Art I'm Making: New Nudes (Summer 2011)

Over the middle part of the summer I had the opportunity to work with a new model for the first time in a long time. I made hundreds of photographs of this unusually beautiful young woman using a traditional camera with black and white film, using a digital SLR, and also using the camera in my original iPhone. I love the way the iPhone camera "fails" in low-light situations, creating pictures with a lot of noise and often with ghost-like duplications where there has been movement. The iPhone photos have a dreamy quality that I like very much--as in the photo above.

Photographs I'm Making: iPhone Camera Nudes

I spent Saturday morning working with a new model. Just experimenting, I did some shots of her with my iPhone as she moved around the studio. The low-tech faults of the phone made for some interesting images. I post one here as an example. This is not especially good. It's just one that isn't in much danger of being censored. I see possibilities here, though. Something about the images reminds me of Franz Marc--the arc-like lines, I suppose. I now look forward to an entire session of shooting iPhone nudes sometime soon.