These images again like Duane Michals are very intimate. However all the images here are in bright and even perhaps slightly gaudy colours. The colour in the images displays different emotions for example in the first image we see the green engulfs most of the image which could signify envy against the women looking back in the mirror. Image two shows a light blue colour which could be a calming colour as the woman is asleep. Image three again has the green with the red which could show the tension between the woman and the man who is smoking beneath her. The final image is a bright pink with red colour which could signify passion and sex. We can see the woman's bottom on show however we also see a light pink elephant above the bed which seems to bring some sort of innocence to the image. All the images don't actually show a person straight on and its only sides of the body or parts such as images three and four. All the images are studio styled images being contrived by the photographer which created a slightly uneasy feel to the image knowing that someone has planned this type of image, making Michals quite controversial.
Another photographer that photographed groundbreaking images was Helmut Newton. He also worked around the time of Guy Bourdin in the fashion industry however added many of his new ideas to change the industry.
This image is of particular interest as the woman sitting down is in fact Newton's wife. The image has a superb composition as the subjects elbow directs the eye straight towards the wife. Also there is some humour in the image with the boredom on the wife's face and also the trench coat worn by Newton which is rather strange. Also the legs that are protruding from the left side of the image, they have no clear body attached. The studio set up is a classic one and photographing an ideal studio set up and creating an image from it makes the photograph much more playful yet still quite revealing of the photographer himself and different.
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