Japanese photographer Daisuke Takakura takes clone photography pretty seriously. His project "Monodramatic" features some models tens of times. Images are filled with people, however it is just same one person. He takes an image with one model in it and after that many other images with just model changing the place. Having all of that he is able to construct a photograph and make it look like there is a many clones in one image.
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| Daisuke Takakura, Crowd |
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| Daisuke Takakura, Encounters |
From the first sight it may look like there is just many people, who are dressed the same, but just when you look closer you can see that it is just one person. Takakura was inspired by style in theatre, which is called "monodrama". It usually involves just one actor, playing one character. "I began with this method but I decided to push it further. I wanted to explore the meeting of many such singular selves." (Daisuke Takakura, 2014)
These images attracts my attention, they strange and unusual in some way. Susan Bright in her book "Art photography now" said that staged photography often has a feeling of uncanny.
I like how photographed was able to use one subject to create a image full of people. He also was able to create a story in one image whilst having just one model.
Bibliography:
Takakura, D. and LensCulture (2014) Monodramatic - photographs and text by
Daisuke Takakura. Available at:
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/daisuke-takakura-monodramatic#slide-1
Bright, S. (2011) Art Photography Now. 2nd edn. United Kingdom: Thames & Hudson.
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