Assignment 2: Portrait Recreation

     Almost at the very beginning of my search I came across this striking image of a woman that I knew I wanted to recreate. I kept looking, but I kept coming back to this image. However, I wasn't sure how I could make it mean more than simply a recreation.
Here is the image by Aneta Grzeszykowska.

Aneta Grzeszykowska's "Untitled Film Still #16",  2006

   After some research, I found that this image was actually a recreation of another image by a woman Cindy Sherman.
Here is her image.

Cindy Sherman's "Untitled Film Still #16", 1978

    The photo is part of her "Film Stills" series, which all feature a woman in a different role, which resemble women characters of B-movies of the time. The idea behind this series was that women aren't biologically programmed to be a certain way, but rather adapt to their circumstances. The series shows many different types of woman acting out many different (generally stereotypical) roles.
Aneta Grzeszykowska had kept the idea alive by recreating Sherman's series, and I thought it would be an honor to continue the tradition. So essentially I would be making a remake of a remake of a remake. Whoa!
    As you can see, Grzeszykowska kept very closely to the original image in her composition, hairstyle, makeup, etc. I found both images very striking and beautiful and tried to get close to both images, with a sort of hybrid of each, but also updating the image to make it portray more of the current woman. I couldn't quite get the positioning and angle right,  but I did the best I could. I don't think my image functions as well as theirs do, but of course I could always reshoot. I think if I did decide to redo it, I would just try a different position, as if it was the scene before or after- I think that would be more successful.
Here is my remake.