A painter and photographer of 'larger than life' proportions, Chuck made his fame as a photorealist, creating large scale portraits of various subjects, from all walks of life, portraying them in such a way that the viewer has no choice but to be intrigued and trapped my the hypnotic gaze of all of his images.
Chuck's photographs all give the viewer the ability to climb into the minds of the subject and to feel their emotions, almost enough to reach out and touch their minds.
Chuck's images all have a very 'earthy' feel to them, a real exposed and natural aura that reveals everything that is to be or see in the image
Chuck close has inspired my 2nd images as it is my intentions to portray my subjects so bare, open and honest. Through gritted teeth and popping veins i plan to portray my subject in an overpowering intimidating way, like Chuck uses size and incredible details, enabling the viewer to look deep into the subject i intend to create a similar yet intimidating atmosphere in my subject.
Dave Hill
Hill uses extreme photoshopping techniques mixed with incredible shows of role play and heart felt acting from all of his subjects to create wondrously complex portraits, most of which creating a feel of a movie type scene. Dave produced a series of images based on wrestlers, in which they are performing various acts of ferocity and strength, in which the power of the wrestler in the ring can almost be read by the depicted act e.g.
These 3 images depicting 3 various wrestlers is very suggestive to the power and prowess of the subject;
Subject 1 is depicted statically withstanding the impact from a giant truck, while subject 2 is taking the impact of a generic car, alot smaller than the truck, with less force, the subject is also the smallest with less apparent animosity and intimidation. Subject 3, the largest, sporting the most fierce and aggressive look about him, withstanding the most significantly incredible force of the 3 subjects, a train, known to generally travel at incredible speeds and built like a tank, known to cause imminent death at any such impact, yet merely cushioned by the strength and power of such an incredibly strong being.
The inspiration i've derived from Dave, i will incorporate into my 2nd images of my subjects in the form of the animosity, the ferocity of the subject, sporting a crisp, powerful and intimidating appearance of scene and subject. I will use the muscular bulk, alongside the ferocity portrayed by my subject in order to create an intimidating scene of which to intimidate and confuse the viewer.
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