

         Michael Jordan was asked about these photos and the symbol in an interview. Jordan explains how he was told by Rentmeester to pretend to dunk with his left hand to show his whole body in motion. He was also told to form a grand jete, a ballet move where you perform the splits in the air. Jordan stated that he “doesn’t even dunk with his left hand”, he dunks with his right hand.

        Rentmeester is currently suing Nike over using his photos for the Air Jordan symbol and is asking for 3.2 million dollars in return for copyright infringement. There has not been an announced settlement at this time. Nike did admit to stealing his slides and will hopefully pay Rentmeester for their damages; they might even try to buy his copyright since the Jumpman is such an iconic symbol by now. Rentmeester should receive compensation for the usages of his slides since Nike agreed to only use his images for two years and agreed to only use them for advertisements.

Studio Lighting

Split.

Loop.

Rembrandt.

Butterfly.

Broad.

Short.

Keep it Surreal

Created out of Darkness.

Pareidolia

Pareidolia is the recognition of a specific pattern in something different. This could relate to seeing a face in inanimate objects or tiles laid randomly and then turn out to be in a pattern. Our brain identifies these pattern because of our memories of shapes, colors, etc. These are the facial expressions I saw.

Relaxed.

Sassy.

Face of realization.

Snooty.

 Confused alien.

 Annoyed.

Happy.

Shocked.

Calm.

Two emotions in one:

Bored or Surprised.

Photo Series Concept

          My Photo Series concept is shadows of patterns on one or more human subjects. The overall idea is to find fabrics with patterns or make patterns and then shine a light on those patterns to show the shadows of the patterns on the human body. My sources of inspiration comes from our Advanced Portrait Study project where we had to experiment with lighting and Anthology of Nude Photography by Dani Olivier. My subjects will be my boyfriend and possibly one or two other participants. The location would be at my boyfriend's house and the equipment would be a camera, a white wall, a tripod, multiple fabrics and a flashlight. The only post processing I would do is possibly crop the images for a more pleasing appearance if needed and all the photos will be in black and white.

Photo Stitch Project

My PhotoStitch creation.

Brenizer Method.

Brenizer Method cropped.

Warhol Project

Remake a Classic Work of Art

Gustave Courbet's Self-Portrait

"The Desperate Man"

Advanced Portrait Study

Part 1

Image 1

Image 2

Image 3

Image 4

Image 5

Image 6

Image 7

Part 2

Left

Front

Right

          Studies have stated that the left side of the face is most ascetically pleasing location to photograph for portraits. Scientists have discussed how painters, before cameras, would mostly paint the left side. I have noticed this act performed by painters. But if someone got a copy of someone's portrait on their body that would mean the photo was taken on their right side.
          Throughout this project I've taken photos of all angles of my subject and I've concluded that the left side of the face isn't the only ascetically pleasing angle of the human face. Most of my final chosen photos for part one of this project was my subject's right side. Only one of my photos for this project is actually the left side of my subject. The rest is either the right side or the front.

Contact Photos

Comic Book