Guy Bourdin Studies

1. Guy Bourdin
Nyle Amin

2. About Bourdin
Guy Bourdin was a fashion photographer however, it can be said
that his images could be seen as pornographic as he uses women
and their bodies. He also uses the colour red in his images and
there are many connotations with this colour such as sexual
promiscuity or frustration, danger and anger. This is why it is a
popular belief that Bourdin hated women as his models are
lifeless and mostly naked. In my opinion, I believe that Bourdin
could have been a feminist as in one of his images a
woman is urinating on a picture of a man
and in another, a woman is throwing food at a
man as well as celebrating the female body.
Considering the era that he was photographing,
these images are very shocking

3. To emulate this image, I used Barbie dolls instead of live
models because they, like the models in the original image,
are lifeless and maybe as toys or objects. I used a high ISO
to give the image a grainy finish and I used Photoshop to
crop the image
Aperture: f/7.0
Shutter Speed:
1/250
ISO: 6400

4. I uses a Barbie doll to take this image and I used nail
varnish for the blood. On Photoshop, I used the diffuse
glow filter to to make the image grainy and then
adjusted the exposure.
Aperture: f/4.8
Shutter Speed:
1/100
ISO: 400

5. In my opinion, this is one of the only Bourdin that is
fashion related.
I reversed the image so that there were white shoes on a
black background
I chose the images
from the internet. I
‘magic lasso’ed around
the shoe and then
used the ‘move’ tool
to drag it onto the
base image. I then
duplicated the new
layer and horizontally
flipped the shoe.