108.

I'll steal you, Johanna,I'll steal you.  
Do they think that walls could hide you?
Even now, I'm at your window.
I am in the dark beside you,
Buried sweetly in your yellow hair!
I feel you, Johanna,And one day I'll steal you
!Til I'm with you then,I'm with you there,
Sweetly buried in your yellow hair!
~Anthony, Sweeney Todd

Johanna

Sweeney  Todd

Macey Mayfeild

107.

“When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.” 

~Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Marquise de Merteuil

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Annette Flores

106.

Through Athens I am thought as fair as she.

But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so.
He will not know what all but he do know.
And as he errs, doting on Hermia’s eyes,
So I, admiring of his qualities.
Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. 

~Helena

Helena

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Jenny Joslin

105.

"There is a willow grows aslant a brook, 

That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; 

There with fantastic garlands did she come 

Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples 

That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, 

But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them: 

There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds 

Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke; 

When down her weedy trophies and herself 

Fell in the weeping brook. 

Her clothes spread wide; 

And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up: 

Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes; 

As one incapable of her own distress, 

Or like a creature native and indued 

Unto that element: but long it could not be 

Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, 

Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay 

To muddy death."

~ Gertude

Ophelia

Hamlet

Ruthie Fish

104.

"She felt that, insignificant as it had appeared that morning, the position she held in Society was dear to her, and that she would not have the strength to change it for the degraded position of a woman who had forsaken husband and child and formed a union with her lover; that, however much she tried, she could not become stronger than herself."
~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Anna

Anna Karenina

Gwen  Albers

102.

Years before, when she was twenty-one, she wrote in her diary: "Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved--to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty should be used like that...."
~ Gloria

Gloria

The Beautiful and the Damned

Diana Diaz

98.

I noticed that her finger-nails were painted emerald green, a colour unfortunately chosen, for it called attention to her hands, which were much stained by cigarette smoking and as dirty as a little girl’s. She was dark….Her face was long and thin, powdered dead white. She had very large brown eyes which should have been darker, to match her hair and the pencil she used for her eyebrows 

~ Christopher Isherwood

Sally Bowles

Cabaret

Emily Vazquez

97.

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”  

-  Elizabeth Bennet

Elizabeth Bennet

Pride and Prejudice

Alice Allemano   

       In this project, I am taking characters from novels and plays and photographing them as would if I were to make a film or play based on the text.  It is something that I have always done unconsciously and it gives me an excuse to photograph actors. I am playing with the question of--where does the actor end and the character begin? In these photos, I want to photograph the characters, in an attempt loose the actor to the character. 

69.

     So, Karima came to visit me over the weekend - we didn't do much. We shot this and saw Porgy and Bess - which was SO GOOD, I could go on forever about Porgy and Bess...maybe I will in a later post... I haven't seen or shot her in so long so it was fun. These are heavily photoshopped I was too tired to get the light I wanted so I just did it later - bad habit, but the photos look fine now. 

44.

     These are from my semester project for seminar. I brought these actors into the studio and told them to say a monologue. This project was a small study in what I have been calling artificial emotion.  My intention was to photograph their ability to portray emotion that they weren't actually experiencing. I have recently become fascinated with actors and their ability to be a character, another person. I think it takes a certain kind of person to be an actor. I think one must be some what detached from oneself to be able to allow another person in - allow some one else's words to come naturally from one's mouth, some one else's gestures, posture, facial expressions - everything. It's a theory. That, or, completely self-aware and able to manipulate and change most everything about one's self. 

     All but one of the images I chose to include seem to be depressing. They did happy monologues too - I made them do happy but I didn't like them as much - it was quite unconscious. I found the others to be boring. Happy people, boring? I've never expressed such a thing. Nell's happy monologue was quite insane - something about a woman stealing a baby - it was deranged and, quite frankly, my favorite happy monologue - probably because it wasn't very happy. 

     I tried to mimic stage light with my lighting set up - I think that I was pretty successful. It's pretty simple and in its simplicity, I think it looks pedestrian. But I like how they came out still - I do not know what I do differently. 

     The title comes from one of my all time favorite movies, All About Eve. It is from a scene when Margot is talking about being replaced and one of the creatives refers to her as "a body with a voice."

     and can I just make it known that all of these people are far more attractive than they look in these pictures....I told told one of them that I would photoshop her face and totally forgot and I'm now out of time....I actually feel bad about it. 

41.

     These are images I took for Alex. She made a skirt and jacket for class and needed them to be photographed. In terms of photography, I don't much like these images but I think they serve their purpose in showing the garments. If we had had more time I believe I could have something creative for her, in that way, I feel like we kind of ripped her off - it's kind of pissing me off. But, again, she'll have images for her class. bleh! The seamless looks SO BAD.
     I like the outfit though, it reminds me of a modern, young version of the Desiree costume from the 2009 revival of "A Little Night Music."

33.

     Another studio assignment...Courtney and her hair. 

32.

      Oh, the things that happen when I can't find a model and we're both out of our minds sick.

31.

      These were for an assignment for my studio class: one hot light. I haven't shot Alex in forever. It was really last minute. She had just come from class, as had I. I had no vision so we just winged it - it ended up creepy and in the end, I like how they came out.