Video: One is good, two is better: double portraits by Dan Mountford
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Many talented photographers have to take hundreds of shots to get a decent one, and every good shot is worth its weight in gold. But as they say, one is good and two is better, and this saying is fully supported by Dan Mountford, who in his works combines two successful shots, inventing a completely new plot and turning ordinary photography into conceptual work.
Whatever you say, Briton Dan Mountford is a savvy guy. Indeed, what could be easier on the one hand and more interesting on the other, than combining something seemingly incompatible. Here is a photo of a silhouette of a man, here is a photo of an ashtray, taken separately, which are good, but rather commonplace shots. But one has only to include the principle “ one is good and two is better ”And combine these works, how you get something that you want to tell your friends about.
Usually collage specialists managed to combine the incompatible. That there are only photo collages of different ages from Bobby Neil Adams, each of which shows a portrait of one person, but there is a difference of 20 years between the halves of his or her face, or even more. Or, for example, photo collages from the Ukrainian Daniil Polevoy, who places famous characters in different historical periods. What Dan Mountford does is not exactly collages, but the essence of his works is the same: to combine in one work what, it would seem, is impossible to combine …
As for Dan himself, he is not yet very well known in wide circles, he has not even got hold of his own website yet, making do with a page on flickr. He lives in the UK, graduated from the University of Brighton (or is still studying there, it is not entirely clear), specializes in illustrations and graphic design.
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