Lecture SEVEN// Celebrity Culture

Julia Magret Cameron

Marina "she said I am aweary, aweary". 1885

Christiana and her sister were very well known in sociaty. This model here has been a model in many famous pieces. 

The Enlgish poet Alfred Lord Tennyson. The image has a soft feel. more celebrities of the day were given different treatment photographically 

The moving pictures, this was very important. Louis Le Prince was the inventor who lived in Leeds. The picture above is of Leeds bridge in 1888. 

The Artist '2011' - A modern movie that decided to be a silent movie

Heres some examples of early celebrities in films. Josephine Baker (1906-1975). Baker costumed for the Danse banane. 

She has a jewish husband and a pet cheetah! Which sometimes escaped into the orchestra pit sometimes. She was known to spy on the Nazi's with her act. She has two sides to her, here public side and her more secret agent side.

Here, Beyonce is wearing the same sort of skirt as Josephine Baker. Fashion rocks os more than an event. We are a unique brand. 

The Golden Age of Hollywood. 'The Jazz Singer" Between 1927 and 1960

Clark Gable (above), this is really were the golden age of holloywood starts. This guy was seen as the 'King of Hollywood'. He was said to be an American Hero, he served in the Second World War.1

Bette Davis. She was known to play unlikable characters.She ended up marrying a man who said he didn't know who she was! She has this strange canteen that was provided for US soldiers, these soldiers would thewn be waited on by other celebrities.  In 1945 this was looked upon as quite an odd thing.

Marilyn Monroe, she was enjoyed for her physical presence, her very much flirty acted became very well known. We have a sense of her private life coming through her life in film, and almost being the thing that killed her? Either way these event freeze her in history, we get this kind of embarkment of her eternal life in memory. 

Andrey Flacks Marilyn (1977) 

We get the repeat of Maryiln in the page here and in the left hand side of the image. 

ANDY WARHOL- Elvis Presley again being represented. Warhol looked upon celebrities as products, Hollywood being a 'machine that churns out celebrities. 

Warhol said 'Everybody has their 15 seconds of fame'. He encouraged people to hangout at the factory. In this image we have many different kind of people. The creation of stars

John F Kennedy- Celebrity politician, youth and good looks. His death in 1963 was not filmed by TV camera but by the public. This is said to be the most valuable film very made.

Her face becomes a mask of endlessly repeated in publicity and in the news. It makes her compelling. 

Advent of Television- John Logie Baird's demonstration of televised moving images. The Golden Age begins

The Jacksons- This was the start of people being influenced by what they saw on the television 

Michael Jackson then became the king of pop. The changes of Michael's appearance was seen as a reaction to his youth, his father mainly. He wanted to look less like his father.

Madonna- Material Girl in 1985. She changed her image for every tour and for every album.

In the 1980s we are in the decade of loads of money. It was seen as a mark of success by showing your wealth openly.

She makes herself iconic by reminding the public of Marilyn,

Still from the video for Vogue (1990)

This was seen as a post modern recycle from the part,  Then we go on to Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga at the brits 2010, she always has a different image when being seen in the public.

Here Lady Gaga is wearing a very similar costume to Madonna, what is the meaning of all this? What does it mean? A writer suggests that all of this dressing up is a feminist statement. "If we don;t stand up for our rights soon we're going to have as much right as the meat on our bones. And I am not a piece of meat.". 

Jana Sterbak's meat dress (1987)

This elevates her appearance to art. 

Barak Obama.

In the epic by Shepard fairy, Obama is seen as a 'pop president' 

Youtube was created in February 2005. Showcases self-made celebrities eg. Amber Lee Erringer. She sings a song called I have a crush on Obama. 

Princess Diana 1981. Represents innocence and beauty as the truth of her marriage to Charles emerges. She was also seen as a fitting match to Charles, she started to reinvent her self.

This photo by Mario Testino was the beginning of the new Diana, She wants to change the face of her image.

The Paparazzi was said to be the blame of her death in 1997. But our demand for 'real life' images of celebrities creates market for these images which command huge finical awards.

Whitney Houstons Funeral 2012, this was on TV because so many pople wanted to be a part of saying goodbye.

David Beckham, the change of an ordinary council house boy to becoming a inspirational figure across the world. Contemporary 'Everyman'

-Imitation of 'Celebrity'

Dressing up as Elvis Presley...theres an industry of dressing up as celebrities.

Alison Jackson Private 2004, here we have secret photos of celebrities. Images of celebs you would really not expect to see. She uses these methods that a longer lens has been used as if she is spying. In the Beck's images you can see the frame of the door and indeed the door which adds to the secrecy. 

As seen on stars. ASOS, buy clothes that will make you look like celebrities. 

Pierre & Giles- Turning celebrities into God like people. Hyper real, studio shot photos.

Shica and Family

David Lachepelle 'Jesus is my homeboy'

Juan de Juances.

Alexander Mcqueen and Isabelle Blow 1996- Documentary about his life and suicide.  

Imagery from the tarot- This is what people think Alex got his inspiration from.

John Stezaker from marriage series 2006. 

Since 2006, TWITTER, The way we get in contact with celebrities, Details of their home and private life. Get to know them as 'real people. Ebay- Elvis's Hair, $115,120! 

-Guy Debord's book 'Society of the Spectacle

Debords sees this passive viewing as a replacement of real life.

KONY 2012- Includes 20 different culture makers, they were involved to get more people around the world into the charity.  The film maker wants to make KONY famous as to get him known and then taken down. The maker as a break down where he went crazy and has a nervous breakdown. 

Spectacle vs Activism

Responsive// 'Wind in the Willows" Cover Design Research

The job this cover is to appeal to a young audience but also appeal to an older audience. This could be quite tricky. The brief also says to work with type not image. I managed to find a design for this 2013 competition which I guess is quite useful, shame that its on the internet already. Must suck to be that designer. However, it gives ma good chance to see what I might be up against, who knows, people might got on to use this as their main source of matieral. Something I will defiantly not do.

Reuben Alghali

Overall a beautiful design with great potential. I thank Lorene when I say this but there is an error on this book cover. Whilst designing my Design for Print info pack, Lorene taught me about the dreaded 'Widower'. The Widower is when a letter is left out in the open by itself and it makes a paragraph of text look some what wrong. Look at the third line of the main bulk of text, after Ratty there is a single 'a' after the comer. This is a widower. Going back to the design of the cover, I mainly like the triangles of colour which obviously represent the seasons and the countryside. I'm not too keen on the font used for the main title. This seems to be a style of font designers are using a lot now.

Stephanie Layton 

This design by Stephanie Layton I came across by chance and has got me thinking about possible design ideas. From first glance it does appear to me to be expectable as a cover for a children's book. The colours and illustration remind me strangely of the hungry hungry caterpillar.