Photographic Influences - Rankin

These are all works of Rankin's from his 'Destroyed category of photographs, I collected them from his personal website; http://www.rankin.co.uk/

Rankin is a reknowned contemporary photographer who has become increasingly popular lately. I love his style of work as it takes an already well photographed piece then edits it asthough it has been done by hand. I think the textures of these pieces are really good, and are very interesting. The target market of his pieces has a large range aswell as he photographs all types of people, different age groups, ethnicitys and genders.

I particularly like the effect on the final photograph of a dashed line around the edge of the photograph, as this would fit in very well with the textile techniques I previously blogged about on Tracey Emin. I love the style of the second-last photograph, as I like the detail Rankin has added as it looks quite absurd, yet creative I think this would work well with the sequinned/glittered effect of the second photograph as this will allow a contrast in textures. I really love the sharpness of his photographs that allow every detail to be seen, and as my outlook of this magazine is for it to be textured and look like you could pull detail off of it - his idea's inspire me greatly.

Influences for Overall Magazine Look

These are various pieces of work by the reknowned, yet controversial artist, Tracey Emin. Her work inspires me through the way that it looks messy, but gets a message across. The colour palettes she also uses are not ones that you would initally think would work. I love the controvercy she creates through her work, and the way some words she uses are purposely misspelt. I especially like the use of textiles in this piece and to create this effect I could scan different fabrics and edit them on photoshop onto my own magazine. I feel that these can be used as great inspiration for my piece as i want it to look fun, and creative, to develop upon these pieces though I would like to use photography, as this is one area that she has not included in her piece, other than that - the font, colours and patterns of the piece are exactly what i want to portray through my piece.