My Glamorous Lee Miller

[Rob MacKillop]

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[Rob MacKillop]

 

[Pete Askew]

What a brilliant transformation of an iconic Image (of an iconic woman).

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Thanks. I'm wondering if I should show it in reverse, the abstract first?

Maybe a slo-mo video through the transformations...

BTW, she makes a very attractive fridge magnet!

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Great journey Rob

I think that starting with the original image means that you se it as a face all the way to the end - if you start the over way around you'll have more puzzlement a the start, and then realize it's a head as it solidifies

 

[Rob MacKillop]

There, I've changed the order. I think it's better.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

I've come in after the change and it works for me.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Good.

 

[Glenn Clabo]

Just too cool for school Rob. It caused a little concern for your well being when I first opened it though. However...I should have known it was the artist mind at work. Nice.

 

[Tom Dunne]

The way these are displaying on my monitor doesn't do the idea justice. Is it just my monitor?
Ideally I think these need to be seen as one image/file in panorama style showing the progression from left to right across the page so to speak, if that makes sense. I like the Man Ray look of them
Fascinating idea Rob.

 

[Brian Moore]

I love the solarized look of the original portrait. Nicely done on the presentation, Rob.

 

[Pete Askew]

Tom's suggestion is just what I was thinking too Rob. Solarisation of negatives can be very effective and this is a particularly good example I think. Not so keen on solarised prints though. Really must do some more:

http://www.realphotographersforum.com/forum/threads/solarised-portrait.10051/
http://www.realphotographersforum.com/forum/threads/solarised-abstract-figure-detail.10052/

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Thanks for all the comments. My notion was to have these on different walls, even on different floors, and quite large.

I got her fridge magnet from the Scottish National Portrait Gallery during a Man Ray exhibition. I've been thinking of doing something with it for a while. Here I applied successive layers of Nik's Glamour Glow, to see how much glamour one girl could take before disintegrating into an unrecognisable abstract. I went further than the first one above (which was my last) but it made no real difference.

When I uploaded them yesterday, they appeared one after the other. This afternoon they are in pairs on my screen. Did someone else do this? I quite like it.

 

[Pete Askew]

One above the other on my screen.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Hmm. Still in pairs here. No matter.

 

[Pete Askew]

They're ganging up on you Rob. They'll be in threes tomorrow!