Loretta Lux

Wikipedia 

Loretta Lux (born 1969) was born in Dresden, East Germany and is a fine art photographer known for her surreal portraits of young children. She currently lives and works in Monaco.

Lux graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts in Munich in the 1990s, and debuted at the Yossi Milo gallery, New York in 2004. The show put both Yossi Milo and Loretta Lux on the map, selling out and setting prices never before seen from a new gallery.

In 2005, Lux received the Infinity Award for Art from the International Center of Photography. Her work has since been exhibited extensively abroad, including solo exhibitions in 2006 at the Fotomuseum Den Haag, The Netherlands, and the Sixth Moscow Photobiennale. Her work is included in numerous museums collections worldwide, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Fotomuseum, den Haag; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid and Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland, and National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan. She has had portfolios featured in numerous fine art magazines.

The artist executes her compositions using a combination of photography, painting and digital manipulation. Lux's work - at once alluring and self envigorating- usually features young children and is influenced by a variety of sources. She originally trained as a painter at Munich Academy of Art, and is influenced by painters such as Agnolo Bronzino, Diego Velázquez, Phillip Otto Runge. Lux also owes a debt to the famous Victorian photographic portraitists of childhood such as Julia Margaret Cameron and Lewis Carroll.

i think Loretta Lux's work is really strange, she makes young children look really creepy and doll like.  I don't know if i like her work on not. I think her works clever but i'm not sure if i like the way she makes young children look so fake and not real. 

Make up trial

I decided to experiment with different styles of make up. In the following photos i have enhanced her eyes by putting black eye shadow and false eye lashes. On the lips i've put bright pink to add a bit of color to her face. 

My Idea

For my album cover i'm thinking of taking a photo of my models face . Then editing it to make it seem like she's living  in a dream like world.  

i like the eye make up in the photo above because its really bold and stands out. The colors used really work for her skin and enhance her hair and eye color. 

i like the eye make up on the photo above because it makes her face look quite dream like. The pinks, blacks and gray's work really well together. The colors blend in well and give off a smooth look.  i think the black and grey smudged look would work really well on my model for the photo shoot as the colors would fit in well.

i love the false eye lashes above i think because they are so non realistic it works really well and makes there faces look high in fashion because they are so weird. These sort of strange false eyelashes would work really well in my shoot as my model will be looking down on a dream like world and the eyelashes would help to emphasize the dream and strangeness to the photo. 

i like the bold green eye make up i think it works really well. Your drawn too her eyes straight away. The red lipstick creates a good contrast between the two colors. I don't think these specific colors would look good in my shoot but possibly the style of them. 

i love the big dark false eye lashes. The dark eye make up behind emphasizes the eyelashes and makes them stand out more. I think this style of big dark eyes would world perfectly as it would really enhance her eyes and make them stand out, and seem really dream like.