David Williams is great at framing
his subjects with light and color. In all three portraits I believe he employs
a smaller aperture or higher F-stop in order to achieve a deeper depth of
field. This brings out the detail in the colorful items that help frame the
subjects. In all three of the images he places the subjects near the middle of
the frame so the viewer knows what the main focus is and this also leaves more
room around the subjects to frame them with light and color. You can see this
done beautifully in the first image. Here we can see how the blue and red
objects in the kitchen have formed an almost perfect rectangular frame around
the subjects. This can be seen again in
the second image where the tan objects have created a perfect triangular frame
of the subjects. Lastly, you can tell from the first and third image uses the
corners of objects to point to his subjects
Conceptually,
I think he did chose to do something that breaks stereotypes. He is going
against the crazy cat lady stereotype by showing men in what seems to be their
natural settings or as I like to call them, “man caves” with their cat or
rather, their companion. I think it’s interesting because popular culture tends
to associate cats primarily with feminine friendship. David Williams set out to
challenge that idea, potentially even changing the perception of culture. This
is something that I find very intriguing and even professor Rocheleau has said
it is something we should all strive to do.
I can see how doing something like this can become very relevant as many
people can relate to the fact that they’ve never heard about crazy cat men.
As a male
who owns and really cares for his cat, I appreciate what David Williams has
done by making these pictures. Sure I don’t see myself as a crazy cat dude but
I must admit I am crazy in love with my cat. I really admire how in the second
image you can see how the man’s life is a mess of with his own hygiene
products, clothes etc. mixed with the cat’s litter and litter box (feline
hygiene products). The way each image is made helps me see the companionship
and sense the connectivity between the man, his cat, and their shared
environment.
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