'Destroy' - By Rankin
To celebrate Youth Music's 10th Birthday, celebrated photographer Ian Rankin asked 70 musicians and visual artists to 'destroy' their own portraits.
The participants included Joe Strummer, Ian Brown, Marianne Faithfull, Andre 3000, Michael Stipe and Kylie Minogue as well as bands like Pete and the Pirates, The Enemy and The View.
The artists destroyed their portraits in different ways... Florence Welch drew over her portrait with a metallic pen, inspired by her school days of decorating photos from magazines, Debbie Harry burnt, masked out, painted and stitched-up her picture to make a series of six 'destroyed' portraits.
Damien Hirst painted over the portrait of Joe Strummer. When asked about this approach he said,
“I tried to keep it about him as a person. I kept looking at the thing on the hand, where it said ‘Joe’. Joe Strummer was a great guy who I met, who was much more of a hero in real life. You don’t meet many people like that,”
The participants included Joe Strummer, Ian Brown, Marianne Faithfull, Andre 3000, Michael Stipe and Kylie Minogue as well as bands like Pete and the Pirates, The Enemy and The View.
The artists destroyed their portraits in different ways... Florence Welch drew over her portrait with a metallic pen, inspired by her school days of decorating photos from magazines, Debbie Harry burnt, masked out, painted and stitched-up her picture to make a series of six 'destroyed' portraits.
Damien Hirst painted over the portrait of Joe Strummer. When asked about this approach he said,
“I tried to keep it about him as a person. I kept looking at the thing on the hand, where it said ‘Joe’. Joe Strummer was a great guy who I met, who was much more of a hero in real life. You don’t meet many people like that,”
Rankin: Destroy Your Image! from Gestalten on Vimeo. |
Watch the clip and make a mindmap. Answer the following questions...
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Task
Create a series of images using Rankin's Destroy series as inspiration. The 6 images that you will be destroying will be taken from your 'headshot photoshoot'. These will be presented in the format of a zine, that you will construct yourself. Choose 6 from the list of destroy methods.