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May 19, 2005
Portrait of the Artist
©photo by Kat Caverly, Self Portrait 1978
The most amazing thing about being a photographer is how complete the memories are when I look at my photographs. I remember every little thing, but particularly the feelings I had while I was making the photographs.
I have been doing self-portraits since I became a professional photographer and this is one of my favorites. Taken with daylight E4 transparency film in tungsten light, the yellow cast is natural. Seeing these portraits today made me yearn for film for the first time in many years.
©photo by Kat Caverly, Blue Boy 1976
I was fascinated by color infrared film and used it in a series of landscape photography. The result was a blue cast to the skin in daylight and an over all mystery to the portrait. Photographing people did not seem to come natural to me and for a few years I stuck to photographing things, places. But this session really spoke to me and from the time of this portrait I began an apprenticeship as a fashion photographer.
©photo by Kat Caverly, Silence a Dream 1977
I often saw models in unusual settings, the juxtaposition of beauty and decay, the magic of the interaction. I started to photograph ordinary people in the same manner as the fashion models. After all models were real people too.
I went on to specialize in Beauty photography from 1978-1980 and when I arrived in new York City in 1981 I took my camera to the streets. I knew my vision would be best expressed in the faces of everyday people in everyday situations. But I always used what I learned from my work in fashion and beauty to bring out the best in all of my subjects.
Posted by photocartoonist at May 19, 2005 11:10 PM