Research: Studio Portraits
Group Discussion

The group discussion consisted us to bring in a image that we thought was a portrait and explain what you felt towards it and why you have chosen it. Everyone had different views on what portraits were which was interesting and gives the class to learn about how they think and what their opinions were on everyone's images and thought about how the photographer would of portrayed the emotion and how lighting helps express the emotion further.

Photographer Fritz Arno Wagner was a past master of creating atmosphere for dramas. Wagner began his career as a newsreel cameraman for Pathe Freres and worked widely for UFA. 

Warning Shadows (1922)
Schatten: Eine Nachtliche Halluzination

Waning Shadows was an Early German cinema that held a fascination for shadows and their doppelganger implications. Warning Shadows puts the idea to good use in an expressionist film that introduces a sinister puppeteer who shows an range of characters as they really are.

I had chosen this image to discuss on because I felt that Ruth Weyher, German actress looking as if she's trapped by the shadows are tormenting her and messing with her mind making her feel insecure of herself.