I chose this image because I find it fascinating how one of Mapplethorpe's photographs can portray so much emotion when the subject has her eyes closed, they say eyes are the window to the soul and mind and you can always tell someones feelings through their eyes however Mapplethorpe manages to portray a huge amount of emotion through his portrait.
I chose this image because I love the way Mapplethorpe has captured his subject here; I like the way the subject is holding his cane up to the camera so that the main focus is technically on his hand and cane rather than his face. This is done by putting the cane in the foreground with the hand and the face and body of the subject in the background.
I love the way Robert Mapplethorpe centres the photograph around the subjects facial features and focuses on the eyes. The subject is mirrored extremely evenly both left and right, the hands match and the eyes match this adds depth to the photograph. The hands down the side of the subjects face act as leading lines.
I chose to study this photograph because I love the way Mapplethorpe has used the simplicity of a portrait to convey so much emotion. Robert Mapplethorpe has cleverly made the eyes the central point of the photograph and therefore the main focus. He somehow manages to convey huge amounts of emotion purely through the eyes of his subject.
In this photo; similar to the one before this, Mapplethorpe has made his subjects eyes a main part of the photograph which again conveys huge amounts of emotion.
As with the previous photo's Mapplethorpe has focused on the eyes of his subject to convey emotion however I feel in this photo it is hard to tell what the model is thinking, her emotions seem guarded despite the open nature of the photograph, I think her arms around her neck act as an unspoken guard for her emotions so it is much more difficult to see what she is thinking.
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