Gottfried Helwein

     Describe the image as closely as you can.  Write your description on your Blog. What do you think is going on here?  Is this an artistic image or a documentary image (or both)? Is the image Photoshopped? Try to assign meaning to the image. What do you think the photographer's intent was? What does the image say to you? How does the difference in scale between the man and the girl's face add to your interpretation of the photograph?


      The following picture by Gottfried Helnwein is illustrating a huge face with the eye being the focal concentration alongside the nose and the mouth, and a little man on the face with a line going down. The person looks as if he might be utilizing a string of her hair to climb up her face, to look at her and attempt to make sense of what she might be cover up underneath all the makeup. I believe that this is an artistic image and a documentary image as the piece looks to be drawn and shaded with pencil, and the man may have been put there by photoshop to pass on the importance of this piece.I feel the photographers purpose behind snapping this picture was to show how we like to depict ourselves large to advance things.