FUJIFILM STUDENT AWARDS-Lois Greenfield

Lois Greenfield is a photographer that works with bodies, in particular with dancers capturing the movements of the dancers. Her work has been compared to Henri Cartier-Bresson for capturing the elusive moment. She prefers to work outside the constraints of photography, letting her subjects improvise, often high risk movements.
This is an example of Greenfield's work, taken from her Airborne collection, here she has used a studio. This shows her ability to 'capture the moment'. With the dancers performing a circle in the air. This is another example of how the body can be used in an extreme way to create an image. The lighting she has used is soft, controlled in the studio setting, which is different from the natural lighting that has been used in previous artist's work, such as Minkkinen. I like the soft lighting and it doesn't matter to me weather it be created in studio or on location using natural lighting. 


This image was taken from Greenfield's collection Bodyscapes, which is the work I am most interested in. It comes away from the idea of the dance moves and concentrates more purely on the body and the positions it can be put into. This work takes me back to looking at the body in an abstract way. These images have also been taken in a studio setting with soft balanced lighting, producing little shadowing, just enough to produce detail in the shapes of the body. Similar to the work of Cunningham, Greenfield's work is much more about lines that can be created in the body, with the composition of the image. 

This image is taken from the same collection, Bodyscapes. It displays the use of lines in the body to create an abstract image I have described. I like how the body has been put into a position that could be seen as uncomfortable yet it appears to be very natural and flowing. The legs and the arms do remind me of a close-up shot of a plant or a tree, which flows on from the ideas of the plant work from Cunningham, putting the body into a shape similar to a natural object.


Greenfield's work uses the body in an extreme position, capturing a twisted, knotted or just odd position for the body to be in. Greenfield has used a studio to create these images, using a studio will be far better when coming to getting a nude model in my images as this will not only make the subject feel more comfortable but it will also help me control the lighting and background to create a simple image that focuses on the lines within the body as with the images above.