final project proposal

For my final project, I want to do a collection of photo recreations and reinterpretations of paintings. Looking to famous and well-known paintings for inspiration, I want to take scenes primarily with people (but also possibly just landscapes or cityscapes if I can find paintings recognizable and dynamic enough), set up those scenes, and photograph them. The goal would be to capture both the feeling conveyed in the original painting in the photograph, and also to make the photograph similar enough to the original painting that it's recognizable without considerable thought or hint.

This project would address both relationships and a time/moment aspect; documentary; photography (I could make them a slideshow for the final presentation, possibly/probably with the original paintings if that made more sense).