Power – Marvels
November 22, 2008
Marvels is the title of a Marvel published comic book ten years ago that was based around the idea of a photographer catching the great adventures on film of the Marvel superheroes. The idea of the book was to show people’s reactions to the events that happen around Manhattan to do with the superheroes that operate in the city. After this book there was rumors of Marvel commissioning a photography project to re-create this project on film. Images of the superheroes around the city performing their acts of good being captured by a real photographer.
What I want to do is to take this idea and change it slightly. I want to have another go at staging photographs and use this as my inspiration. The photographs would be taking people and making them look like they are about to perform heroics but these heroics would not be the heroics you see in the comic books. I’m talking about heroic acts that some people would do in day to day life but we take for granted. Someone holding the door open for someone else, someone carrying an old lady’s shopping for them, a person voting and so on and so forth. I think to amplify the fact that this is based around the idea of power I could make my subjects wear masks and costumes and so on,
This is power because it is the power to help people. To make people’s lives better is something that all people should strive for. The person with the most power in the world until recently was George W. Bush. His aim should have been to help the people of his country and instead he decided to inflict an incredible amount of pain and suffering on not only his own people but other people in different regions in the world. The new President of the United States is Barack Obama, He says he wants to undo all the things wrong that Bush did and make life better for people throughout the world. Obviously this is massively different to what I want to take pictures of but imagine if everyone all of the world did one nice thing for someone else everyday. Its that whole idea of the “Pass it on” theory. If someone does something nice for someone and then they do something for someone else sooner or later everyone everywhere will be doing nice things for each other making the world a better place.
