Second Shoot

In my second shoot I decided to try using a male model, I did one studio shoot and one location shoot inspired by the Shia La Beouf one I looked at earlier, I felt these worked better than the female model shots.

First Shoot

My first shoot was inspired by the simple studio work Peggy does with people like Jenifer Aniston,  I feel the pictures are interesting and you can see the inspiration but the model was not quite right for the shoot.

Interview with Sirota

This interview taken from 2000 is about Sirotas 'Guess Who?' book,  what this revealed to me is that Sirota came up for the idea whilst she was well into shooting it, she often asked her sitters to mess around, do silly things to loosen them up, so by the time she came up for the book she already had 50 images ready for it. This is one of my favourite quotes from the interview it tooks about when she photographs celebrities, but I feel it could refer to shooting anyway and is another thing I will keep in mind when shooting my own images 'Being comfortable enough with each other, striking a chord, being comfortable enough to be stupid and funny together and not be judgmental. And that’s been the most wonderful experience — making people laugh.'
http://www.salon.com/2000/11/17/sirota_22/

Other works

As well as shooting celebrities Peggy Sirota shoots fashion, beauty, advertisment and lifestlye photography.

Fashion-

I feel that her studio work is quite typical of a shoot that you would see in a fashion editorial, its main aim to show off the clothes, whereas her on location work has more of the typical Peggy Sirota 'elegant snapshot' feel. I think the main feeling I get from her fashion work is that it has been directed by a client than her work with celebrities.


Lifestyle-

 

Her lifestlye shots are quite playful, they often have a happy feel to them although I sometimes feel as though it is hard to tell how forced the happines in the images is.

 

Advertisements-

 

Peggy Sirota has also created various advertising campaigns for large companies. These are usually quite fun, and often she captures the models in action laughing, talking, walking etc. I particularly like the works she does for GAP.

 

Peggy Sirota- Shia LaBeouf

In this image of Shia LaBeouf I like the difference between the background and the messy food against the smart white suit he is wearing, the image looks more constructed than any previous ones I've looked at due to his serious expression and the way he holds the food as if he has simply been told to pick it up, but I still feel the different elements in the image make it interesting.

Photographers working in a similar way.

To aid this project I also wanted to look at some photographers who worked in a similar way.

Alexi Lubormirski-
http://www.alexilubomirski.com/photography.html

Lubormirski shoots lots of celebrities for editorial publications, I feel he chooses settings well often creating interesting juxtapositions between the backgrounds of foregrounds in his images, as well as this similar to Sirota he captures real emotions.

Perou-
http://www.perou.co.uk/
Perou often uses props, backgrounds to tell a story about the subject matters, I feel the images feel a little more constructed than Sirotas, but often the concepts behind images appear to be similar.

 



 

 

Guess Who

http://www.guesswhobook.com/

Another project Sirota has worked on is the Guess Who book for an AIDS charity where she asked celebrities, athletes and musicians to disguise themeselves. The book is 'a tongue-in-cheek homage to the celebrity phenomenon that seems to be present everywhere', it is quite humourous and engages viewers.



Review of the book from the guardian-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2001/aug/25/art