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Pretty Little Masks

Portraits of Beauty and Perfection: The issue for any modern day photographer is that the type of perfection required by their job is nearly always an impossibility without using technology to manipulate the photographs.

The process used to create the raw content in Pretty Little Masks is, by now, nearly an industry standard technique which involves creating a “masking” layer in Photoshop and manually drawing on this layer to soften facial features. This technique helps remove unsightly lines and blemishes, creating the "perfect" skin.

These images contain the "masking" layer alone, in effect showing only what has been made 'perfect' about these models. Insofar as our society deems it today, Pretty Little Masks are portraits of beauty and perfection.

In the simplest of terms, Pretty Little Masks exposes the raw, eerie, and sometimes unsightly reality of our obsession with perfection.

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Imagery

Below are a few samples of the Pretty Little Masks prints. Click on any one to see larger views in the gallery.

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Musicians

The musical element of Pretty Little Masks evokes personal feelings and creates an environment that stimulates multiple senses.

The musicians are asked to use two pieces of information to create a blanket of sounds: a loose abstraction of ideas created by the artist, and the mask image itself.

Below are sample Adobe Flash presentations of the Pretty Little Musicians:

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For More Information

For the latest on the Pretty Little Masks project, contact Patrick Lydon:
patrick@lydonphoto.com
408.799.3890