March | 2020 | Maria Dowsett

Maria Dowsett

Fashion Communication at the University of Brighton

Shoot One: In Amsterdam

The research leading up to this shoot focused on mannequins being photographed as real people. Having started from Guy Bourdin’s series ‘Walking Legs’ I knew I wanted a shoot where the mannequins were shown to be engaging in human-like behaviour and wanting to be disguised as such. My main inspiration for this was Peter Livingston’s…

Mannequins in Fashion and Art Reference 1

There were a lot more references involving mannequins than I had expected when looking into mannequins, art and photography. I also found a really helpful online article – https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mannequins-in-art_b_483333 – which gave me a lot of the references that I have looked at in my sketchbook. Cindy Sherman’s Sex Pictures Intended by the artist to shock…

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