DeviantArt categorises them under Still Life, personally I'm torn between that or portraiture. A seemingly growing portraiture and/or still life trend is the art of photographing miniature dolls. While some styles are still to capture the dolls just sitting around not doing much aside from looking like the lifeless doll that it is; a new, more creative style is emerging where the dolls are not only made up to look more human (clothes/makeup) but the actual photography style has changed to capture a more human side to them, close up beauty shots and very contemporary fashion-esque portraits.
I don't particularly know where this trend would fit in the commercial world.. certainly as an arty, anonymous portrait to hang on your wall it could work, or I think stock images for publishers etc would find a great use for it. Even in the fashion world, miniature mockups of outfits could be made and photographed - at a much cheaper cost then hiring an actual model too.
So I want people to comment on not only where they feel this miniature doll portraiture should be categorised (still life/portraiture) and possible uses/viability it could have in a commercial world.
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Frannie.
I've defenately seen this doll photography alot on deviantart and they are extremely popular. I don't particularly like them because of the fake aspect to it. Also the photography has all control over everything, making it easy apart from lighting to achieve. Because of the full control I would call it still life, placing an object how you want it, where you want it.
ReplyDeleteMaybe i could crop ebay sales ads and submit them to deviantart, i can't wait for the royalties to roll in.
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These images are more suitable for the commercial world for fashion, certainly don't have that still life or portraiture feel to it for me. I think the dolls would have to look as human like as possible otherwise i'm not sure if would work in the commercial world.
ReplyDeleteDon't like it, but each to their own?
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