Robert Rodriguez A Sin City

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Just for fun, you need a photographer to take a picture of you using deep focus, at a Dutch angle, and place you asymmetrically in the middleground. And they juxtapose you with either the theme of the photograph, or take the photograph in black and white but have you in color. Like Lar’s Europa or Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City. So the image is in black and white (maybe you are too), but you or a symbol(s) in the mise en scène is in color. This draws the initial focus of the viewer, but creates nice contrast within the image. Still playing with a level of voyeurism, but the camera is self –aware of that fact, so the angle would either be low, placing you in a position of power, or high, making the viewer omniscient. But the humor comes from

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