Final Reproduction Project
Original Reproduced
- Level of Difficulty - 9.5/10
- hard time finding an image of the camera.
- font of text didn't fully match and is missing some parts.
- shading of the hand took hours long because of the different textures and shadows.
- matching the color of the text, hand, camera, and background to the original was time consuming.
- Laszlo Maholy-Nagy used a photogram to make this image so I had to do a lot of tracing using the pen tool to create this digital art since I don't have the tools he used.
- Working digitally changed the aesthetic of the work:
- less grainy, more smoother
- brighter contrast
- more sharpened edges and lines
- My reproduction of the image told a more "modern" story given the change in slight details:
- It foreshadows the time period he created his design to today.
- It shows how much our modern software can take away nostalgia and originality from the past.
- The timeline recreating this image shows the level of difficulty of Photoshop (too many options to choose from).
- I found the hand to be the most interesting part of the original work.
- I wish I could've found a better image of the vintage camera.
Sources
Pixabay. (2017). Old Camera. Stockvault. Retrieved October 9, 2022, from https://www.stockvault.net/photo/234135/old-camera#.