Getting Lost Slideshow

All of the pictures are in black and white. There is a consistent value and lighting throughout the collection. The pictures play with depth and layers. Some create the illusion that the subject is coming out of the frame. The pictures are light weight, carefree, and natural.

The photos of Elie Saab's textiles mimic the feel and texture of the photos in the collection. It shows the original and a recreation, quite literally a fabrication of what God first created. The media quote relates the beauty of nature with beauty in another, manmade way. For me the quote takes the same beauty out of nature and applies it in a formal, stiff environment. If nature is embodied by soft blowing breezes the fabric of the fashion show is reminiscent of starch.

The scope of all of the pictures is close up and the field of view is narrow and up-close. Each picture, as mentioned before, has layers despite the small scope of the photo. The black and white and the shared values of the pictures help add to their cohesion. The progression of the pictures almost come to a point. At the start of the they are softer and end in the spider picture which is more severe.

I think one thing that works in the collection is the use of black and white. Also the media quote resembles the photos nicely while also bringing a different angle and connotation to the them. On the negative side not all of the photos fit together as seamlessly as the rest. For this reason I removed one photo of a vine climbing up tree bark. To improve the collection further I would crop in the photos of the fashion models to emphasize the textile because the background and model's faces are not contributing to the collection.

The photos and the media quotes within this collection speak to both the way of media and the way of culture. Nature is the only thing that is truly original. Culture draws from that and recreates and manipulates it for its purposes. In his clothing Elie Saab draws his inspiration from nature but drags it into the context of culture. Nature has the power to change culture but while culture can manipulate and destroy nature it can not affect actual, original change to it.