I chose the book 'Revelator: The Neuromancer' by William Control.
The blurb reads 'Through the madness i shuffle. A wretched shell of the man i was when her love possessed me. Lucifer has given me one change of redemption. I am compelled to drag myself to the dusty finish line. Compelled by the love i have somewhere in my drowning heart and the curiosity of a new adventure that will one day surely kill me.'
The book is essentially filled with death and sex.
I wanted my photograph to obviously represent this but not give too much away.
Before i had decided what i was going to photograph, i had already decided i wanted the photograph to be quite dark, in terms of lighting. And to be in black and white. As i felt this would be quite fitting for the book and for the author.
The book has quite a niche audience, and so i wanted my photograph to be fitting to that. It doesn't have to be something that everybody will like or be drawn to but will appeal to the necessary audience.
I felt it was important i used a bed in my photograph to represent the sexual activity and nature in the book.
I also wanted a weapon to represent the death/murder aspect of the book. Obviously getting hold of a weapon is a slight problem. So i used a kitchen knife. The kitchen knife may also carry connotation relating to fetish. Again going back to the sexual aspect of the book.
I then threw in some under wear just to make it look more intriguing and as if something may have happened.
I took a few photographs as i wasn't really sure on which composition would look best. I used different levels of zoom, and different amounts/ items of clothing to see what look best. I tried to mess up the bed a bit to make it look as if it had been used
Essentially, i think the last picture is my favourite, and is what i would use for my front cover.
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